Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Anna Lippincott BIDDLE
Anna "Nancy" Biddle Russell, 100, a former Newtown shop owner, died April 6 at Pennswood Village in Newtown.
Mrs. Russell grew up in Riverton, which her ancestor Robert Biddle helped found in 1851. At 12, she swam across the Delaware to Pennsylvania to earn a canoe from her father.
She graduated from the George School in Newtown and earned a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College. As a young woman, she led pack trips on horseback in the Canadian Rockies.
In 1933, she married Laurence M. Russell. The couple raised four children on a dairy farm in Newtown. In 1948, she and her husband helped establish Newtown Friends School. When he died in 1959, Mrs. Russell worked as a secretary at Woodhill School in Upper Makefield.
For 10 years in the 1960s and 1970s, she co-owned, the Little Shops on the Corner, selling children's clothes.
In the 1970s, Mrs. Russell moved to Schofield House in Newtown and occasionally opened the 1837 home to tours. She was active with the Newtown Historic Association and a lifelong member of the Westfield Friends Meeting in Cinnaminson.
She enjoyed theater, golf, bridge, travel, and vacations on Martha's Vineyard. She delivered Meals on Wheels into her early 90s, her daughter Alice said.
Mrs. Russell is also survived by sons Laurence Jr. and Stephen, daughter Joan Brackbill, five grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial reception will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Pennswood Village, 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Rd.
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