Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
AGE: 97 • Hockessin
(Mrs. Earnest W. Rowe)
Born in Philadelphia as the first child of Horace Greeley Leng and Irene Magdalene (Intemann) Leng, Elizabeth grew up in historic Fishtown, then in the Oxford Circle/Castor area of Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1934 from Frankford High. Having completed a two-year course at Palmer Business College, she was employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Life Insurance Company, for whom she worked until late 1943, despite a policy against employing married women. On August 2, 1940, Elizabeth had married Earnest Walter Rowe from Wyndmoor, PA. They met in 1937 while serving as Secretary and President of their district Luther League (a youth organization of the Lutheran Church.)
A war-time newlywed, in 1943-44 she accompanied Ernie to Anniston, AL, where he trained at Ft. McClellan before serving in the Rhineland-Central Europe campaign. State-side in Philadelphia, Elizabeth volunteered for the Red Cross, gave birth to Karen (1945), and welcomed Ernie home January 9, 1946. The births of Barbara (1947) and Brian (1948) followed his return.
A devoted partner with Ernie, whose 41 years with DuPont's Refinish Sales entailed frequent transfers, Betty readily adapted to new homes, communities and activities. She volunteered as school librarian/cataloguer, Cub Scout Den Leader, and Bible School teacher. An inveterate correspondent, note taker, and vacation chronicler, she also had a passion for family genealogies, antiques, and collectibles; knit steadily, including 100 baby afghans, the last for great-granddaughter, Josie; and loved music, as a pianist, singer of hymns, and toe-tapping listener.
Betty and Ernie remained devoted Lutherans, and since 1959 were early members of St. Philip's and then Hope Lutheran Church, in New Castle, DE, where Betty actively participated in the Mary Circle, as an officer for local chapters of Church Women United, and as Delaware District delegate to the National Ecumenical Assembly. A volunteer from the 1930s onward at the Germantown Lutheran Home for the Aged and Orphans, Betty later served as Maryland Synod representative to the Women's Auxiliary for the National Lutheran Home, and supported global missionary efforts as well as women in the clergy.
From age 4 until her health declined, Betty spent many summers at the Leng family cottage in Avalon, NJ, where she and Ernie and their family also spent many happy vacations. Enjoying a romance that lasted a lifetime, they celebrated their 73rd anniversary August 2, 2013, before Ernie died on November 21st of that year at age 99. They had been residents of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin for twenty years when Betty passed away peacefully to join him. Preceded in death also by an infant son, Kirk Walter (1958), Elizabeth is survived by her children, Karen Elizabeth (CA), Barbara Jane and husband, Chet Chmielewski (FL/UT), and Brian Earnest (NM); three grandchildren, David Rowe, son of Brian and his former wife, Katherine Marvel Rowe, Carolyn Chmielewski, Adam Chmielewski and his wife, Sarah, and a great-granddaughter, Josephine Noelle Chmielewski; her brother, Horace G. Leng, Jr. and his wife Amelie, their four children (Horace G. Leng, III, Steven, Christian, and Robyn Leng Barnes) and their families.
Burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Feasterville, PA, will be private, with a Memorial Service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Mary Circle of Hope Lutheran Church, 230 Christiana Rd., New Castle, DE 19720 or to Cokesbury Village, 726 Loveville Rd., Hockessin, DE 19707, in support of their ministry and residents' musical programs.
Funeral Home
McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc
3710 Kirkwood Hwy Wilmington, DE 19808
Published in The News Journal on Jan. 18, 2015
Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
AGE: 97 • Hockessin
(Mrs. Earnest W. Rowe)
Born in Philadelphia as the first child of Horace Greeley Leng and Irene Magdalene (Intemann) Leng, Elizabeth grew up in historic Fishtown, then in the Oxford Circle/Castor area of Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1934 from Frankford High. Having completed a two-year course at Palmer Business College, she was employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Life Insurance Company, for whom she worked until late 1943, despite a policy against employing married women. On August 2, 1940, Elizabeth had married Earnest Walter Rowe from Wyndmoor, PA. They met in 1937 while serving as Secretary and President of their district Luther League (a youth organization of the Lutheran Church.)
A war-time newlywed, in 1943-44 she accompanied Ernie to Anniston, AL, where he trained at Ft. McClellan before serving in the Rhineland-Central Europe campaign. State-side in Philadelphia, Elizabeth volunteered for the Red Cross, gave birth to Karen (1945), and welcomed Ernie home January 9, 1946. The births of Barbara (1947) and Brian (1948) followed his return.
