Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Mary TOMLINSON
Mary Tomlinson "Tommy" Kester, 80, completed life as we know it on February 16, 2009. The cause of death was Parkinson's Disease, an affliction with which she had struggled valiantly for more than seven years. At the time of her passing she and her husband were residents of Pennswood Village, Newtown, Pa.
Mary was born August 28, 1928. She was the daughter of the late C. Ernest "Zeke" and Frances Hallowell Tomlinson of Jenkintown, Pa. She was preceded in death by her two brothers: C. Ernest Tomlinson, Jr., and Robert Tomlinson. She is survived by her husband of 57 years, H. Paul Kester, retired Court Administrator of Bucks County. She is also survived by her four daughters: Valerie Morrissey, Oakland, N.J. and her two sons, Michael and Daniel, Robin Kester-Patterson and her husband Frank and their three daughters-Amanda Jimenez, her husband Jose and daughter Chase, Hillary Beal, her husband Travis and son Tyrin, and Kendra Patterson, Dana Kester-McCabe, her husband Brad and their two sons - Keanan and Finnian, and Karen Kester and her two sons - Matthew and Steven Ogram.
Mary was a lifelong Quaker, having been raised in Abington Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Upon her husband's discharge for military service in 1954, they located in New-town and Mary transferred her membership from Abington to Newtown Friends Meeting where she took part in a wide variety of meeting activities over the years.
Mary was a graduate of Jenkintown High School (1946), Brown University - Pembroke College (1950) and Drexel University School of Library Science (1951). Upon the completion of her degree work at Drexel she was employed as assistant librarian at the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She resigned from that position in 1954 to raise a family. When her youngest daughter entered the first grade, she resumed her library career, accepting a position cataloguing children's books at the Bucks County Free Library in Doylestown. After 11 years with the County system, she accepted an appointment as the first paid librarian of the Village Library of Wrightstown where she supervised its expansion from a one room schoolhouse to its present size. She was also responsible for coordinating the work schedule of more than 50 volunteer assistants at the library. She retired from this position in 1991 and for several years served as the volunteer librarian of the Newtown Historic Association. For a number of years she was a member of the Lower Makefield Branch of the American Association of University Women.
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