MOUNT DESERT — Adolph Fuerst passed away Jan. 14, 2012 surrounded by his family. He was born in Linz, Austria and came to the United States in 1939 to escape from Hitler. He was a longtime summer resident of Mount Desert, starting in 1967. Although his permanent home was in Brooklyn, N.Y., when he drove to his cabin on Echo Lake and saw Sargent Mountain for the first time each summer, he would say, “I’m home.” He loved hiking with the Footloose Friends, driving down unmarked dirt roads, doing his annual 2-mile swim across Echo Lake, and enjoying cross-country skiing in Acadia one glorious winter.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later got a Bachelor of Science from City College-New York and a Master of Science from Brooklyn College. He worked primarily as a pigment chemist and consultant. His name is on many printing ink patents, including ones used by his wife Shirley Fuerst in her artwork.
He was president of the NY Pigment Club and the NY Microscopical Society and volunteered for many organizations. Mr. Fuerst loved music and met his wife in an American Youth Hostel Chorus, where she was the conductor. They enjoyed playing music together, he on the piano and she on the violin. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 2011.
He enjoyed nature and captured it with spectacular photographs, including one that won third prize in the 1972 Kodak Beauty in America competition. And he completed five New York City marathons and was an avid jogger on the Acadia carriage roads.
He mastered eight languages and enjoyed word play, poetry and punning in all of them.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two children, David Fuerst (Marie Fuerst) of Encino, Calif., and Ellen Fuerst (Michael Jacobs) of Sausalito, Calif.; and five grandchildren, Jessica Fuerst, Nicole Fuerst, Jason Fuerst, Rebecca Jacobs and Jonathan Jacobs.
Memorial services were in Brooklyn. The family requests that any memorial donations be made to the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, Olie Westheimer, Executive Director, P.O. Box 24583, Brooklyn NY 11202-4583
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later got a Bachelor of Science from City College-New York and a Master of Science from Brooklyn College. He worked primarily as a pigment chemist and consultant. His name is on many printing ink patents, including ones used by his wife Shirley Fuerst in her artwork.
He was president of the NY Pigment Club and the NY Microscopical Society and volunteered for many organizations. Mr. Fuerst loved music and met his wife in an American Youth Hostel Chorus, where she was the conductor. They enjoyed playing music together, he on the piano and she on the violin. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 2011.
He enjoyed nature and captured it with spectacular photographs, including one that won third prize in the 1972 Kodak Beauty in America competition. And he completed five New York City marathons and was an avid jogger on the Acadia carriage roads.
He mastered eight languages and enjoyed word play, poetry and punning in all of them.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two children, David Fuerst (Marie Fuerst) of Encino, Calif., and Ellen Fuerst (Michael Jacobs) of Sausalito, Calif.; and five grandchildren, Jessica Fuerst, Nicole Fuerst, Jason Fuerst, Rebecca Jacobs and Jonathan Jacobs.
Memorial services were in Brooklyn. The family requests that any memorial donations be made to the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, Olie Westheimer, Executive Director, P.O. Box 24583, Brooklyn NY 11202-4583
MOUNT DESERT — Adolph Fuerst passed away Jan. 14, 2012 surrounded by his family. He was born in Linz, Austria and came to the United States in 1939 to escape from Hitler. He was a longtime summer resident of Mount Desert, starting in 1967. Although his permanent home was in Brooklyn, N.Y., when he drove to his cabin on Echo Lake and saw Sargent Mountain for the first time each summer, he would say, “I’m home.” He loved hiking with the Footloose Friends, driving down unmarked dirt roads, doing his annual 2-mile swim across Echo Lake, and enjoying cross-country skiing in Acadia one glorious winter.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later got a Bachelor of Science from City College-New York and a Master of Science from Brooklyn College. He worked primarily as a pigment chemist and consultant. His name is on many printing ink patents, including ones used by his wife Shirley Fuerst in her artwork.
He was president of the NY Pigment Club and the NY Microscopical Society and volunteered for many organizations. Mr. Fuerst loved music and met his wife in an American Youth Hostel Chorus, where she was the conductor. They enjoyed playing music together, he on the piano and she on the violin. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 2011.
He enjoyed nature and captured it with spectacular photographs, including one that won third prize in the 1972 Kodak Beauty in America competition. And he completed five New York City marathons and was an avid jogger on the Acadia carriage roads.
He mastered eight languages and enjoyed word play, poetry and punning in all of them.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two children, David Fuerst (Marie Fuerst) of Encino, Calif., and Ellen Fuerst (Michael Jacobs) of Sausalito, Calif.; and five grandchildren, Jessica Fuerst, Nicole Fuerst, Jason Fuerst, Rebecca Jacobs and Jonathan Jacobs.
Memorial services were in Brooklyn. The family requests that any memorial donations be made to the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, Olie Westheimer, Executive Director, P.O. Box 24583, Brooklyn NY 11202-4583
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later got a Bachelor of Science from City College-New York and a Master of Science from Brooklyn College. He worked primarily as a pigment chemist and consultant. His name is on many printing ink patents, including ones used by his wife Shirley Fuerst in her artwork.
He was president of the NY Pigment Club and the NY Microscopical Society and volunteered for many organizations. Mr. Fuerst loved music and met his wife in an American Youth Hostel Chorus, where she was the conductor. They enjoyed playing music together, he on the piano and she on the violin. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 2011.
He enjoyed nature and captured it with spectacular photographs, including one that won third prize in the 1972 Kodak Beauty in America competition. And he completed five New York City marathons and was an avid jogger on the Acadia carriage roads.
He mastered eight languages and enjoyed word play, poetry and punning in all of them.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two children, David Fuerst (Marie Fuerst) of Encino, Calif., and Ellen Fuerst (Michael Jacobs) of Sausalito, Calif.; and five grandchildren, Jessica Fuerst, Nicole Fuerst, Jason Fuerst, Rebecca Jacobs and Jonathan Jacobs.
Memorial services were in Brooklyn. The family requests that any memorial donations be made to the Brooklyn Parkinson Group, Olie Westheimer, Executive Director, P.O. Box 24583, Brooklyn NY 11202-4583
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