Eleanor Louise Stratton Wetherill

Wetherill—Eleanor Louise Stratton Wetherill, 91, on August 3, 2024, in Orange City, Fla. Eleanor was born on May 22, 1933, to Stanley and Marjorie Stratton in Flushing, Ohio. Eleanor was a great help to her father on their family farm.

Eleanor was a lifelong Quaker. During her early years, meetings for worship were held in her great-grandparents’ farmhouse in Flushing. She attended Middleton Meeting in Ohio as a young teen. In 1951, she graduated from Olney Friends School in Barnesville, Ohio. Eleanor worked in the school’s kitchen preparing meals during the year following her graduation.

Eleanor married John Mitchell Wetherill on September 8, 1956. She and John had two children and shared 57 wonderful years together before his passing in 2014.

Eleanor was a member of Chester (Pa.) Meeting from 1960 to 1987. In 1965, Eleanor took over volunteer duties for her mother-in-law at the Hickman, a Friends home for seniors in West Chester, Pa. She was the editor of a charity cookbook for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Oncology Unit in remembrance of her son, Steven James, who passed away from leukemia in 1977.

Eleanor and John moved to Florida in 1987. She was a member of Winter Park Meeting in Orlando from 1987 to 1994, and then the Deland (Fla.) Fellowship Group until she moved to an apartment in the John Knox Village retirement community. She was a volunteer driver for the American Cancer Society and delivered meals for Meals on Wheels for 20 years, along with many other volunteer activities on the campus of John Knox Village. Once Eleanor stopped driving, she held meetings for worship with one or two friends in her apartment.

Eleanor was predeceased by her husband, John Wetherill; and a son, Steven James Wetherill.

She is survived by one child, Anita L. Wetherill; one sister-in-law, Alice Minthorn Wetherill; four nieces; and one nephew.