Women of Pennsauken Panel N3-5

The following images appear in Panel N3-5 on the North Platform waiting area

Miss Catherine Grob & Sarah Riedinger - Graduates

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Mrs. Mary Theresa Ellis - Postmistress

Mrs. Mary Theresa Ellis (nee Albitz) was the Post Master of the Delair, New Jersey Post Office (River Road-Pennsauken) for 30 years. She was a resident on Curtis Avenue just a few blocks away from the station for approximately 80 years.

 Submitted by Nancy Ellis

Bernie Gerney & Mother

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Pennsauken Junior High School

Nancy Peters and mother on steps of Pennsauken Junior High School (Central School) on occasion of Nancy’s graduation, 1944

Personal Collection of Robert Fisher-Hughes

New Spring Lake – Club

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

American Airlines – Stewardess

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Anna De Rousse Boyer - Philanthropist

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church – Members

This building once stood near the intersection of Cove Road and Westfield Avenue in what, today, is Bethel Cemetery.

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Miss Compton & Miss Ellis – Teachers

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Miss Bendell - Teacher

Cooking Teacher Miss Bendell in front of Pennsauken Junior High School (Central School) 1944

Personal Collection of Robert Fisher-Hughes

Young Women’s Improvement League - Morrisville

Young Women’s Improvement League was established in the early 1950’s by a group of women committed to improving the Morrisville community. Early projects included donating a piano to St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church and advocating for the construction of a community playground to provide a safe place for children to play. Their successful effort resulted in the construction of the Wesley Gaines playground and a “ball diamond” where local children gathered to play softball. Members of the Young Women’s Improvement League included Marie Carney, Juanita Hinson, Geraldine King, Joyce Hardy, Alma White, Priscilla Hawkins, Albullah Gibson. Carolyn Kendall, Grace Bundy, Liz Cox, Rose Samuels, Geneva Coles, Elaine Gordon, Minnie Mosley and Clarice King.

This photo was taken at the Latin Casino and appeared in the local newspaper “All Around Pennsauken”.

Submitted by Alma White

Mrs. Dorothy Strickland - President

Mrs. Dorothy Strickland, founding member and longtime officer of Pennsauken Library Association, flanked by Mayor Eugene Raymond III (left) and Samuel Davis, Recording Secretary of Pennsauken Library Association.  Mrs. Strickland was long a trustee, treasurer and President of the library and an advocate and founder in the establishment of a township library. 

Photo April 1962, Pennsauken Library archives

Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh – Central Airport

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Catherine Louise Williams Crocker - Educator

In 1943 Catherine Louise Williams Crocker began her teaching career in Pennsauken Township teaching the combined third/fourth grade class at the segregated Homestead Elementary School. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 declared segregation unconstitutional and the doors of the Homestead School were closed forever. The last fourteen years of Catherine’s teaching career was served at the Greenville and Burling Schools in Pennsauken. She also saw a need to provide the “Homestead” children with the social activities and became an active participant in the Pen-Del Community Center where she formed teen and adult clubs. She worked with community leaders to improve the local housing, volunteered as a Girl Scout Leader, YECA volunteer, Xinos Chairperson for the Phi Delta Kappa Sorority and then began the overnight camping programs to Paradise Lakes, Camp Knotty Pine and Camp Oak Hill. After thirty-six years of teaching in the Pennsauken School District, Catherine retired in 1978. She taught for one more year in the U. S. Virgin Islands and officially retired until the grand opening of the new Homestead Youth Association Center in 1991. Catherine assisted in the development of the Time-for-Tots Program, After School Latchkey Program and the Sociable Seniors Program at the Homestead Youth Association. During her lifetime, Catherine’s strong belief in God lead her to provide shelter for those who lost their way and to provide solace and comfort to the sick and housebound seniors.

Submitted by Deborah Samuels– Homestead Youth Association

Winter Pastime

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library

Pennsauken School

Jack H. Fichter Collection at Pennsauken Free Public Library