September 21, 2006 Issue                                       

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Obituaries

Frances H. Kopple

Frances Hopkins Kopple, 85, a former social service administrator, died at home in Chestnut Hill on Aug. 10.

She had worked for the Mississippi Department of Child Welfare until enlisting in the Women’s Army Corps in 1944. She served in the U.S. and Europe as a cryptographic technician and historian. After she was discharged from the Army in 1946, she returned to social work in Memphis, Tenn.

In 1949, she obtained a master’s degree in social service administration from the University of Chicago, then joined the Family Service Bureau of United Charities of Chicago, a private agency, where she spent most of her subsequent professional career, holding positions of increasing responsibility and retiring in 1983 as director of program.

Mrs. Kopple was born in Meridian, Miss., on July 10, 1921 and was reared in the nearby small town of Hickory. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi in 1940, and subsequently majored in social work at Tulane University.

She is survived by her husband, Kenneth D. Kopple, a chemist, whom she married in 1960. In 1985 they moved from Chicago to Chestnut Hill.

Funeral services will be private.

Daniel Felix

Daniel A. Felix, of Germantown, Malvern and West Chester, died on Sept. 10. He was predeceased by his wife Virgilia (Ingram) Felix.

Mr. Felix is survived by his daughter Diane Felix Sears of Marblehead, Mass.; stepdaughters Virgilia Rawnsley of Philadelphia and Sue Ferguson of San Jose, Calif.; a sister, Mary Fortunato of Newport, R.I.; three grandchildren, Manning, Nicholas and Jack Sears; and many nieces and nephews.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Sept. 15 at Our Mother of Consolation Church in Chestnut Hill. Interment was at Whitemarsh Memorial Park.

Memorial contributions may be made to Thorncroft Therapeutic Horseback Riding, Inc., 190 Line Road, Malvern, PA 19355.

Carolyn Seelye Cadwalader

Caroline Seelye Cadwalader, 83, died of cancer Sept. 9, 2006, in her home. She was the wife of the late Henry Cadwalader of York Harbor, Maine.

Mrs. Cadwalader, a graduate of St. Timothy’s School in Baltimore, and Vassar College. She married Henry Cadwalader in 1945 in Philadelphia, after several years working at Smith Kline and French in Philadelphia in Market Research and Statistics. She was devoted to horticulture and conservation and her successes in these areas are clear from the leadership roles and endeavors she undertook.

The Cadwaladers lived in Philadelphia until the late 1960s and during that time Mrs. Cadwalader served as president of the Women’s Committee at the Academy of Natural Sciences, and chairman for the Academy of Natural Sciences Flower Show Exhibit “The Evolution of Plant Life” which was the winner of the Bulkeley Medal of the Garden Club of America, and the Gold Medal of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society of America in 1961. She was a founding member of the Philadelphia Committee of the Garden Club of America. In 1965-66 she was chairman of the Philadelphia Unit of the Herb Society of America. She was also on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.

Mrs. Cadwalader played the piano and loved musical events. She thoroughly enjoyed participating with her husband in the chorus of several Gilbert and Sullivan operettas produced by the Savoy Company of Philadelphia at the Academy of Music and Longwood Gardens.

Upon moving to New England, Mrs. Cadwalader was chairman for the New England Unit of the Herb Society of America, and of their exhibit “Herbs in the Kitchen Corner,” winner of the Bulkeley Medal of the Garden Club of America, and the Trustees Award and Gold Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Boston Show in 1974.

She received the Helen de Conway Little Medal of Honor in April 1981 from the Herb Society of America for her outstanding contribution to the Herb Society, particularly as chairman of the National Herb Garden. She also received the Achievement Medal of the Garden Club of America “for her role in restoration and conservation programs, and for sharing her horticultural knowledge with thousands, through her work on the National Arboretum Herb Garden, her books and magazine articles.” She went with a contingent from the Herb Society of America to the White House to accept the American Association of Nurserymen National Landscape Award in 1984.

Mrs. Cadwalader had an appetite for learning, spoke three languages, and loved to travel and to spend time with friends and family.

She is survived by her children; Charles and Nicoll C. Brinley, Stephen and Georgia C. Bennett, Rob and Clarissa C. Neumer, Caroline C. Leland and Ed Krizek, Henry Cadwalader, grandchildren; Charles and Margot Brinley, Charles Strater, Eliza Neumer, Sophie Neumer, Julia Neumer, Rob Neumer, and great grandchildren; Jordan Strater, William Brinley and Reily Brinley.

A graveside service will be held in St. Thomas Church, Fort Washington.

Memorial contributions may be made to the York Land Trust, P.O. Box 1241, York Harbor, ME 03911.