Patricia Ann (Nee Brokaw) Apgar

BOUND BROOK – Patricia Ann Brokaw Apgar, 95, died in Huntsville, AL February 18, 2024

after a brief illness. Pat was the daughter of Robert and Hilda Brokaw and spent most of her life

in Bound Brook.

After graduating from Douglass College (now Rutgers), Pat married Sterling E. Apgar, Jr., and

started her career teaching home economics in Somerville, NJ. The arrival of the first of four

children paused that career until Pat returned to full-time teaching 18 years later, this time in

Bridgewater, NJ.

After retiring in 1994, she moved to Port Charlotte, FL and enjoyed the warm

weather there for 24 years. Following the death of her spouse, William Springer (also from

Bound Brook), she moved to Huntsville, AL in 2018 to be with her son and daughter-in-law.

Pat was raised and married in the Bound Brook Congregational Church, She was active in the

Bound Brook community, volunteering as a Girl Scout leader and an election worker.

In Florida, she was a hospice volunteer and a member of the Red Hat Society. An excellent seamstress,

she sewed many of her daughters’ clothes, and later took up quilting and counted cross-stitch.

Pat was a loyal friend who valued her many lifelong relationships. As one of her friends put it, “If

there were more people like Pat in the world, it would be a much better place.”

Pat was predeceased by her son, Sterling (“Ricky”) Apgar, her daughter Sue DiGiampaolo, and

her husband William Springer. She is survived by her son Scott Apgar and his wife Terri; her

daughter Sharon Apgar Yergeau and her husband Paul; her son-in-law Jerry DiGiampaolo,

seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Services - Calling hours will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at

Hagan-Chamberlain Funeral Home, 225 Mountain Avenue, Bound Brook, NJ,

Burial to follow at Bound Brook Cemetery.