Person:Mabel Anderson (6)

BIOGRAPHY: Courier - Gazette Newark http://www.cgazette.com/Common/News/1998/Mar98news/889129688703.html Rotary honors Mabel Knight Mabel A. Knight, widow of T. Spencer Knight, was presented a Paul Harris Fellow Award by Newark Rotary in honor of her 75 years of community service. Mrs. Knight received a lapel pin and certificate naming her a Paul Harris Fellow and a contribution of $1,000 was made to the Rotary Foundation in her name. The donation is to be used for the Polio Plus Program - enough funding to provide enough vaccine to immunize 10,000 children. Rotary's goal is to eliminate polio from around the world by the year 2005. Mabel was born in Moberly, MO in 1901, grew up in Seattle, attended University of Washington, where she met Spence Knight. They were married in 1924 and moved to Newark when Spencer went to work for C.H. Stuart and Co. Mabel was kept busy raising their daughter Nancy (Bloomer) and son, Tom. She organized the first Parent-Teacher Association in Newark. Tom Knight and his wife Kathy flew in from Greenwich, CT to join sister Nancy Bloomer in honoring their mother. (They are all pictured here.) At St. Mark's Episcopal Church she served as a Sunday School teacher, member of the Altar Guild and became the president of the Episcopal Churchwomen of the Diocese of Rochester. She served as a Cub Scout Den Mother and volunteered as a "Gray Lady" at the Canandaigua Veterans Hospital. During World War II, she sold War Bonds from the stage of the Schine's Capitol Theater in downtown Newark. When the Newark Hospital was built, she worked in the Central Supply area. Mrs. Knight has six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren and marvels at communicating with them on the Internet. The last few years of her life have been filled with challenges, including the loss of her eyesight, and the illness and death of her beloved husband. But her spirited determination to remain independent and "do" for others has not changed. She visits shut-in friends several times a week. The Paul Harris presentation was made by Rotary President Beth Palmer, assisted by Bob Goodman (District Polio Plus Chairman) and Gerry Palmer (District Ambassadorial Scholarship Chairman). Paul Harris was the founding president of Rotary International.

Courier - Gazette Newark http://www.cgazette.com/Common/News/2001/Aug01news/998492004080.html Today (August 22, 2001) marks the 100th birthday of Mabel Anderson Knight. In 1923, newlywed Mabel Anderson Knight arrived in Newark with her husband, T. Spencer Knight. The couple had graduated from Washington University in Seattle, and Mr. Knight accepted a position with C.H. Stuart and Co. Spence' was the first Sergeant at Arms of the new club. The Newark Rotary was recently honored by a visit from Mrs. Knight. She received a dozen roses from the club, and in turn presented Rotary with a gift, following the tradition of her late husband. T. Spencer Knight was one of 23 men who, in October of 1926, founded the Newark Rotary Club. (2001 is the 75th birthday of the Club.) Mrs. Knight and daughter, Nancy Knight Bloomer, are pictured in John Zornow's 1948 Ford, in which they were driven to the Rotary Club meeting.

DEATH: Social Security Death Index Name: Mabel A. Knight SSN: 057-38-3363 Last Residence: 14513 Newark, Wayne, New York, United States of America Born: 22 Aug 1901 Died: 1 Jan 2003 State (Year) SSN issued: New York (1963 ) Source Citation: Number: 057-38-3363;Issue State: New York;Issue Date: 1963.

OBITUARY: Courier - Gazette Newark January - March 2003 Knight, Mabel - Mabel Anderson Knight, 101, of Newark, died January 1, 2003 at her home. Mabel was born in Moberly, Missouri, on August 22, 1901, daughter of Jesse Logan and Mabel Felton Anderson. She graduated from the University of Washington and came to Newark following her 1923 marriage to T. Spencer Knight. Mrs. Knight was active in the work of the Episcopal Church, serving as President of the Diocesan Churchwomen and on the Board of the Church Home for many years. She and her husband enjoyed birdwatching all over the world. Interment in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. She is survived by a daughter, Nancy (Kemp) Bloomer of Newark; and a son, Thomas S. (Kathleen) Knight of Greenwich, CT; six grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren. Mabel was predeceased by her husband in 1997 and by three brothers, Logan, Charles and Robert Anderson.