Posted on Thu, Jul. 3, 2008
Carol Hauser Axelrod, 60, of Wynnewood, a third-grade teacher, died of multiple myeloma Tuesday at Lankenau Hospital.
For 20 years, Mrs. Axelrod taught third graders at Andrew Hamilton School in West Philadelphia. She had previously been a teacher at Pennypacker School in Mount Airy and was a substitute teacher. For many years, she was a summer counselor at Har Zion Camp in Penn Valley.
Though she was a single mother, she told her daughters to apply to Ivy League colleges. "If we got in, she said she would find a way to send us," her daughter Michelle Scolnick said. Her daughters attended Princeton and Cornell.
After her cancer diagnosis in 2003, Mrs. Axelrod tried several treatments, including two stem-cell transplants. She taught until 2005.
Mrs. Axelrod grew up in Mount Airy and graduated from Philadelphia High School for Girls. She earned a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in education from Temple University.
She loved dining out with friends, sudoku puzzles, cats, chocolate and her granddaughter's company, her daughter said.
Mrs. Axelrod is also survived by daughter Stephanie; her mother, Frances Hauser; a brother; and her former husband, Robert Axelrod.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. today at Goldsteins' Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks Memorial Chapel, 6410 N. Broad St., Philadelphia. Burial will be in Montefiore Cemetery, Rockledge.
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