Obituary of Robert B Immordino

Robert B. Immordino, 94, of Lawrenceville, died Saturday at the University Medical Center of Princeton after a brief illness. Born in Trenton, he was a Lawrence Township resident most of his adult life. Bob's prolific energies were apparent to anyone who knew him as he took on new projects constantly even as he moved through his nineties. Bob applied his talents to any project that seemed to need an advocate, and he never backed away from a challenge, always crusading for the good of the people. Mr. Immordino was a Navy WWII veteran having served on the USS Mt. Olympus and USS Mt. McKinley in the Pacific. Mr. Immordino retired in 1981 after 20 years employment in Lawrence Township's tax assessor office, serving the last eight years as the township tax assessor. He was previously employed for 20 years in the maintenance department of Trenton's General Electric plant. He had served four years on the Lawrence Township Board of Education, and was the current President of the Mercer County Library Commission. He was a member of the American Legion Post #414 and before his passing was the oldest veteran in Lawrenceville. He regularly attended USS Mount McKinley Association reunions. Mr. Immordino had a long abiding interest in American and local history and was appointed by Lawrence Township Council as Lawrence's first official Municipal Historian. He was extremely active in the Lawrence Township Historic and Aesthetic Commission, always looking for ways to celebrate and preserve local historical artifacts. He was directly responsible for beginning the Annual Colonel Hand Historical Marches and was instrumental in accumulating most of the Lawrence Township's Historical Collection housed in Mercer County Library's Lawrence branch. For over 25 years Mr. Immordino was actively involved in Mercer County and New Jersey's union labor movement. His extensive New Jersey labor historical materials collection was donated to Rutgers University's Alexander Library and is housed there in ""The Immordino Collection. He was a member of the Botto House National Landmark Museum of Haledon, New Jersey. Mr. Immordino was the co-founder of the Central Jersey Chapter, American Italian Historical Association. He donated his large collection of Mercer County and New Jersey Italian American historical materials collection to the Center for Migration Studies at Staten Island, New York. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dorothea Van Dyke-McLane Association of Prionceton, NJ and the National American Italian Historical Association. Son of the late Guiseppe and Paolina Guagenti Immordino, and brother of the late: Josephine Pardi, Jennie Depula, and Blacey Immordino, he is survived by his beloved wife, Jennie Bilancio Immordino; his daughters, Carolyn MacLeod and her husband James of Kent, CT, and Roberta Immordino of Palo Alto, CA; his grandchildren: Carrie MacLeod Feinberg, Jaime MacLeod Berhanu, and Robert Garcia, and his great granddaughters: Iyana, Aviva, Makeda, and Mayim. Also surviving are his sister Marge Pieczynski and sisters-in-law: Lorraine Anthony, Gloria Bilancio, and Rita Immordino, and many loving nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. His funeral service will be held on Thursday at 10 AM at Poulson & Van Hise Funeral Directors, 650 Lawrence Road, Lawrenceville. Burial will be in the Brigadier General William C. Doyle New Jersey Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Wrightstown. Friends may call on Wednesday at the funeral home from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. The Lawrence Township American Legion Post #414 will conduct services at 7:30 PM. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the Robert B. Immordino Scholarship Fund c/o Roma Bank, 160 Lawrenceville Pennington Road, Suite 14, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, Attn: David Reina.