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Margaret "Marge" Kasprzak, known to family and friends simply as Marge, died on October 27, 2026, at her home in Collingswood, New Jersey, with her family around her. She was 90 years old. Her death was first reported through an obituary posted by the Foster-Warne Funeral Home of Collingswood and…
Margaret "Marge" Kasprzak, known to family and friends simply as Marge, died on October 27, 2026, at her home in Collingswood, New Jersey, with her family around her. She was 90 years old. Her death was first reported through an obituary posted by the Foster-Warne Funeral Home of Collingswood and picked up by the local news site Gloucester City News, which described her as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother who had lived in Collingswood for decades.
Marge Kasprzak was not a celebrity or a public official. She was, by every account published since her death, a well loved member of her South Jersey community: a wife of 61 years, a mother, a grandmother and, as her family called her, a "gigi" to her great grandchild. Her obituary noted that she worked as a bookkeeper for several law firms in center city Philadelphia, a career that spanned much of her adult life before her retirement. Those who wrote about her after her death remembered her less for any public accomplishment than for the warmth she brought to ordinary family life: Sunday dinners, trips to the Jersey Shore, trolley car rides, and a standing rule that dessert was never optional.
Why her death drew attention beyond her immediate circle has less to do with fame than with the way local obituaries ripple through small towns like Collingswood, where generations of the same families have lived for decades and where a death notice in the funeral home's listings or the local news site is read closely by neighbors. Her obituary described a woman who, in the words of those closest to her, made every person she spoke with feel heard, seen and special, and who put the people around her ahead of herself.
Marge Kasprzak was born on August 3, 1936, and died on October 27, 2026, at the age of 90. Her funeral arrangements, handled by Foster-Warne Funeral Home in Collingswood, included a viewing and a funeral Mass at St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish, St. John Church, in Collingswood on November 2, 2026. She is survived by her husband, Stanley T. Kasprzak, her daughter, Susan Bonder, and her son in law, John Bonder, along with grandchildren and a great grandchild.
No cause of death has been made public. Her family's tribute focused instead on the fullness of the life she lived: a marriage of 61 years, four generations gathered at one dinner table, and a reputation, repeated by those who knew her, as a best friend to everyone she met.
Biography adapted from News reports and the sources cited on this page; death reported by The Retrospect.
