Eleanor Kreta Obituary (2021) – Bayonne, NJ – The Jersey Journal – The Star-Ledger Obituaries

Eleanor Kreta passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday evening, October 13, 2021. She had just celebrated her 100th birthday this past July wherein she regaled friends and relatives with stories from her rich history which, she noted with pride, included admission to the first class at St. Peter’s College to admit female students. Quite the accomplished lady, Eleanor started out as a senior clerk in a small accounting firm and went on to become the accounting office manager and systems planner for a division of Columbia University. Always a proponent of higher education, and its importance to women, Eleanor went on to become an Adjunct Lecturer in Secretarial Studies at N.Y.U.; an Assistant Professor in the information processing division of Essex County College.; and, an Adjunct Lecturer at Jersey City State College. She subsequently took time off to learn and become proficient in the Spanish language which, along with her second Masters degree, allowed her to teach various business related subjects in two languages. Eleanor went on to develop a program known as “Women in the Contemporary World”. She served as president of the “Bayonne Professional Woman’s Club” as well as the “Essex County College Faculty Association”. She subsequently co-founded the Montessori’s Children House in Bayonne. Never one to sit still Eleanor spent her retired years as a volunteer docent at both the Museum of Natural History in N.Y and the Children’s Museum in Newark, N.J. Eleanor was predeceased by her mother, Julia Kreta (nee Dzamba) and her sister, Margaret Evelyn (Sis) Kreta. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 10:00am at the St. John’s Byzantine Catholic Church at 15 East 26th Street, Bayonne, N.J. Arrangements by: Sweeney Funeral Home, Bayonne.