Primrose Woolverton

Primrose Woolverton, age 100 years, of Raritan Township, NJ died on February 1, 1987 at the Hunterdon Nursing Home in Raritan Township, NJ.

She was born in Pocomoke City, MD on March 7, 1886, she was the daughter of the late Dr. William H. Woolverton and Minnie Primrose Dickenson.

She was the Executive Director of the Y.W.C.A. in Hartford, CT.

The arrangements were private under the direction of the Holcombe-Fisher Funeral Home.

*An excerpt from a publication called: "Notable Women of Hunterdon County"*

PRIMROSE WOOLVERTON

The descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Primrose Woolverton was born in Pocomoke, MD on March 7, 1886 and died more than 100 years later. On the celebration of her 100th birthday, she maintained that reaching the century mark was “no big deal.” She was the daughter of a distinguished Presbyterian minister, and as a young woman lived in a house that her family had owned since the Revolutionary War. Today, that Stockton home is known as the Woolverton Inn. She was graduated with honors from Vassar College in 1906, and went on to work in a physics lab and then to teaching physics at Vassar. After further work in Tarrytown, NY, she became an English teacher at Reading Academy in Flemington. From 1916 to 1944, she served as executive director of a number of YWCAs on the east coast -- in Trenton, the Oranges, Manchester, NH, and Hartford, CT where Woolverton Hall was named in her honor. Returning to Stockton in 1944, she took up residence at the family homestead. Her active mind and enthusiasm propelled her into all sorts of activities. Miss Woolverton was known for her stenciled tinware and dried flower prints. She became president of the League of Women Voters and the Delaware Council of Church Women, a member of the Lambertville Kalmia Club, a Sunday school teacher and church trustee. It was only when she was in her late 80's and could no longer drive, that she moved with her niece to a small house near Flemington. The once active woman was later confined to a wheelchair and spent her remaining years in a convalescent center.