POMPANO RESIDENT T.B. WANAMAKER JR., GRANDSON OF DEPARTMENT STORE FOUNDER: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Services will be held in Connecticut for Thomas B. Wanamaker Jr., whose grandfather founded Wanamaker's, America's first retail department-store chain, in the 1860s.
Mr. Wanamaker, a Broward resident for 10 years, died Saturday of heart failure in Pompano Beach. He was 87.
Originally from Ridgefield, Conn., Mr. Wanamaker moved to Deerfield Beach in the 1970s, then settled in Pompano Beach, said Katherine Easson, a family friend.
His grandfather, John Wanamaker, opened the first store in the chain in 1861, in Philadelphia. He opened the New York store in 1896.
Elizabeth Nash of Cocoa Beach, a former managing editor of the weekly Ridgefield (Conn.) Press newspaper, said Mr. Wanamaker was active in the department store chain, which no longer is family-owned.
"As I understood it, he was one of the busy Wanamakers," Nash said.
During his years in Ridgefield, Mr. Wanamaker lived in a big house on Olmstead Lane, said Jack Sanders, managing editor of The Ridgefield Press, who lived down the street from Wanamaker. He last saw Mr. Wanamaker just before he moved to Florida.
"He was old and very private," Sanders said. "We would see him walking up the street all by himself -- it's kind of like a country lane. He moved very slowly."
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by a half-brother, Archibald Thomson, of Radnor, Pa., and two nieces, Mrs. Francis B. Rice of Huntington, N.Y., and Mrs. James B. Watriss of Virginia.
Interment of ashes will be conducted at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Conn. The arrangements are being handled in Connecticut by Kane Funeral Home in Ridgefield and, in South Florida, by Fred Hunter's Fort Lauderdale Home.
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Services will be held in Connecticut for Thomas B. Wanamaker Jr., whose grandfather founded Wanamaker's, America's first retail department-store chain, in the 1860s.
Mr. Wanamaker, a Broward resident for 10 years, died Saturday of heart failure in Pompano Beach. He was 87.
Originally from Ridgefield, Conn., Mr. Wanamaker moved to Deerfield Beach in the 1970s, then settled in Pompano Beach, said Katherine Easson, a family friend.
His grandfather, John Wanamaker, opened the first store in the chain in 1861, in Philadelphia. He opened the New York store in 1896.
Elizabeth Nash of Cocoa Beach, a former managing editor of the weekly Ridgefield (Conn.) Press newspaper, said Mr. Wanamaker was active in the department store chain, which no longer is family-owned.
"As I understood it, he was one of the busy Wanamakers," Nash said.
During his years in Ridgefield, Mr. Wanamaker lived in a big house on Olmstead Lane, said Jack Sanders, managing editor of The Ridgefield Press, who lived down the street from Wanamaker. He last saw Mr. Wanamaker just before he moved to Florida.
"He was old and very private," Sanders said. "We would see him walking up the street all by himself -- it's kind of like a country lane. He moved very slowly."
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by a half-brother, Archibald Thomson, of Radnor, Pa., and two nieces, Mrs. Francis B. Rice of Huntington, N.Y., and Mrs. James B. Watriss of Virginia.
Interment of ashes will be conducted at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Conn. The arrangements are being handled in Connecticut by Kane Funeral Home in Ridgefield and, in South Florida, by Fred Hunter's Fort Lauderdale Home.
POMPANO RESIDENT T.B. WANAMAKER JR., GRANDSON OF DEPARTMENT STORE FOUNDER: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Services will be held in Connecticut for Thomas B. Wanamaker Jr., whose grandfather founded Wanamaker's, America's first retail department-store chain, in the 1860s.
Mr. Wanamaker, a Broward resident for 10 years, died Saturday of heart failure in Pompano Beach. He was 87.
Originally from Ridgefield, Conn., Mr. Wanamaker moved to Deerfield Beach in the 1970s, then settled in Pompano Beach, said Katherine Easson, a family friend.
His grandfather, John Wanamaker, opened the first store in the chain in 1861, in Philadelphia. He opened the New York store in 1896.
Elizabeth Nash of Cocoa Beach, a former managing editor of the weekly Ridgefield (Conn.) Press newspaper, said Mr. Wanamaker was active in the department store chain, which no longer is family-owned.
"As I understood it, he was one of the busy Wanamakers," Nash said.
During his years in Ridgefield, Mr. Wanamaker lived in a big house on Olmstead Lane, said Jack Sanders, managing editor of The Ridgefield Press, who lived down the street from Wanamaker. He last saw Mr. Wanamaker just before he moved to Florida.
"He was old and very private," Sanders said. "We would see him walking up the street all by himself -- it's kind of like a country lane. He moved very slowly."
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by a half-brother, Archibald Thomson, of Radnor, Pa., and two nieces, Mrs. Francis B. Rice of Huntington, N.Y., and Mrs. James B. Watriss of Virginia.
Interment of ashes will be conducted at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Conn. The arrangements are being handled in Connecticut by Kane Funeral Home in Ridgefield and, in South Florida, by Fred Hunter's Fort Lauderdale Home.
Miami Herald, The (FL) - Tuesday, February 26, 1991
Services will be held in Connecticut for Thomas B. Wanamaker Jr., whose grandfather founded Wanamaker's, America's first retail department-store chain, in the 1860s.
Mr. Wanamaker, a Broward resident for 10 years, died Saturday of heart failure in Pompano Beach. He was 87.
Originally from Ridgefield, Conn., Mr. Wanamaker moved to Deerfield Beach in the 1970s, then settled in Pompano Beach, said Katherine Easson, a family friend.
His grandfather, John Wanamaker, opened the first store in the chain in 1861, in Philadelphia. He opened the New York store in 1896.
Elizabeth Nash of Cocoa Beach, a former managing editor of the weekly Ridgefield (Conn.) Press newspaper, said Mr. Wanamaker was active in the department store chain, which no longer is family-owned.
"As I understood it, he was one of the busy Wanamakers," Nash said.
During his years in Ridgefield, Mr. Wanamaker lived in a big house on Olmstead Lane, said Jack Sanders, managing editor of The Ridgefield Press, who lived down the street from Wanamaker. He last saw Mr. Wanamaker just before he moved to Florida.
"He was old and very private," Sanders said. "We would see him walking up the street all by himself -- it's kind of like a country lane. He moved very slowly."
Mr. Wanamaker is survived by a half-brother, Archibald Thomson, of Radnor, Pa., and two nieces, Mrs. Francis B. Rice of Huntington, N.Y., and Mrs. James B. Watriss of Virginia.
Interment of ashes will be conducted at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Ridgefield, Conn. The arrangements are being handled in Connecticut by Kane Funeral Home in Ridgefield and, in South Florida, by Fred Hunter's Fort Lauderdale Home.
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