Mary Randall Hopkins, 73, a lay church leader and volunteer advocate, died on Dec 21, 2018, at a family home at Piper Shores near Prouts Neck, Maine. Hopkins was born in Doylestown and lived in Chestnut Hill her whole life. She graduated from Springside School in 1963. A stay-at-home mom who raised two sons from […]
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Dr. Sandra Dombroski Fritsch succumbed to the effects of a 23-year struggle with Parkinson’s Disease on Jan. 13, at her home in Chestnut Hill. Fritsch was born on Nov. 11, 1946 in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania to Dr. Stanley and Jeanette Dombroski. She graduated from St. Ann’s Academy in Wilkes Barre, received a bachelor’s degree in psychology […]
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Noted American stained-glass artist and longtime Mt. Airy resident Charles Z. Lawrence died on Jan. 1, at 83. Lawrence, who began his career in 1956 as an apprentice to master craftsman Rudolph Henrick Beunz, was known for a bold, gothic revival style best typified by five windows in the Washington National Cathedral. In the 1960s, […]
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Barbara Torode, 80, died unexpectedly on Jan. 3 in her Mt. Airy home. She was a retired graphic designer. Born in New York City, she came to Philadelphia to attend the Philadelphia College of Art, now the University of the Arts, graduating in 1959. She worked as an art director for several advertising agencies, notably […]
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by Pete Mazzaccaro Wyndmoor residents Richard and Dorothea Kishbaugh, who were married 66 years, died days apart in December at their home in the Springhouse Estates in Upper Gwynned. Richard, 91, died on Dec. 22. Dorothea, 90, died on Dec. 26. Both died from complications from cardiovascular disease. Richard (Dick) Deane Kishbaugh was born in […]
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Joseph P. McNichol, 77, formerly of Mt. Airy, a football coach who had worked with several high school teams in the Philadelphia area, died Nov. 17 of cancer at his home in Lafayette Hill. Mr. McNichol was probably best known for his years at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, from 1969 to 1976, where […]
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Judith Anne (Brewer) Campbell, 85, died on Nov. 9 in Lafayette Hill. Campbell, the oldest of three children, was born to Walter Cranston (“Cran”) and Mary Elise Reily (“Bunny”) Brewer on Sept. 8, 1933. She lived in the suburbs of Philadelphia for most of her life and was married to Gordon Custis (“Gus”) Campbell (d. […]
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by Michael Scullin Tom P. Monteverde, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer and Chestnut Hill Resident whose career spanned over six decades, died on Nov. 16 of natural causes. He was 91. Monteverde specialized in commercial litigation, often accepting difficult cases for clients unable to find another lawyer who would agree to represent them. “Tom Monteverde epitomized […]
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Dr. Perry Black, a neurosurgeon who was a former chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Hahnemann University, died of heart failure Oct. 28 at his home in Chestnut Hill. Dr. Black served as chairman of the neurosurgery department at Hahnemann (now Drexel University College of Medicine) from 1979 to 1994. He retired as a […]
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Margaret C. “Peggy” McNally, 85, of Ship Bottom, N.J., and formerly of Chestnut Hill, a retired school nurse, died Oct.20 at Chestnut Hill Hospital. Mrs. McNally had been a nurse in the School District of Philadelphia and eventually became a nurse supervisor for the Southwest District of the city, retiring in 1986. She was the […]
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