Adell V. Tibbetts

Born in 1918 on 900 acres in Perth, Ont., Canada, Adell came to the United States at 14 years of age. She went to high school in Red Bank before moving to Trenton and working as a buyer for the prestigious Arnold Constable Department Store in the 1960s and retiring from McGraw-Hill in Hightstown in the mid-70s.

Adell was the 1945 WWII widow of Capt. Robert W. Tibbetts, raising their daughter Cynthia ("Tookie") as a single mother, before finding love again with Thomas S. Ward, her loyal partner, until his death in 1992.

Adell was a committed member of the Bethel Lutheran Church in Hamilton, where she taught Sunday School for 15 years, and helped make the choir's robes. Known to cut a rug at the Hamilton Elks Lodge, Adell also loved hitting the slots in Atlantic City where she miraculously won or "broke even" every time. She loved to travel, filling her passport with stamps from all over the world, and she always made time for visits back home to the family farm in Ontario. Adell was a skilled dressmaker and a talented illustrator. A lover of flowers, birds, and dogs, they often made an appearance in her beautiful pencil sketches and hand-drawn holiday cards. Most importantly, Adell would want you to know that she left this earth with all of her own teeth and a full head of hair.

Preceded in death by her beloved grandmother Mary Jane Truelove, her mother Annie Truelove Hamlet, and her brother Alan Earl Hamlet, Adell is survived by her loving and devoted daughter Cynthia Anne Tibbetts Klein, her granddaughter Elisabeth Victoria (David) MacKinnon, her grandsons Robert Michael (Joann) and William David (Christine) Curtis, as well as her two great-grandsons Jacob MacKinnon and Brendan Curtis.

Adell will rest peacefully in Beverly National Cemetery in Beverly, NJ and St. Stephen's Cemetery in Ontario. Services will be private.