April 18, 2018 - ChaddsFordLive.com

They played the violin

_1JF5346-Carol-plays — Carol Armstrong Lovelace plays one of the Sanderson violins Wednesday evening during a one-night exhibition on Chris Sanderson violins.

For Sally Jane Denk Hoey it was a long-awaited labor of love. Hoey, a singer who was once billed as the Bard of the Brandywine, is a past president of the Sanderson Museum in Chadds Ford and three years ago she decided that the violins Chris Sanderson once played had to be heard again.

“This has been a long-time dream of mine,” Hoey said. “The violins were just sitting flat on a shelf where it was cold in the winter and hot in the summer. These were violins that had been heard by thousands of people when Chris played, but they’ve been mute for more than 50 years and need to be heard. They’re no good unless people can hear them.”

First, though, they had to be conserved and brought back to playing condition. That done, Hoey curated a one-night exhibition at the museum Wednesday night.

The musician was Carol Armstrong Lovelace, a Pocopson Township native and product of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School system. She studied at Julliard and in Japan, has performed worldwide and teaches music.

There are a total of nine violins in the Sanderson collection, three of which were restored to concert condition.

Sanderson, a collector of a variety of historic memorabilia, was born in 1882 and lived until 1966. He and his mother lived in the Ring House, the home George Washington used as his headquarters the night before the 1777 Battle of Brandywine, and later moved to the small house on N. Creek Road that is now the Sanderson Museum.

He began studying violin in 1892, conducted The Old Fiddler’s Picnic in the 1920s and founded the Pocopson Valley Boys in the 1930s.

For more information on Sanderson or the museum, go to www.sandersonmuseum.org, phone 610-388-6545 or email museum curator Chuck Ulmann at curator@sandersonmuseum.org.

About Rich Schwartzman

Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.

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Dolores Ann Nobile Keating of Kennett Square

Obituaries

Dolores Ann Nobile Keating, 87, of Kennett Square, died Sunday, April 15, at the Onslow Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, N.C. She was the wife of the late Donald Francis Keating, who died in 2000 and with whom she shared 43 years of marriage.

Born in Columbia, Pa., she was a daughter of the late Michael and the late Carmella (Russo) Nobile.

Dolores graduated from Millersville University with a bachelor’s degree in English. She was a teacher and retired from Kennett Consolidated School District. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church.

Survivors include one daughter, Antoinette Keating Hilyard of Ruther Glen, Va.; three sons, Kevin Keating (Nora) of Cochranville, Donald F. Keating (Donna) of Avondale, and Sean Keating (Kelly) of Jacksonville, N.C. and eight grandchildren, Christina, Jonathon, Kelly, Jonathon, Sean, Katherine, Matthew and Christina.

You are invited to Dolores’s Mass of Resurrection at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 21, at St. Patrick Church, 212 Meredith Street, Kennett Square, PA 19348. Interment will be in St. Patrick Cemetery, Kennett Square. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Our Lady of Consolation Church 603 W 2nd Ave, Parkesburg, PA 19365. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, please visit www.griecocares.com

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Frances Ferranto of Kennett Square

Obituaries

Frances Ferranto, 73, of Kennett Square, died Monday April 16, at the Pocopson Home in West Chester, after a long illness. Born in West Chester, she was a daughter of the late Pietro Ferranto and the late Anna Rita (Macellaro) Ferranto.

Frances was a longtime resident of Kennett Square and a life-long parishioner of St. Patrick Church.

She graduated Kennett High School and started her career at J.B. Swayne Mushroom where she worked for 35 years. Her love of the outdoors was evident with her small vegetable garden and her beautiful display of seasonal flowers which adorned her yard in the borough. It was fitting that she later completed her career working at Longwood Gardens. She enjoyed life as a borough resident where you would regularly see her taking morning walks with friends and volunteering for local charities including The Mushroom Festival. Frances was a sun worshiper and had done so in many places around the globe.

