i. EDWARD LANGDON3
BURWELL, b. 07 Dec 1919, Seattle, Washington5; d.
26 May 1993, Falmouth, Massachusetts6.
Notes for EDWARD LANGDON BURWELL:
Edward was a medical doctor.
ii. WILLIAM OWINGS BURWELL, b. Abt.
1921, Seattle, Washington7; d. 06 Aug 2003,
Savannah, Georgia7; m. HARRIET HOPPER7,
06 Jun 1945, Christ Church, Pittsford, New York7;
b. 18 Aug 1923, Staunton, Illinois7; d. 11 Apr
2004, Savannah, Georgia7.
Obituary for WILLIAM OWINGS
BURWELL:
Bill died Aug. 6, 2003, in
Savannah.
Born in Seattle, he prepared at
Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from Princeton with honors in
architecture. He was a member of Tower Club. After seven WWII
submarine war patrols as electronics officer on the USS Gurnard and
a Bronze Star, Bill married Harriet "Toni" Hopper in 1945.
He returned to Princeton and received an MFA in architecture in
1949. He and Toni had two children, Pamela and Michael.
For 13 years, our creative
classmate practiced with John Graham & Co. in Seattle. His pride
and joy was the Ala Moana Center in Hawaii, which featured the
first-ever rotating restaurant. Bill’s diversified community
services included command of the Seattle submarine reserves, and his
work as commanding officer of two peacetime submarine patrols. He
retired as commander in 1962 when he moved the family to Rochester,
N.Y., to begin his own architecture practice.
In Rochester, Bill served on the
beautification committee, was chairman of the urban design
commission, and was an Episcopalian vestryman. In retirement at
Falmouth, Mass., Bill left a legacy of beautification and protection
of the environment and public land.
Heartfelt sympathy goes to Toni;
Pam and Michael; five grandchildren, including Amy Haenel ’93; and
seven great-grandchildren.
The Class of 1942
Source: http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/archive_new/PAW03-04/07-0128/memorials.html
Notes for HARRIET HOPPER:
Obituary in the Savannah Morning
News, April 15, 2004:
A faithful Christian, devoted wife
and mother, Toni Burwell died April 11, 2004, Easter Sunday in
Savannah, Georgia at Savannah Square under hospice care. Born in
Staunton, Illinois, August 18, 1923, she was the daughter of the
late Harry Edward Hopper and Hannah Dohr Luker Hopper. Toni married
William Owings Burwell, June 6, 1945 in Christ Church, Pittsford,
NY. She was widowed in August of last year after 58 years of
marriage. The Burwells formerly resided in Falmouth, MA, Rochester,
NY and Seattle, WA. Toni attended William Woods College in Fulton,
Missouri and was a 1945 graduate of Northwestern University. She was
a psychology major and mathematics minor and a sixty-year member of
Kappa Delta sorority. Moving to Seattle, Washington as a young
mother, Toni devoted herself to raising her two children. She was an
avid gardener and member of the Seattle Arboretum Society. She and
Bill were founding members of a new Church, St. George's Episcopal
Church, where she taught Sunday School, worked with the Church
women's group, and served on the altar guild. In 1962, when the
family moved to Rochester, New York, Toni continued her work with
the women of the Church as a member of fifth chapter of the
Episcopal Church Women of St. Thomas Episcopal Church. In addition,
she began a career as an elementary school teacher at The Allendale
School and worked as a volunteer for the Landmark Society and the
Rochester Museum. After retirement she and Bill moved permanently to
the family home on Cape Cod. An active member of the Church of the
Messiah in Woods Hole, Toni was a lay reader, member of the altar
guild, served the homeless and AIDS victims, and was a great
supporter of home Church. She spent her life helping others. She
loved gardening, sailing and traveling with her husband, reading,
stock market investing, and she always loved a good party and a good
joke. Mrs. Burwell is survived by her brother, Harry Edward Hopper,
Jr. and sister-in-law, Florence Mazenko Hopper, another
sister-in-law, Barbara Gates Burwell of Woods Hole, Massachusetts;
children and spouses, Pamela Burwell Benton and Barrett Gilbert
Benton of Savannah, Georgia, Michael Hopper Burwell and Sally Joyce
Carricaburu of Anchorage, Alaska; grandchildren and spouses, Brooke
Owings Burwell, Amy Benton Haenel and Hal Herman Haenel, Jr.,
Barrett Gilbert Benton, Jr. and Katherine McGarity Benton, Kenneth
James Phillips and Jennifer Owings Phillips, Jessica Marie Duncan
and Will Platzek, and great grandchildren, Walker Lee Platzek,
Elizabeth Grace Platzek, Chase Michael Platzek, Sofia Lynn Phillips,
Nicholas James Phillips and Talia Phillips and Katherine Barrett
Benton. A memorial service will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. Jack
Dyer and the Rev. James M. Dorn III at St. Thomas Episcopal Church
on Wednesday, April 14 at 3:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 2 St. Thomas Avenue,
Savannah, GA 31406, Hospice of Savannah, Inc. P.O. Box 13190,
Savannah, GA 31416, The Church of the Messiah, 12 Church Street,
Woods Hole, MA 02543 or a favorite charity. Fox & Weeks Funeral
Directors Hodgson Chapel
Savannah Morning News, April 15,
2004
