Daily News | Molly Hartzell, pioneering social worker and elder rights advocate, dies at 94
Molly Hartzell, 94, of Gladwyne, a pioneering social worker who first assisted children and teens in need and then became a tireless counselor to seniors and an advocate for elder rights, died Saturday, April 2, of lymphoma at Pennsylvania Hospital.
Beginning in 1977, when many organized elder care services were still emerging, Mrs. Hartzell marched to the forefront of the movement and became a senior social worker and director of the Lower Merion-Narberth Coalition for Older Adults. In that role, she was instrumental in creating a local adult day-care center and long-term care consortium among nursing homes and assisted living centers.
“She was a born social worker,” said former colleague Dorothy McCabe. “She was knowledgeable, compassionate, and capable. She taught me a lot.” Born Feb. 22, 1928, in Lancaster, Pa., Molly Storb graduated from Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., in 1949. Declining her family’s suggestion to become a secretary, she returned to Massachusetts and earned a master’s degree in social work from Boston University in 1953.
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