She travelled extensively and was always eager for a new adventure. Other hobbies included ceramics and playing cards with friends. She had a loyal group of friends who remained close throughout the years. Family was dear to her heart. Frances was a loving daughter, sister and aunt, opening up her home to two generations of nieces and nephews. This was a tradition started by her mother for whom she cared for until her death. Aunt Fran was everyone’s favorite.

She is survived by one sister, Loretta Battaglia of Landenberg; one brother, Robert Ferranto Sr. of Avondale; Godmother to Leslie Brooks Bernens (Joe), Julianne Toto, and the late Robert Ferranto Jr.; nieces and nephews, LouAnn BascianiToto, Linda Brooks Wanex (Bruce), Peter Ferranto (Kim), Gale Ferranto Coon (Bill), Eileen Palmer Ferranto, and Jennifer Ferranto and their children and grandchildren. She was predeceased by her sister Anna Marie (Dolly) Basciani Brooks and brother, Louis Ferranto, both of Avondale.

You are invited to visit with Frances’s family and friends from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Friday April 20, at Kuzo & Grieco Funeral Home Inc. (610-444-4116) 250 W. State St. Kennett Square, PA 19348. Her Mass of Christian Burial will follow at St. Patrick Church 212 Meredith Street. Interment will be in St. Patrick Cemetery. Contributions in her memory may be made to The Mushroom Festival (In memo, Mushroom Run & Fun Walk) P.O. Box 1000 Kennett Square, PA 19348. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, please visit www.griecocares.com

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Police Log April 18: DUIs, drug drop offs

Police

Pennsylvania State Police

• A traffic stop for a violation led to a 24-year-old male from Delaware being popped for drug possession in Kennett Township. A state police report said the man, unnamed in the report, had a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. The incident happened at 2:52 p.m. on April 15.

• On April 12, at 6:35 p.m., police made a traffic stop in the 300 block of Longwood Road in East Marlborough Township. A report said the driver, from Kennett Township, was under the influence of a controlled substance and possessed heroin and crack cocaine. Police did not name the suspect.

• State police said Dasch Arthur Jarrett, 34, of Drexel Hill, was arrested for DUI and possession of a small amount of marijuana following a traffic stop on E. Baltimore Pike and Lenape Road in Kennett Township on March 17.

• On Thursday, April 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Pennsylvania State Police at the Media barracks — 1342 W. Baltimore Pike, Media — will give people the chance to safely get rid of potentially dangerous, unused or outdated drugs. The collection is done in connection with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. (The DEA cannot accept liquids or needles or sharps, only pills or patches.) The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked. On Saturday, April 28, Kennett Township Police will hold a similar event. That collection will take place at 801 Burrows Run Road in Kennett Township.

Southern Chester County Regional Police

• Police said Hector Sanchez-Perez, 28, of Avondale was arrested and charged with DUI and related traffic offenses, after the 2007 Chevrolet he was operating was stopped for erratic driving. The incident occurred on March 18 at 12:42 a.m., in the 9000 block of Gap Newport Pike, in New Garden Township. Police on routine patrol observed the vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed on Gap Newport Pike. As police followed the vehicle, the registration plate was being lit by non-regulation lights and the vehicle failed to maintain its lane of travel.

• Juan J. Hernandez Jr., 19, of Avondale was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, robbery, false imprisonment, terroristic threats, strangulation, resisting arrest, and harassment, following an incident on March 17, according to a police report. At approximately 12:33 p.m., police were dispatched to the 9100 block of Gap Newport Pike, in New Garden Township. Upon arrival, police found Hernandez standing in the doorway of the residence blocking the victim from leaving. A witness at the scene reported that Hernandez had been physically restraining the juvenile victim from leaving. The victim reported that Hernandez had forced her to unlock her cell phone so that he could go through it. He reportedly withheld it from her for over two hours and would not allow her to call police. He then reportedly threw the victim to the ground and choked her until she could no longer breathe. Police said they saw evidence corroborating the victim’s account. When police attempted to take Hernandez into custody, he struggled and resisted their efforts to handcuff him. He was eventually taken into custody. He was processed and was held for arraignment, after which he was initially committed to the Chester County Prison, in lieu of posting bail.

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