Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Sarah Meade HARRISON
Sarah Meade Harrison Price, 99, the widow of a prominent Center City lawyer, the great-granddaughter of a Civil War general, and a quietly persistent champion of the mansions of Fairmount Park, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure at Springfield Residence retirement community in Wyndmoor.
Before moving there in 1993, she had lived in Chestnut Hill for more than 70 years.
She was married for 67 years to Philip Price Sr., former Pennsylvania Railroad counsel, chairman of the Committee of Seventy, and Fairmount Park commissioner. He died in 1989.
Mrs. Price dedicated herself to community service. She was one of the original members of the Committee of 1926, which was established that year to restore and maintain historic Strawberry Mansion in Fairmount Park. She also was a member of the organization that maintains the Lemon Hill Mansion.
Over the years, she also served on the boards of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Preston Retreat, a maternity facility for young women that became a part of Pennsylvania Hospital. She was a longtime member of the women's committee of the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Born in Philadelphia, she was the great-granddaughter of Union Army Gen. George Gordon Meade. In a different way, she also served her country - in two wars.
During World War I, she was a volunteer for Emergency Aid, an Episcopal women's organization, and during World War II, she worked with a service that drove military officers to defense plants in the region.
A lover of nature and the outdoors, she often spent autumn weeks in Wyoming, where she rode horseback and fished for trout.
Mrs. Price is survived by sons Philip Jr. and John; daughters Sarah Chittenden, Evelyn Scott and Nancy Hiestand; 17 grandchildren; and 29 great-grandchildren.
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