Mary Johanna Lankenau

Interred 5/30/1873 Aged 52 ~~~~~~~ LANKENAU - On Tuesday afternoon, May 27, at 3 o'clock, MARY J., wife of John D. Lankenau, and daughter of the late Francis M. Drexel.

Date: Friday, May 30, 1873 Paper: Public Ledger (Philadelphia, PA) Volume: LXXV Issue: 57 Page: 2

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After Mary died in 1873, John Lankenau established — with the hospital deaconesses' help — the Mary J. Drexel Home for Aged and Homeless Patients of the German Hospital, a nursing home today known as the Mary J. Drexel Home.[2] The organization later opened a girls' school,[7] called first "The School for Girls of the Mary J. Drexel Home" and renamed in 1910 "The Lankenau School for Girls".[1] In June 1942, the school bought a 30-room manor house and a gatehouse on eight acres from the estate of William G. Warden, a son of a founder of Atlantic Refining Company, and moved to 3201 West School House Lane in Philadelphia. In 1972, the school sold the complex to Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science (today's Philadelphia University, which renovated the building and used it as a student center until demolishing it in 2006).[8] The Lankenau school moved to 201 Spring Lane, today the site of Philadelphia's Lankenau High School.