MARGARET LOUISE DAMITZ, 100, of Ocean Grove, died Friday, July 28, 2006 at the Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. She celebrated her 100th birthday on October 31, 2005. Mrs. Damitz was a longtime resident of Ocean Grove, first coming to visit during the summer of 1914, staying at the St. Elmo Hotel on Main Avenue, with her grandmother. She was a communicant of St. James Episcopal Church, Bradley Beach for many years and a member of the Morristown High School Alumni Association. She was predeceased by her first husband, Walter Crawford in 1952 and by her second husband Frederick Damitz in 1988. Surviving is her daughter, Karla Zimmerman and her husband, Bill, of Ocean Grove, her step daughters Carol Cross of Sacramento, CA, and Nancy Bassett of Franklinville, NY, her step son William Damitz and his wife, Sue, of Boulton, MA, her grandchildren, Laura Graham and her husband Michael, and Tom Zimmerman, her step grandchildren, Colleen Haddican, Vernon, Brian, and Bill Cross, Carol Bassett, Laura Faulring, Karl Bassett, and Meredith Speichle, and Bradley and Karl Damitz, her great grandchildren, Tara and Sean Graham, her step great grand children, Cejai, Nathan, Shane, Stephanie, Nathaniel, Debbie, Tanya, Christopher, Derrick, Richie, Hannah, Jeffrey, Shannon, Alexander, Anthony, David and Willem, and her step great great grandchildren, Nathan, Zachary, Natasha, Ryan, Christopher and Hailey.
Friends were invited to call from 2-4 and 7-9 on Tuesday at the Ocean Grove Memorial Home, 118 Main Avenue. A funeral service was held on Wednesday morning, August 2nd at 10:30 at the funeral Home, with interment following at Monmouth Memorial Park, Tinton Falls.