Longtime Fair Havenite Ingrid Swenson Power passed away peacefully on June 21 after experiencing complications from a planned surgery. She was 76.
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Born in Elizabeth on March 11, 1948, to Swen and Isabella Swenson, Ingrid went on to graduate from Upsala College with a bachelor’s degree. She then earned her master’s from Montclair State University.
Ingrid had a 29-year career teaching language arts in the Matawan-Aberdeen School District.
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“She instilled in her students and her children a love of language, narrative cohesion, and grammar (and if she were still with us today, she would probably have line-item edits to this obituary). In 1971, she married the love of her life, Thomas Michael Power (Mike), after they both fell head over heels at a mutual friend’s party. Ingrid was a talented and stylish seamstress, a skill that she only honed with time as she spent hours making her children outfits for special events such as the senior prom. She also launched a mid-career small business, Ingrid’s Final Touches, which gave her an outlet for her home décor talent while raising three children. Additionally she was a Brownie leader and children’s choir leader at Church of the Nativity. She was a devoted wife, mom, and grandmother and will be remembered for her wit and wry humor, incomparable baking skills, and love of
Loved ones of Ingrid Swenson Power in her obituary
New Jersey summers at the beach.”
Ingrid is survived by: her husband of 52 years, Mike; her children, Kirsten (KP) Power, of Boston, Karin Power (wife Megan Elston), of Portland, OR, Erika Power, of Denver, CO; grandchildren, Grady and Finnegan Elston-Power; and her brothers, Carl (NJ), Paul (NC) and Nils (FL) Swenson and their spouses, children, and grandchildren.
The family will hold a small, intimate celebration of life service at Church of the Nativity on Saturday, July 27, at 10:30 a.m..
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