Hattie Taylor Channell

Letters
December 21, 1920
August 5, 1930
December 1, 1936
August 13, 1937

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1904 Program:

Present address: 2037 East Huntington Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

Frances Doherty, Hattie Taylor and Edith Powell were in Baltimore to attend their class reunion.

March 1911 Kalends:

Hattie Green Taylor was married last summer to Mr. Wayne Channel of Philadelphia.

January 1913 Kalends:

Hattie Taylor Channel has a daughter, born November 24.

July 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie Taylor Channell has recently moved to Coatesville, Pennsylvania, where her husband is minister of a very large Methodist Church. Hattie has a lovely daughter at Goucher.

November 1930 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie Taylor Channell reports that her daughter Elizabeth has returned to Goucher for her sophomore year.

November 1933 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie Taylor Channell and Amelia Benson Bielaski were doubly proud as they walked up the aisle at COmmencement last June in cap and gown, for each had a daughter i the graduating class. Hattie has had a busy time since. She writes: "In June the church of which my husband was pastor at Coatesville entertained the members of the Philadelphia M.E. Conference.
This meant the entertainment of several hundred ministers and laymen for five days. On June 15 we moved to Swarthmore where my husband was appointed by the Conference as pastor of the M.E. Church. We were in our new home just two weeks when my daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Calvert Randolph Jones, Jr., of Baltimore. As they expect to live in Baltimore, I hope to visit the College often when I go to see them. My other daughter, Dorothy, expects to return to Mount Holyoke for her Junior year."

May 1938 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie Taylor Channell has been living in East Stroudsburg, Pa., for the past year, where she finds a big work for a minister and his wife. Of their winter vacation trip to Florida she writes:
"We toured the state quite well, stopping at St. Petersburg, Miami, Palm Beach, Jacksonville and St. Augustine. We took trips along the Gulf Coast, the Everglades, the citrus belt, visiting the Bok Tower and Cypress Gardens. On our way home we had an unfortunate experienc e. We reached Wilmington, NC, at nightfall. Rain began to fall. The lights on our car were not working properly. My husband stopped at a service station where such work was repaired, gotone of the men to drive us to a hotel for the night and the man promised to lock our car up for the night and repair the lights so that we could get an early start home. Just as we left the dining room of the hotel we met the man from the service station in the lobby and he told us that our car had been stolen! All our clothes except what we had in our overnight bags were in the car so we made the best of things for two days. A minister's wife who was staying at the hotel loaned me her winter coat and i took the night sleeper for Philadelphia. There I bought some new clothes, met my husband who returned the next day and we came back to Stroudsburg by train. In a few days our car was returned to us by the insurance company. It had been driven 250 miles from Wilmington to Petersburg, Va., and had been parked there two or three days before being found. It was in fairly good condition and we recovered most of the clothing."
Hattie has joined the A.A.U.W. in Stroudsburg, where there are eight Goucher graduate members, including Florences Pipher Calkins '04.

July 1939 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie Taylor Channell came, as chipper and happy as ever. She loves her work, and summer home in the Poconos. She frequently visits her daughter, Betty, in Baltimore. All her family have spread their wings and flown.

November 1940 Alumnae Quarterly:

Hattie's husband is the Methodist minister at East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. In the summer, they live at Mountain Home, near Buck Hill Falls; and in January they go to Florida. At other times Hattie is going to Baltimore to see her married daughter and her grandson, or to Philadelphia to see her other children. I should say Hattie has a full and happy life, and is always on the go.

July 1942 Alumnae Quarterly:

A nice letter came from Hattie Taylor Channell, which sounds as though she is having a very comfortablelife. Dr. Channell has retired from the ministry. They spend their winters in Florida, visit their married daughter in Baltimore, and enjoy a summer home at Mountain Home, near Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. It was refreshing to get Hattie's letter and find a life that could run so comfortably and so smoothly, yet have diversions.

May 1944 Alumnae Quarterly:

HATTIE TAYLOR CHANNELL
It is with great sorrow that we record the death, on February 29, of Hattie Taylor Channell, wife of the Rev. Wayne Channell, devorted classmate and alumna, and a generous supporter of the Alumnae Fund.
Hattie had just finished writing a letter to her son, then stationed in the Hebrides, Lt. Commander John W. Channell, U.S.N. when she was stricken with a cerebral hemorrhage from which she died. The death occured at her hom, 284 Congress Avenue, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Dr. and Mrs. Channell only recently bought the house and had lived in it for five months, deriving great pleasure in selecting the furniture, the last piece of which was bought just before her death. Dr. Channell had retired from the Methodist ministry three years ago.
Hattie had lived a full life, dividing her time with her husband between church work and the rearing and educating of their five children, all of whom, like their parents, are outstanding members of the communities in which they live. They are, in addition to Lt. Commander Channell: A daughter, Isabel, wife of Dr. Neil Whittaker, a prominent physician of Hackensack, N.J.; Ruth CHannell who is with the Red Cross in Philadelphia; Elizabeth, a graduate of Goucher in the class of 1933 and the wife of Norman Wood who is with the Consolidated Gas Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore; and Dorothy Channell who is with the Appleton Century Publishing COmpany in New York. There are four grandchildren.
Members of the Class of 1903 join in sending sympathy to her sorrowing husband and family. EMILIE DOETSCH '03.