This Day in History: 1961-04-11

Funeral services were held at the Ramapo Reformed Church for Mrs. Annie Winter who had died on the 8th of April after a brief illness,. She was one of Mahwah’s best known civic leaders. She was born in Darlington, attended private school in Allendale, the Packard Collegiate Institute and Vassar. She married Albert Winter in 1904. She was a charter member of the Mahwah Women’s Club, active in the Reformed Church where she taught Sunday School for twenty-five years and the chief force in organizing the Mahwah Public Library. She was President of the Library Board for forty-one years, from the time of its organization on April 1, 1920 until she resigned on June 15, 1960. She supplemented with a generous bequest the $40,000 left in her husband’s will for the construction of the Library near the train station. She had been named Citizen of the Year by the VFW. (Bristow)