Patricia Chancellor Pell

Former Bainbridge Island resident Patricia Chancellor Pell, age 68, of Princeton, N.J., died Dec. 1 at the University Medical Center at Princeton after a three-year battle with cancer.

She was born in Wilmington, Del., and graduated from Wilmington Friends School. She attended Vassar College with the Class of 1956. She volunteered at Princeton Studio of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, and then served as assistant studio director for 22 years.

She lived on Bainbridge Island from 1960-64, when she moved to New Jersey.

Following her retirement, she became deeply involved practicing Pilates and Yoga. An avid and eclectic reader, she was taking a course in Islam at the Evergreen Forum at the time of her death.

She was a member of Trinity Church, Princeton, and its Social Justice Committee. She also belonged to the Fort Ticonderoga Association of Ticonderoga N.Y.

She is survived by her husband, Stuyvesant B. Pell; daughters and sons-in-law, Alison C. Pell and J. Michael Helms of Snohomish Wash., and Sarah B. Pell-Stires and Wayne Stires of Ewing Township, N.J.; grandsons, James, Samuel, and Grayson Helms of Snohomish; a sister, Nancy Lamson-Scribner of Florida, and a brother, Ira F. Doom of Alabama.

A memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. Dec. 13 at Trinity Church, Princeton. A private interment was in Old St. Anne’s Church Cemetery, Middletown, Del.

Arrangements are under the direction of Kimble Funeral Home, Princeton, N.J.

Memorial contributions can be made to the New Jersey Unit of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, 69 Mapleton Road, Princeton NJ 08540; Fort Ticonderoga Association Inc., Box 390, Ticonderoga NY 12883, or Alcoholics Anonymous.