Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Rachel Wood READ
Rachel Read Hopkinson, 91, an artist, writer and volunteer, died Jan. 30 of Alzheimer's disease at Waverly Heights in Gladwyne.
In the 1970s, after raising four children, Mrs. Hopkinson helped establish the Beehive Club at the Academy of Natural Sciences to introduce inner-city children to nature. She wrote articles for Ranger Rick, the National Wildlife Federation children's magazine, and when the Riverbend Environmental Education Center opened in Gladwyne in 1974, she organized its children's programs.
She also managed donations for the former Female Association of Philadelphia, which aided the poor and infirm, and was treasurer of the Pines, an organization her grandmother founded to assist single mothers. She volunteered for Meals on Wheels.
For more than 20 years, until she became ill in the late 1990s, Mrs. Hopkinson was active with the Women's Committee of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, and founded the committee's Artifact Reproduction Program. With other volunteers, she made plaster casts of items from the museum collections, which were painted and then sold in the museum's gift shop.
Though Mrs. Hopkinson had an unassuming manner, she had high energy and volunteered with determination, fervor and competence, her family said.
A lifelong resident of Gladwyne, Mrs. Hopkinson graduated from Haverford Friends School. She attended Vassar College and graduated from the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Arts, now part of the University of the Arts. In 1941 she married Francis Hopkinson, a lawyer. He died in 1967. Eight years later, she married his younger brother James P. Hopkinson, a department-store executive.
Mrs. Hopkinson's interests included painting, sculpting, vegetable gardening, beekeeping, skiing and skating. She also had a private pilot's license. She had been to all seven continents, touring the Antarctic, hiking the Alps and the Himalayas, and fishing in the Alaskan wilderness.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Hopkinson is survived by sons Francis Jr. and Mark, daughters Rachel Wood and Ann, and six grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 230 Pennswood Rd., Bryn Mawr.
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