Hildegard Martha Hayford

Hildegard Jung was born in Neuhaus, Silesia, Germany, where her family owned a farm. Her father did not survive WW2. The family: mother Hildegard, brother Georg, sister Wally and Hildegard were relocated as refugees to Loxstedt Germany. Hilde emigrated to the United States in 1956 where she met and married her husband, Robert S. Hayford. She was widowed in 2009.

The Hayfords lived in New Vernon, Morristown, and then moved to Toms River, New Jersey

In Germany Hildegard was apprenticed in retail business. When she emigrated, she worked for the Badenhausen family in Brookside, NJ. as a housekeeper, and then at AT&T in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, as a cook.

She was an avid cook and baker. Some of her soup recipes are noted in the Meyersville Grange winning soup contest recipe book.

On the 8th of December Hildegard fell and sustained a head and brain bleeding injury. She succumbed to cardiac arrest at the Hampton Ridge Rehabilitation Facility on January 18.

Hildegard will be laid to rest at the Saint Maximilian Kolbe Church Mausoleum, Toms River, 8 February, (bldg 1, sect 4 ,727, G), (flowers not allowed, in lieu of flowers donations in Hildegard's name may be made to the church).

She is survived by nephew Clemens Jung and niece Roswitha Boldt. Hildegard was considered a part of our family and will be dearly missed.