Obituaries
Judith Lee Stroem, Former Ramsey Realtor, Devoted Mom, Dies at 70
Her family says Judi Stroem loved selling historic homes, working with Fine Organics and, most of all, being a mother.
Judith Lee Stroem died Jan. 11 in her Andover Township home surrounded by her daughters and a friend, according to a notice on the website of the Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home in Ramsey. She was 70 years old.
The Philadelphia native was born Judith Boardsen in 1943. She grew up in Queens and Long Island, N.Y., where she graduated from Walt Whitman High School in Huntington Station. After high school, she went to work in sales for Xerox Corp.
In 1968, she married Richard Stroem and moved to Ramsey, where the couple built their home and raised two girls. In the late 1980s, she earned a real estate license and worked at Weichert Realtors in Ramsey, specializing in the Historic Home Division.
In 1997, she joined Fine Organics in Clifton, NJ, where she worked until the time of her death.
Stroem is survived by her daughters, Erica Lee Stroem and Karin Laura Stroem of Waitsfield, Vt.; sister Jean Grimord, of Union, Maine; and friend and confidant Joe Noon.
Arrangements were managed by the Van Emburgh-Sneider-Pernice Funeral Home, 109 Darlington Ave, Ramsey. A memorial service was held at Lutheran Church of the Redeemer on Jan. 16.
Memorial donations can be made in Judith Lee Stroem's name to Lutheran Church of the Redeemer.
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