Jeanne H. Wurmser died on Saturday, April 27, 2024, peacefully at Jersey Shore Hospital. She was born August 6, 1943 in Quincy, Ohio, the daughter of Anna Lucille and Donald Randolph Hahn.
Jeanne graduated in 1961 from Riverside High School in Degraff, Ohio, where she was class valedictorian. She then went on to Miami University in Oxford Ohio, where she received a BA, summa cum laude, in Chemistry. Graduating top ten in her class, Jeanne was a student leader, being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and becoming president of the Alpha Chapter of Delta Zeta sorority.
After graduating, Jeanne pursued a different scientific field becoming a leader in community mental healthcare. She earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and interned at Veterans Administration Hospitals. As an intern she worked with returning veterans from the Vietnam War and helped them recover from their war time experiences and reintegrate into society. Jeanne then went on to a career at CPC Behavioral Healthcare, where she rose to become its long-time president and CEO while greatly expanding its mental health services. Jeanne continued as a leader in the mental health community. She served on the board or as chair of mental-health provider groups such as New Jersey Association of Mental Health Agencies and Mental Health Corporations of America. After leaving CPC Behavioral Healthcare, Jeanne consulted on mental-health policy with the state of New Jersey and served on the faculty of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor.
Jeanne was an avid photographer and creator of photo albums, especially of her grandchildren to whom she was especially devoted. She was adept making scrapbooks of trips with her husband to France and Italy, to the Virgin Islands on a sailing adventure or to Florida to visit friends. She filled them with photos and memorabilia of their travels. Jeanne was skilled in studying the genealogy of her family, which extended back to the seventeenth century in America and she traveled to Pennsylvania and Ohio on occasion for research. Jeanne also enjoyed being a board member and treasurer of the Monmouth Museum. She was an enthusiastic reader of American history and mystery novels. She particularly enjoyed Janet Evanovich’s “Stephanie Plum” mysteries with all their local New Jersey color. In later years she and her husband reread Gone with the Wind together, her favorite novel.
Surviving is her husband of 25 years, James L. Alberi; her son, Kurt Gareth Wurmser and his fiance, Kathleen Garrihy of Brick; her step-children, Thomas Alberi and his wife Arielle Kane; Christine Alberi and her husband John Tohanczyn; her brother Thomas Hahn and his wife Lynne; her nieces Megan Hahn and Kristin Whitten; her grandchildren Isabelle and Alexander Wurmser; and her step grandchildren Rose, Madeline, Benjamin, Jacob and Tessa.
Visitation is Friday May 3, 4 to 8 p.m. at Holmdel Funeral Home, 26 South Holmdel Road, Holmdel, New Jersey. The funeral will be at Holmdel Funeral Home Saturday May 4 at 11am. Interment will follow at Marlboro Memorial Cemetery, Morganville, New Jersey.
In lieu of customary remembrances Jeanne’s family asks with gratitude that donations in her honor be directed towards the Alzheimer Foundation at www.alzfdn.org.
The family would like to extend its gratitude to all the caring teams at Artis Senior Living of Eatontown for their love, generosity and support during the last years of her life.