Tenth Generation

8717. Katherine L. "Kate" Maddock was born in 1913 in Trenton, Mercer, NJ. She died on 15 May 2006 at the age of 93.

James Roger Prior (private).

Katherine L. "Kate" Maddock-9049 and James Roger Prior-29118 had the following children:

Katherine L. "Kate" Maddock and Ferdinand William Roebling 3rd were married. Ferdinand William Roebling 3rd, son of Ferdinand William Roebling and Ruth Metcalf, was born on 1 November 1910 in Trenton, Mercer, NJ. He received a B.S. Engineering degree in 1933 at Princeton University in Princeton, Mercer, NJ. He served in the military Lt. Colonel in 1941–1945 in U.S. Army Engineers. Ferdinand died on 15 November 2005 at the age of 95 in Mantoloking, Ocean, NJ. Ferdinand W. Roebling III, 95, of Mantoloking, died November 15 at home.
Born in Trenton, he lived there until moving to Lambertville in 1946.
He was a graduate of the Pomfret School in Pomfret, Conn., and a 1933 graduate of Princeton University with a degree in engineering.
During World War II he served in the Army Corps of Engineers for four years. He served in Europe and left in 1945 with the rank of Lt. Colonel.
He was a senior vice president and chief of engineering at John A. Roebling Sons where he worked until the company was sold in 1953. He worked at the successor company, Colorado Fuel and Iron, as a senior vice president in charge of engineering until 1965.
He was the great-grandson of John A. Roebling, the designer of the Brooklyn Bridge and the founder of John A. Roebling Sons Company of Trenton. He was the great nephew of Washington Roebling, who completed construction of the Brooklyn Bridge as designer and chief engineer after his father died during the construction. He was the son of Ferdinand W. Roebling Jr. who was president of the family company until his death in 1936.
He was a founder of the Mercer County Ducks Unlimited Chapter, a member of the Trenton YMCA board, a former chairman of the Delaware Valley United Fund, and a member of the board of trustees of The First Trenton National Bank, predecessor to the current Wachovia Bank.
He was active at The Stony Brook-Millstone Watersheds, Mercer County Soil Conservation Association, International Game Fish Association, New Jersey Conservation Fund, and The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He was a board member of the Izaak Walton League and supportive of their campaign to "Save Barnegat Bay." His hobbies were big game fishing and hunting.
He was a longtime member of The Trenton Country Club, The Trenton Club, The Bay Head Yacht Club, The Bedens Brook Club, The Everglades Club of Palm Beach, and The Sail Fish Club of Florida.
He was predeceased by his first wife, Mary Van Campen Schley of New York City, and by his brother Joseph. He is survived by his second wife, Kate Maddock Roebling; two children from his first marriage, Mary Roebling Foster of Pennington and William S. Roebling of Princeton; two step-daughters, Lynn Prior Harrington and Kate Prior Everitt; five grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.
The funeral service will be private. Burial will be in Ewing Cemetery in the family mausoleum.
Memorial contributions may be made to The Stony-Brook Millstone Watershed Association, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington 08534; or to The Princeton Area Community Foundation, 15 Princess Road, Lawrenceville 08648.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of M. Wm. Murphy Funeral Home, Ewing.
He was buried at Ewing Cemetery, Family Mausoleum in Ewing, Mercer, NJ.