January 25, 2016--Jeanette Muser, Author, Dies

by Ed Belding
South Brunswick Historical Society

Jeanette K. Muser passed away on January 25, 2016.  She was born in Vienna, Austria, to American parents on November 16, 1940.  Her father, Dr. Frederick J. Krueger, worked for the U. S. Public Health Service and was on assignment in Europe at the time Jeanette was born.  Upon their return to the States, the Kruegers settled in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.  While there, Jeanette furthered her education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in History.  Jeanette married Franz Josef Moehn in 1962.  The couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1965.  Jeanette received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1967 and spent the year in Germany.  After the birth of her second child, the family moved to Pennington, New Jersey.  Jeanette earned an M.A. in Library Science from Rutgers University in 1971.  She served as a librarian at the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School until 1995.  In 1982, she and Franz divorced.  After her children finished high school, Jeanette married Rainer Karl Martin Muser in 1987.  They moved to Rocky Hill.  After retiring, she pursued volunteer work, including the Rocky Hill Heritage Project; the Rocky Hill Remembers Newsletter; and a book project--ROCKY HILL, KINGSTON, and GRIGGSTOWN (Arcadia, 1998).  For her years of dedication to local history, Jeanette received an award from the Somerset County Cultural & Heritage Commission in 2002.  She also served on the Rocky Hill Planning Board, the Committee for the Millstone River Valley National Scenic Byway, and helped publish a booklet entitled--"1783: General George Washington's Departure from Military Service."  We can thank Jeanette Muser for including all of Kingston in her book, thereby adding to our understanding of the early history of that part of our township.