A devoted partner with Ernie, whose 41 years with DuPont's Refinish Sales entailed frequent transfers, Betty readily adapted to new homes, communities and activities. She volunteered as school librarian/cataloguer, Cub Scout Den Leader, and Bible School teacher. An inveterate correspondent, note taker, and vacation chronicler, she also had a passion for family genealogies, antiques, and collectibles; knit steadily, including 100 baby afghans, the last for great-granddaughter, Josie; and loved music, as a pianist, singer of hymns, and toe-tapping listener.
Betty and Ernie remained devoted Lutherans, and since 1959 were early members of St. Philip's and then Hope Lutheran Church, in New Castle, DE, where Betty actively participated in the Mary Circle, as an officer for local chapters of Church Women United, and as Delaware District delegate to the National Ecumenical Assembly. A volunteer from the 1930s onward at the Germantown Lutheran Home for the Aged and Orphans, Betty later served as Maryland Synod representative to the Women's Auxiliary for the National Lutheran Home, and supported global missionary efforts as well as women in the clergy.
From age 4 until her health declined, Betty spent many summers at the Leng family cottage in Avalon, NJ, where she and Ernie and their family also spent many happy vacations. Enjoying a romance that lasted a lifetime, they celebrated their 73rd anniversary August 2, 2013, before Ernie died on November 21st of that year at age 99. They had been residents of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin for twenty years when Betty passed away peacefully to join him. Preceded in death also by an infant son, Kirk Walter (1958), Elizabeth is survived by her children, Karen Elizabeth (CA), Barbara Jane and husband, Chet Chmielewski (FL/UT), and Brian Earnest (NM); three grandchildren, David Rowe, son of Brian and his former wife, Katherine Marvel Rowe, Carolyn Chmielewski, Adam Chmielewski and his wife, Sarah, and a great-granddaughter, Josephine Noelle Chmielewski; her brother, Horace G. Leng, Jr. and his wife Amelie, their four children (Horace G. Leng, III, Steven, Christian, and Robyn Leng Barnes) and their families.
Burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Feasterville, PA, will be private, with a Memorial Service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Mary Circle of Hope Lutheran Church, 230 Christiana Rd., New Castle, DE 19720 or to Cokesbury Village, 726 Loveville Rd., Hockessin, DE 19707, in support of their ministry and residents' musical programs.
Funeral Home
McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc
3710 Kirkwood Hwy Wilmington, DE 19808
Published in The News Journal on Jan. 18, 2015
Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
AGE: 97 • Hockessin
(Mrs. Earnest W. Rowe)
Born in Philadelphia as the first child of Horace Greeley Leng and Irene Magdalene (Intemann) Leng, Elizabeth grew up in historic Fishtown, then in the Oxford Circle/Castor area of Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1934 from Frankford High. Having completed a two-year course at Palmer Business College, she was employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Life Insurance Company, for whom she worked until late 1943, despite a policy against employing married women. On August 2, 1940, Elizabeth had married Earnest Walter Rowe from Wyndmoor, PA. They met in 1937 while serving as Secretary and President of their district Luther League (a youth organization of the Lutheran Church.)
A war-time newlywed, in 1943-44 she accompanied Ernie to Anniston, AL, where he trained at Ft. McClellan before serving in the Rhineland-Central Europe campaign. State-side in Philadelphia, Elizabeth volunteered for the Red Cross, gave birth to Karen (1945), and welcomed Ernie home January 9, 1946. The births of Barbara (1947) and Brian (1948) followed his return.
A devoted partner with Ernie, whose 41 years with DuPont's Refinish Sales entailed frequent transfers, Betty readily adapted to new homes, communities and activities. She volunteered as school librarian/cataloguer, Cub Scout Den Leader, and Bible School teacher. An inveterate correspondent, note taker, and vacation chronicler, she also had a passion for family genealogies, antiques, and collectibles; knit steadily, including 100 baby afghans, the last for great-granddaughter, Josie; and loved music, as a pianist, singer of hymns, and toe-tapping listener.
Betty and Ernie remained devoted Lutherans, and since 1959 were early members of St. Philip's and then Hope Lutheran Church, in New Castle, DE, where Betty actively participated in the Mary Circle, as an officer for local chapters of Church Women United, and as Delaware District delegate to the National Ecumenical Assembly. A volunteer from the 1930s onward at the Germantown Lutheran Home for the Aged and Orphans, Betty later served as Maryland Synod representative to the Women's Auxiliary for the National Lutheran Home, and supported global missionary efforts as well as women in the clergy.
