Memorial Service
for
George (Skip) Corson
Members and attenders of Plymouth Monthly Meeting send their sincere condolences to the family of Skip Corson.
Skip was a story teller who linked us to our past (both its history and wisdom), thereby helping us understand the challenges of today. His smile drew you into the story as he explained each of the protagonists in it. A bit of humor, a bit of the hard facts and always an optimism that one could apply the past to the current and future as we live into our stories.
Skip was a lifelong vocal supporter of Friends Education. It was important to him that Quaker schools continue to provide for the current generation what had been special to him. Never stuck in the past, he supported many of the current needs of today such as a fundraising drive to bring better technology to education but also supported the many unique ways our teachers find to be fully creative with their students. His diversity of interests outside of his professional life can only be listed by his many friends that interfaced with him in all those venues of his life. One could find him late at night still sitting in a public meeting supporting citizens that sought and finally prevailed in changing the use of the Abolition Hall land from commercial development to open space, art studio classes and historical interpretation. Skip lent l his discernment to the Philadelphia Travel and Witness granting group helping PYM Friends traveling in religious service. Between these two venues are so many others that his friends and colleagues are thankful to him for.
Skip gave a bit of himself to all of us. Each in our own way continue his tradition of linking past to present. Skip spirit will continue to inform and provide guidance to us as we create our future one with another.
Obituary
https://www.montgomerybar.org/?pg=MemorialCorner&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=108129
George ("Skip") Corson, Jr., 88, of Blue Bell, PA died on May 21, 2024 at Meadowood's Holly House of complications from leukemia. Born in Plymouth Meeting, PA, he was the only son of the late Judge George C. Corson, Sr. and Jane Webb Corson. He graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1952, from Amherst College in 1956, with a major in German and a minor in drama, and from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1959. He married Elizabeth ("Betsy") Strayer in 1962 (she passed away in 2006), and is survived by their four children, Tacy, Ben, Julia and Nick, and by his five grandchildren Mikko, Clare, Will, Lily and Calder and his later life partner, Penny Brodie and their dog, Bear.
A Memorial Service will be held at Plymouth Friends Meeting on Saturday, June 8 at 10:30 A.M.
Clare McIlvaine Mundy 215-482-8878
Meeting House Address:
2150 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting PA 19462
