Jean L. Breen

Jean L. Breen

AGE: 87 • Raritan Twp.

Jean L. Breen, age 87 years, of Raritan Township, NJ, died on Monday, March 14, 2011 in Southwest Vermont Medical Center, Bennington, VT. Born in Clydebank, Scotland, December 9, 1923, daughter of the late John and Mary Morton Ferguson, she had lived in Raritan Township for the past twenty-eight years, having formerly lived in Clover Hill, NJ for twelve years. Her home in Clydebank, Scotland, was bombed and destroyed in a German Air Raid seventy years on March 14, 1941. A former product tester for Union Carbide, Piscataway, NJ, she was the widow of Thomas Breen who died in 1993.

Surviving are a son, and daughter-in-law, John and Lorraine Breen of North Bennington, VT; a grandson, David Breen of Flemington, NJ; a sister, Rena Davidson of Sidney, Australia; four sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Ferguson of Sydney, Australia, Elizabeth Montgomery of Philadelphia, PA, Mary Gallagher in Scotland and Ella Trathen in England; a brother-in-law, Donald Soutar of Sidney, Australia; her cousins, Donald and Karen Hepburn of Ringoes, NJ; and several beloved nieces and nephews.

Funeral Services will be held on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home, 147 Main Street, Flemington, NJ. Interment will follow in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Capner Street, Flemington, NJ. There will be no calling hours. Please visit www.holcombefisher.com for further information or to send condolences.