Daily News | Laura Mitchell Keene, author, retired school teacher, descendant of abolitionist John Pierre Burr, dies at 98
“My mom loved my father deeply,” said Paul-Jacques Keene, Mrs. Keene’s son. “They were best friends. They held hands.”
Mrs. Keene was a descendant of Philadelphia abolitionist John Pierre Burr, an organizer of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society who helped Black people flee slavery by hiding them in the cellar of hisLaura Ann Mitchell Keene was born June 24, 1923, in West Philadelphia. She was one of five children of Theodore Judson Mitchell and Louella Lydia Burr and grew up in Philadelphia and Wildwood, N.J. Her son said although she was the youngest in her family, she was the strongest.
When it appeared that her future husband, a navigator with the Tuskegee Airmen, was expected to be deployed to Europe as a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, Mrs. Keene left nursing school to marry him.The couple, who moved to Warrington, Bucks County, in 1957, had two children and were married for 65 years until Paul Keene’s death in 2009.
“We had very much a cultural life,” her son said. “We didn’t have a lot of money. Dad was a teacher and a struggling artist then. But we never lacked for enrichment.”The book’s editor, Linda C. Wisniewski, described the author as “a very sweet person, but you couldn’t push her around.”
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