Individual Details

Marriage

Name: Robert Goheen
of Princeton, New Jersey, student born India
Father Robert born India
Mother Anna Ewing born, India
Spouse: Anne Ewing of Wilmington, Delaware, single
Born Wilmington Delaware
Father James Thomas Skelly born Tennessee
Mother Gertrude McFarland born North Carolina
Witness Donald C Platton of New York City
and Catharing Skelly Wheelock of Wilmington
Film Number: 002025124

Death

Margaret Skelly Goheen died at home surrounded by her loving family on Sunday, January 25th, 2015. She was born in 1919 in Wilmington, Delaware to James Thomas and Gertrude McFarland Skelly, the 5th of 6 siblings. Margaret graduated from The Tower Hill School in Wilmington and went on to matriculate at Vassar College, graduating from there with the class of 1941. Shortly afterwards she met and married Robert F. Goheen, and they enjoyed the next 67 years together during which she provided invaluable support and guidance throughout his distinguished career. They moved to Princeton in 1945 and in 1959 purchased a summer home in Chatham, MA where the family gathered to sail, fish, swim, play golf and tennis and enjoy each other's company.
She is survived by her six children: Anne Goheen Crane, Trudi Goheen Swain, Stephen Goheen, Megan Goheen Lower, Elizabeth Goheen and Charles Goheen, 18 grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren. Throughout her life she was a committed and dedicated volunteer, serving on boards and committees for the Princeton University's Isabella McCosh Infirmary, The Princeton University Art Museum, The Aquinas Institute, Princeton YWCA, Stuart Country Day School and The Princeton Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which honored her in 2009. She was also active with the Vassar College Alumnae Association and on the Board of The Bank Street School of Education.A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday, January 30th, 2015 at 11:00am in the Princeton University Chapel. Burial will follow in the Princeton University President's Plot in the Princeton Cemetery.Arrangements are under the direction of the Mather-Hodge Funeral Home, Princeton.