From age 4 until her health declined, Betty spent many summers at the Leng family cottage in Avalon, NJ, where she and Ernie and their family also spent many happy vacations. Enjoying a romance that lasted a lifetime, they celebrated their 73rd anniversary August 2, 2013, before Ernie died on November 21st of that year at age 99. They had been residents of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin for twenty years when Betty passed away peacefully to join him. Preceded in death also by an infant son, Kirk Walter (1958), Elizabeth is survived by her children, Karen Elizabeth (CA), Barbara Jane and husband, Chet Chmielewski (FL/UT), and Brian Earnest (NM); three grandchildren, David Rowe, son of Brian and his former wife, Katherine Marvel Rowe, Carolyn Chmielewski, Adam Chmielewski and his wife, Sarah, and a great-granddaughter, Josephine Noelle Chmielewski; her brother, Horace G. Leng, Jr. and his wife Amelie, their four children (Horace G. Leng, III, Steven, Christian, and Robyn Leng Barnes) and their families.
Burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Feasterville, PA, will be private, with a Memorial Service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Mary Circle of Hope Lutheran Church, 230 Christiana Rd., New Castle, DE 19720 or to Cokesbury Village, 726 Loveville Rd., Hockessin, DE 19707, in support of their ministry and residents' musical programs.
Funeral Home
McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc
3710 Kirkwood Hwy Wilmington, DE 19808
Published in The News Journal on Jan. 18, 2015
Elizabeth Jane Leng Rowe
AGE: 97 • Hockessin
(Mrs. Earnest W. Rowe)
Born in Philadelphia as the first child of Horace Greeley Leng and Irene Magdalene (Intemann) Leng, Elizabeth grew up in historic Fishtown, then in the Oxford Circle/Castor area of Philadelphia, where she graduated in 1934 from Frankford High. Having completed a two-year course at Palmer Business College, she was employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer and New York Life Insurance Company, for whom she worked until late 1943, despite a policy against employing married women. On August 2, 1940, Elizabeth had married Earnest Walter Rowe from Wyndmoor, PA. They met in 1937 while serving as Secretary and President of their district Luther League (a youth organization of the Lutheran Church.)
A war-time newlywed, in 1943-44 she accompanied Ernie to Anniston, AL, where he trained at Ft. McClellan before serving in the Rhineland-Central Europe campaign. State-side in Philadelphia, Elizabeth volunteered for the Red Cross, gave birth to Karen (1945), and welcomed Ernie home January 9, 1946. The births of Barbara (1947) and Brian (1948) followed his return.
A devoted partner with Ernie, whose 41 years with DuPont's Refinish Sales entailed frequent transfers, Betty readily adapted to new homes, communities and activities. She volunteered as school librarian/cataloguer, Cub Scout Den Leader, and Bible School teacher. An inveterate correspondent, note taker, and vacation chronicler, she also had a passion for family genealogies, antiques, and collectibles; knit steadily, including 100 baby afghans, the last for great-granddaughter, Josie; and loved music, as a pianist, singer of hymns, and toe-tapping listener.
Betty and Ernie remained devoted Lutherans, and since 1959 were early members of St. Philip's and then Hope Lutheran Church, in New Castle, DE, where Betty actively participated in the Mary Circle, as an officer for local chapters of Church Women United, and as Delaware District delegate to the National Ecumenical Assembly. A volunteer from the 1930s onward at the Germantown Lutheran Home for the Aged and Orphans, Betty later served as Maryland Synod representative to the Women's Auxiliary for the National Lutheran Home, and supported global missionary efforts as well as women in the clergy.
From age 4 until her health declined, Betty spent many summers at the Leng family cottage in Avalon, NJ, where she and Ernie and their family also spent many happy vacations. Enjoying a romance that lasted a lifetime, they celebrated their 73rd anniversary August 2, 2013, before Ernie died on November 21st of that year at age 99. They had been residents of Cokesbury Village in Hockessin for twenty years when Betty passed away peacefully to join him. Preceded in death also by an infant son, Kirk Walter (1958), Elizabeth is survived by her children, Karen Elizabeth (CA), Barbara Jane and husband, Chet Chmielewski (FL/UT), and Brian Earnest (NM); three grandchildren, David Rowe, son of Brian and his former wife, Katherine Marvel Rowe, Carolyn Chmielewski, Adam Chmielewski and his wife, Sarah, and a great-granddaughter, Josephine Noelle Chmielewski; her brother, Horace G. Leng, Jr. and his wife Amelie, their four children (Horace G. Leng, III, Steven, Christian, and Robyn Leng Barnes) and their families.
Burial in Sunset Memorial Park, Feasterville, PA, will be private, with a Memorial Service to be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be sent to the Mary Circle of Hope Lutheran Church, 230 Christiana Rd., New Castle, DE 19720 or to Cokesbury Village, 726 Loveville Rd., Hockessin, DE 19707, in support of their ministry and residents' musical programs.
Funeral Home
McCrery & Harra Funeral Homes & Crematory Inc
3710 Kirkwood Hwy Wilmington, DE 19808
Published in The News Journal on Jan. 18, 2015
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