RIP Suzanne Ng - Long-time Poster on MOL
Suzanne Ng will be remembered in a memorial and a celebration of life service on Sunday, June 14, from 2- 6 p.m., at Old North Church, 120 Washington Avenue in Dumont, NJ.
SuzanneNg was always a welcome sight on MOL, and that is an exquisite obituary.
I was really sorry and shocked by her death. Another good person gone too soon.
saw on FB that she passed after what seems like a fairly lengthy illness she was fighting with an optimistic spirit. I looked up her comments here and apparently she hadn't posted in nearly a decade, which would explain why my memory of her contributions were kind of fuzzy. But it seems like she was here mostly to give or request good advice. I never met her but she seemed like a positive person. And as mrincredible noted, gone too soon.
ml1 said:
saw on FB that she passed after what seems like a fairly lengthy illness she was fighting with an optimistic spirit. I looked up her comments here and apparently she hadn't posted in nearly a decade, which would explain why my memory of her contributions were kind of fuzzy. But it seems like she was here mostly to give or request good advice. I never met her but she seemed like a positive person. And as mrincredible noted, gone too soon.
I recall meeting her at one of the MOL F2F events.
I’m so sad to hear this news - I really enjoyed Suzanne’s posts.
I’ll make donations to the local Food Bank in her name.
I knew her about 15 years ago when she was a librarian in the schools (moving around positions a bit--I kept running into her in different buildings) and some other social events (maybe a meetup and/or MOL F2F). She enjoyed going out to restaurants with her husband and talking about them and was the first person to tell me about Smashburger. I have been meaning to try them ever since. I can't even remember if she liked them or if she and her husband had a bad experience or if they were just anticipating the opening or complaining that we did not have one. But, every time I see one I think of her so, in her memory, I will now make an effort to go there and every time I see one going forward I will have sad thoughts thinking about how she is gone far to young.
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Suzanne P. Ng (née Weinheimer), 55, of West Orange, NJ, formerly of Bergenfield, NJ, passed away on May 31, 2026 at her home. She was the beloved wife of Hai Ng, loving daughter of Mary (née Bouton) and the late William Weinheimer (1994), and dear sister of Laura Kibala and her husband Daniel. Though she didn’t have children of her own, she was always proud to talk about the two nephews on her side of the family; three nephews, two nieces, three grand-nieces, and two grand-nephews on the other; and the hundreds of kids whose lives she touched over her 30-years plus career with the South Orange & Maplewood School District (SOMSD).
Born in Westwood, NJ, and raised in Bergenfield, NJ, Suzanne graduated from Bergenfield High School Class of ’89. After graduating from Marywood University Class of ’94, she became a teacher and librarian at SOMSD—beginning with a position at South Mountain Elementary School & Annex, and later moving over to Columbia High School, with a brief engagement at Seth Boyden Elementary School.
When she wasn’t in school, her heart would still be with her chosen career and “her kids,” always taking the opportunity to visit rummage sales and book sales, on the lookout for lost library books she could return and books she could get for “her kids.
As a lover of all things trivia and an avid watcher of Jeopardy!—although she wasn’t picked to appear—Suzanne did meet Alex Trebec when she’qualified to try out as a contestant.
Suzanne was also a big fan of cooking shows, travelogues, and documentaries. She enjoyed dining with some of the best chefs in New Jersey’s Farm-to-Fork scene; meeting and tasting the craft of Top Chefs and celebrity chefs from all over; taking road trips across the United States and Canada, and exploring the World; visiting and experiencing—first-hand—many of the things she had seen on TV and the movies, and meeting some of the people involved.
Learning the game of mahjong from her mother-in-law on her first trip to Singapore, Suzanne brought the love of the game back to New Jersey with her and eventually joined a group of ladies for weekly games at a nearby Panera.
While she wasn’t a big videogamer, Suzanne loved a variety of word, puzzle, and casual games on her smartphone. She would join her husband in exploring the Wizarding World on Harry Potter: Wizards Unite and become expert Pokémon Trainers on Pokémon Go, attending several in-person Pokémon Go Fests and many community events.
Over the last several months, even though she was bedridden, she didn’t allow herself to be beaten. She was always in high spirits and continued to help out at Columbia High School wherever she could and stayed active in the SOMSD Community, all from bed, all the while working hard to get better so she could go back to school and see “her kids” again this Fall.
In lieu of flowers, and whenever you think of Suzanne, please consider a donation to your local library, return a lost library book you might find, or bring some much needed supplies to a food pantry, in her memory—she would be pleased to be remembered in a giving way.