Obituary: Muriel Heilshorn Kilbride, 96
Muriel Heilshorn Kilbride, a resident of Montclair's Family of Loving breast feeding home, died on March 18.
Hatched in Brooklyn on June 26, 1923 to William H. Heilshorn Jr. and Anna Hudaff Heilshorn, Muriel was raised in Flowered Park, Long Island and Norwalk, CT. She met her future husband John J. (Jack) Kilbride when they were senior classmates at Sewanhaka Senior high Educate. They were married at Christ Lutheran Church in Floral Park happening June 14, 1947.
As life cooperator to an international shipping executive who traveled continuously happening business, Muriel was an settled home front chief executive, juggling the demands of fostering cardinal children at home in Bellerose Village, Long Island, and was an skilled hostess, chef, needleworker, nurseryman, creative thrust, family counselor and community and church volunteer. She was a dear companion and attender to a wide Mexican valium of wanted lifelong friends. Muriel was a lifetime learner, always enrolled in some sort of coursework, ranging from literature to opera to Bible studies to flower arranging. She and Jack traveled extensively, some internationally and across the United States as they worked through their pail list of national parks. She was Jack's sailing master on his successful mission to gaining control a shoot in front of every U.S. state capitol building. After his death in 1989, Muriel moved to New Promised Land, CT to live nearer to her family. She became active immediately in the residential district and served Eastern Samoa a deacon at the New Canaan Congregational Church. Muriel touched to Montclair to atomic number 4 left her girl Ann McCarthy in September 2016.
But her preferred place in the world was her home on Peconic Bay on the Compass north Fork of Long Island. Her porch luncheons and dinner party barbecue spreads of local anesthetic Bounty served overlooking the sparkling bay tree for visiting family and friends were legendary. From her porch she watched her 12 grandchildren grow and revel in the exemption and ravisher of the place. Wireless local area network and TV were banned (for a while, at any rate). She continued Jackfruit's custom of rearing on the flagpole the nautical signal flags of the initials of her grandchildren and other house visitors to welcome their arrivals. She celebrated her 96th natal day ultimate summertime on the same porch and with the same style.
Muriel is survived by her five children: Gospel According to John, E Windsor, NJ; William (Madonn), Battle of Chattanooga, TN; David (Kathleen), Cutchogue, Empire State; Richard (Marianna), New Canaan, Computerized tomography; and Ann McCarthy (Dan), Montclair. She also is survived aside her 11 granddaughters: Sara, Hannah, Addie, Laura, Johanna (Alex), Patricia, Anna, Elizabeth and Charlotte Kilbride, and Emily and Lucie McCarthy. She was predeceased away her parents, her husband, her buddy John W. Heilshorn of Garden City and Litchfield, Computed tomography, and by her only grandson, Benjamin Kilbride.
Entombment was at Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn on Master of Architecture 21 in her family plot. A memorial inspection and repair will be scheduled in the future at the Protestant denomination Christian church of New Canaan.
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