Grant - Burgess - Brownell Family

Helen Francis Grant

Helen Francis Grant 18 months

Helen Grant was born 14 November 1912 and married

Vernon Earl Biddle Jr. they had a daughter, Deborah Grant Biddle, NYC, April 27th,1938.

Lena Blanche Brownell was born Dec. 22nd 1875

Oct.5th 1907 She married William Thomas Grant in Essex Jct, VT.

Lena and William had two daughters : Marian Grant and Helen Grant.

W.T. and Lena divorce in 1920.

Lena moves alone to 740 Park Avenue, later marries

Dr.Joshua Rosett who dies on a trip to Mexico in 1940, and then lives out the

rest of her life between Woodstock, NY. and 740 until her death in 1969

Deborah Grant Biddle (Burgess, Relva, Lobmeyer)

Debbie 1yr and Dobie (1939)

Debbie (age 2) and Dobie (1940)

Antony Carsetta

Barbara, Debbie, Lin Black and Nancy

Debbie with Bill

L-R: Nancy (Balantyne), Mr and Mis Nesbitt (Mike the dog), Bobbie Ann.

Summer of 1954 Trip

16th Birthday in NY with Richard (Dick) Papp

Debbie and Dian Hoskins

April 27, 1938 - May 11, 2011 (78)

273 North Street, Bedminster.

Bristol, England

This is the first home for Debbie and John above the sweet shop they owned in Bristol.

West Runton, Norfolk England

Debbie and Ladric in Norfolk

Deborah G. Lobmeyer, 73, of Sycamore, died Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at Pine Acres Rehab & Living Center in DeKalb. She was born April 27, 1938, in New York, N.Y., the daughter of Earl Vernon and Helen Frances (Grant) Biddle Jr.

W.T Grant

W.T.Grant's Grandmother

Helen, Blanche, Marion and William

With Beth

For many decades W.T. Grant Co. was one of the most successful retail chains in the United States. William T. Grant’s success enabled him to build a lovely estate on the north side of Boston Post Road in Pelham Manor where Our Lady of the Perpetual Help stands today. Today's Historic Pelham Blog posting provides information about W. T. Grant's estate and how it became the site of the church that stands there now.

By about 1918, W.T. Grant and his wife, Lena Blanche Brownell Grant (whom he married in 1907 when W.T was 31), were residents of Pelham Manor where they lived for many years. The couple, who adopted two children, built a lovely estate on the north side of Boston Post Road.

BIRTH 27 Jun 1876
Stevensville, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 6 Aug 1972 (aged 96)

Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA

Lieutenant Earl Vernon Biddle Jr

Helen and Earl

Jan 13, 1939
Lieutenant Earl Vernon Biddle Jr., prominent horseman, who rode frequently in Madison Square Garden shows as a member of the Sixty-first Cavalry team, was killed yesterday morning when an automobile he was driving crashed into a steel pillar on a traffic island at the Long Island City approach to the Queensboro Bridge