Suggested edit: Obituary from
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 Mar 1998:
Bernhard W. Fox
Company owner, 81
Bernhard Wilmsen Fox, 81, a retired manufacturer's representative, died Friday at his home.
Mr. Fox was born in Camden, Maine, and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Meadowbrook Country Day School and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and attended Drexel University.
During World War II, he worked as a production supervisor at Baldwin Locomotives. He later ran the family business, B. Wilmsen Inc., at one time the largest Christmas ornament manufacturer in the nation. Before retiring in 1981, he ran his own manufacturer's representative company, B.W. Fox & Associates.
Mr. Fox was commissioner of police in Lower Gwynedd Township from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, and he was active with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Lower Gwynedd Lions Club. He like to play golf and fished with the Upper Tunk Fishing Club in the Poconos.
Surviving are a son, S. Crozer Fox; daughters, Honor Fox Sage and Hope Fox Coates; a sister, Mrs. William F. Delafield, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Friday at 2 p.m. Interment will be private. Memorials can be made in care of Lower Gwynedd Township to the Penllyn Woods Fund, 1160 N. Bethlehem Pike, Spring House, Pa., 19477.
Contributor: Jeff Zinsli (46827392) • [email protected]
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 Mar 1998:
Bernhard W. Fox
Company owner, 81
Bernhard Wilmsen Fox, 81, a retired manufacturer's representative, died Friday at his home.
Mr. Fox was born in Camden, Maine, and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Meadowbrook Country Day School and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and attended Drexel University.
During World War II, he worked as a production supervisor at Baldwin Locomotives. He later ran the family business, B. Wilmsen Inc., at one time the largest Christmas ornament manufacturer in the nation. Before retiring in 1981, he ran his own manufacturer's representative company, B.W. Fox & Associates.
Mr. Fox was commissioner of police in Lower Gwynedd Township from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, and he was active with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Lower Gwynedd Lions Club. He like to play golf and fished with the Upper Tunk Fishing Club in the Poconos.
Surviving are a son, S. Crozer Fox; daughters, Honor Fox Sage and Hope Fox Coates; a sister, Mrs. William F. Delafield, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Friday at 2 p.m. Interment will be private. Memorials can be made in care of Lower Gwynedd Township to the Penllyn Woods Fund, 1160 N. Bethlehem Pike, Spring House, Pa., 19477.
Contributor: Jeff Zinsli (46827392) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: Obituary from
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 Mar 1998:
Bernhard W. Fox
Company owner, 81
Bernhard Wilmsen Fox, 81, a retired manufacturer's representative, died Friday at his home.
Mr. Fox was born in Camden, Maine, and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Meadowbrook Country Day School and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and attended Drexel University.
During World War II, he worked as a production supervisor at Baldwin Locomotives. He later ran the family business, B. Wilmsen Inc., at one time the largest Christmas ornament manufacturer in the nation. Before retiring in 1981, he ran his own manufacturer's representative company, B.W. Fox & Associates.
Mr. Fox was commissioner of police in Lower Gwynedd Township from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, and he was active with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Lower Gwynedd Lions Club. He like to play golf and fished with the Upper Tunk Fishing Club in the Poconos.
Surviving are a son, S. Crozer Fox; daughters, Honor Fox Sage and Hope Fox Coates; a sister, Mrs. William F. Delafield, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Friday at 2 p.m. Interment will be private. Memorials can be made in care of Lower Gwynedd Township to the Penllyn Woods Fund, 1160 N. Bethlehem Pike, Spring House, Pa., 19477.
Contributor: Jeff Zinsli (46827392) • [email protected]
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
23 Mar 1998:
Bernhard W. Fox
Company owner, 81
Bernhard Wilmsen Fox, 81, a retired manufacturer's representative, died Friday at his home.
Mr. Fox was born in Camden, Maine, and raised in Philadelphia. He graduated from Meadowbrook Country Day School and St. Paul's School in Concord, N.H., and attended Drexel University.
During World War II, he worked as a production supervisor at Baldwin Locomotives. He later ran the family business, B. Wilmsen Inc., at one time the largest Christmas ornament manufacturer in the nation. Before retiring in 1981, he ran his own manufacturer's representative company, B.W. Fox & Associates.
Mr. Fox was commissioner of police in Lower Gwynedd Township from the mid-1950s to mid-1960s. He was a member of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, and he was active with St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the Lower Gwynedd Lions Club. He like to play golf and fished with the Upper Tunk Fishing Club in the Poconos.
Surviving are a son, S. Crozer Fox; daughters, Honor Fox Sage and Hope Fox Coates; a sister, Mrs. William F. Delafield, and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services will be at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Friday at 2 p.m. Interment will be private. Memorials can be made in care of Lower Gwynedd Township to the Penllyn Woods Fund, 1160 N. Bethlehem Pike, Spring House, Pa., 19477.
Contributor: Jeff Zinsli (46827392) • [email protected]
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