Daily News | Eva Nicholson Franklin, lifelong learner, compassionate caregiver, and family matriarch, has died at 96
Eva Nicholson Franklin, 96, of Philadelphia, lifelong learner, compassionate caregiver, and matriarch of families in Philadelphia; Jersey City, N.J.; and Naples, Fla., died Friday, Aug. 19, of congestive heart failure at Lankenau Medical Center.
“She loved caring for other people,” said granddaughter Kweli Archie. “Her energy came from making people happy.” Soon thereafter, she met Stanley B. Franklin Sr., who lived across the street. They married in 1945 and had daughters Shirley and Sharon, and son Stanley Jr. They divorced later, and he died earlier.
In Florida, she did yoga and water aerobics with her daughter, attended spring training baseball games, and rode in the annual Martin Luther King parade.
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