Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Ann Elizabeth WOLFF
Ann Elizabeth Newbold, 85,
Botanist; Quaker peace activist
Ann Elizabeth Newbold, 85, botanist and Quaker peace activist, died July 14 at Lima Estates.
Mrs. Newbold grew up in Lima, surrounded by her family's apple orchard. She attended Media High School and graduated from Temple University.
In 1944 she married the late Albert G. Newbold, with whom she lived in Lima and then near Pottstown.
She was a Quaker who advocated diligently for nuclear disarmament and racial equality during the 1950s. She co-founded the Pottstown Peace Committee and became a draft counselor.
A botanist, she created a wildflower preserve in Montgomery County that featured more than a thousand species of plants.
She presented slide lectures, led field trips and taught wildflower identification at the Morris Arboretum, the Jenkins Arboretum, the Barnes Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Newbold wrote a botanical history of Montgomery County which appeared in the 1983 publication "Montgomery County: The Second Hundred Years."
She and her partner, Heinrich Zoller, divided their time between Pennsylvania and Switzerland until she moved to Lima Estates in 2003.
She was the daughter of the late Frank Bayne Wolff and Helen McIlwain Wolff.
Survivors: Companion, Heinrich Zoller of Basel, Switzerland; brother, Kenneth Wolff of Lima; sons, Denis Newbold of Cochranville, Edward Newbold of Seattle; daughter, Monica Shay of New York, N.Y.; three grandchildren.
Service: 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, Middle Friends Meeting, 435 Middletown Road, Lima.
Contributions: American Friends Service Committee, AFSC Development, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102.
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