Woven into the tapestry of Long Beach Island’s history was a woman named Freda Benestad Fackler: Barnegat Light native, alumna of the one-room schoolhouse and Barnegat High School, Southern Regional High School physical education teacher and coach, ceramic artist, business owner, and lifelong family friend of the Goves of Brant Beach.
FEISTY: Fackler taught phys. ed at SRHS and owned a ceramics store called Southwester. (Supplied Photo)
Fackler died Saturday, March 14 at age 103. She would have turned 104 in August.
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