Janet graduated from Vassar College in 1954 with a B.A. An only child, Janet grew up on the Vassar campus with a group of faculty children who enjoyed a carefree, unstructured childhood and remained close friends throughout their lives. The family moved to Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1935 when her father took a professorship at Vassar College. Paul, Minnesota, where her father was completing a PhD in Chemistry. Janet was born to Celestia (nee Davidson) and Edward R. Longtime Princeton resident Janet Townsend passed away on Septemwith her three daughters by her side. Post Road, Princeton Junction, NJ, 08550 (memo line: Faith Yim Celebration) are kindly requested. In lieu of flowers, donations by check to The Friends of the West Windsor Library, 333 N. All who knew Faith and would like to gather to remember her are welcome. on Saturday, September 16, at the Present Day Club, 72 Stockton Street, Princeton. Above all, Faith loved participating and sharing in the lives of her grandchildren.Ī Celebration of Life is scheduled for 2 p.m. She enjoyed printmaking and photography and enthusiastically used Facebook to connect with people from her past and present. She was a lifelong lover of animals, especially her many cats over the years. Faith spoke with pride on seeing children from her reading and arts programs move on to high school and college years later, they and their parents would see her around town and thank her.įaith enjoyed traveling, including several trips to Japan, Korea, and Canada. She spearheaded and commissioned the library’s large “Rain Forest Mural” by Ilya Spirin and was fond of creating programs that responded to the changing demographics of the region, including Chinese New Year and Diwali.
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She returned to work full time at the Mercer County Library System in 1987, becoming head children’s librarian at the West Windsor branch before retiring in 2008. She later obtained a master of library science degree from Simmons College (Boston) and did graduate work in art history at Princeton University.įaith worked as an illustrator in Boston and then as a substitute teacher in the Princeton Regional School system while raising her children. It was at the University of Washington (Seattle) where she met her future husband, Woongsoon Michael Yim, graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Growing up on her parents’ wheat farm, she attended the Bonnie View School, a one-room schoolhouse, and Raymond High School. She was a resident of Princeton for 60 years until her move to Atria Senior Living in Riverdale, NY, in March 2023.įaith was born in Raymond, Alberta (Canada), on February 10, 1933, to Ishimatsu and Mitsue Sugimoto, who had emigrated from Nagoya, Japan.
She is predeceased by her husband Michael, a research scientist at RCA’s David Sarnoff Research Center. Setsuko Faith Yim of Princeton, NJ, passed away peacefully on August 20, 2023, at age 90.įaith is survived by her four children and their spouses: Helene, Mark (Peter Hare), David (Linda Yim), and Leila (Richard Surratt) and five grandchildren: Leah, Michael, and Alex Surratt Michael Yim and Emi Hare-Yim.
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