Newton Terzian Obituary (1917 - 2011)

Mr. Newton Terzian, 94, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, July 21 in West Caldwell, New Jersey. Services will be held in Hinman Hall, Crane's Mill, 459 Passaic Avenue, West Caldwell on Sunday, July 24 at 1 PM. Visiting in the Prout Funeral Home, (www.proutfuneralhome.com) 370 Bloomfield Avenue, Verona, New Jersey on Saturday from 4 to 7 PM. Mr. Terzian is the husband of the late Mable Gray Terzian to whom he was married for 45 years, father of Debra Mason and her husband Joseph and Judith Bauer and her husband William. He was the proud grandfather of Christopher, Matthew, and Corey Mason. Mr. Terzian was born in Red Bank, New Jersey in 1917 where he grew up living in a home on the Navasink River. He graduated from Red Bank High School in 1935. He was a 1939 graduate of Indiana University and received a MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Terzian served in the Army from 1942 until 1946. He was Vice President of Investments for New York Life Insurance Company in NYC where he worked for 35 years, retiring in 1985. Mr. Terzian and his wife lived with their daughters in Morristown before moving to Crane's Mill in West Caldwell in 2000 where he made a larger number of friends, whom he felt privileged to know. He enjoyed traveling with his wife and friends, family vacations in Maine, attending his grandsons' sporting events, and spending time with his daughters and their families. Mr. Terzian was known as "Poppy" by everyone that knew him. He will be dearly missed. A donation in memory of Newton may be made to The Hunger Memorial Fund, c/o Grace Presbyterian Church, 153 Grove Street, Montclair, New Jersey 07042.