Daily News | Dorothy Riesdorph, longtime teacher, master community gardener, and award-winning gourmet cook, has died at 95
Dorothy Riesdorph, 95, of Philadelphia, longtime teacher at Smedley Elementary School, master community gardener, and award-winning gourmet cook, died Sunday, Feb. 5, of complications after a stroke at Holy Redeemer St. Joseph Manor in Meadowbrook.
“It has been quite an undertaking,” Mrs. Riesdorph told The Inquirer in 1984, referring to the 32,000-square-foot garden on the corner of Pratt and Charles Streets, just across from the school. “But now that we have done it, we’re going to start doing it all over again next spring.” Inquirer writer Edgar Williams called Mrs. Riesdorph “a natural for the old ‘Mission Impossible’ television show” for the ingenious efforts she expended to create the garden. “The main trouble we had was with weeds,” she told Inquirer writer Jim Quinn. “It was a very wet summer, and those weeds just seemed to spring up. I didn’t think the children would keep at the weeding, but they did. They came every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, all through the summer, from 9 to 12.
Born March 30, 1927, on a farm in Huntingdon Valley, Dorothy Ernestine Weisser grew up in Feasterville, graduated from Lower Moreland High School in 1945, and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education from the University of Pennsylvania. She met Henry Riesdorph at Penn, and they attended Reformed Episcopal Seminary together.
She started at Smedley in 1967, retired from full-time teaching in 1997, but continued working for another decade as a reading specialist. “She never wanted to see anyone without food or clothing and often supplied children in her classes with whatever they needed,” said her daughter Heidi Gibbons. “By the time she fully retired, she was teaching grandchildren of the original children.”
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