Richard Farmer, EHD70, and Dottie Hopkins Farmer, EHD70, had a brief encounter as high schoolers and became their “inseparable” during their University of Delaware days. On campus, they dreamt of their life together and made it a reality.
Jean M. Steffe, 63, of Harbeson Del., and a lifelong resident of Lewes, Del., passed away on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. She was born in Lewes on Feb. 15, 1958,
Goodbye Girl - Ann Grunert is the executive director at Special Olympics Delaware and is retiring as soon as she can sneak out the side door after 36 years on the job. “It’s been a labor of love,” Ann told me Sunday after walking the Sea Colony.
May 9, 2021
Elizabeth J. Lynch, 95, family matriarch and native of Lewes passed away Wednesday, May 5, 2021, in the home her family has lived in since her birth. She was born on New Year’s Day, 1926, at Beebe Hospital, daughter of the late Meta (Green) and Preston Joseph.
When she was 3, her parents built one of the first cottages on Lewes Beach where she enjoyed an idyllic childhood. As a young adult, Lib spent summers helping children with special needs at the Children’s Beach House. Her family would move to the beach for the summer and return to their home, in town, after Labor Day.
April 18, 2021
Rosalie I. Schmitt, affectionately known as “Rosie” or “RoRo,” 83, of Lewes passed away surrounded by her loving family Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Christiana Care in Newark.
Rosie was born in Lewes Feb. 16, 1938, daughter of the late William Brack Porter and Vera Emily (Holston) Porter. She was a graduate of Lewes High School class of 1956.
Rosie began her working career as a secretary at Stokely-Van Camp in Rehoboth Beach. After meeting her husband, Frederick Schmitt, and starting her family she began her true vocation as a mom. Being a Navy wife, she quickly learned how to organize large events to small intimate dinners with the officers and men of her husband’s ships at various navy bases.