Suzanne Krecker Dure died peacefully at Spring House Estates on Tuesday, April 28, 2026. Born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia PA on July 31, 1933, she was the second daughter of Frederick Stritzinger Krecker and Elizabeth (Betty) Geiger Krecker, who preceded her in death along with her sister Elizabeth (Betty) Krecker Miller.
She graduated from Springside School in 1951 and went on to attend Mary Washington College where she met and married University of Virginia student Leon Sebring Dure III. They lived briefly at his parents’ farm in Keswick Virginia before she returned with their newborn son Davis Oakford Dure to her mother in Chestnut Hill, with whom she lived for 46 years. She spent her last thirteen years at Spring House where she was loved by fellow residents and staff.
While raising her son she entered the workforce part time at The Chestnut Hill Local shortly after it was founded before going on to full-time secretarial employment in Center City and retiring in 1983. She returned to work part time for a few years as a bookkeeper at The Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential in Wyndmoor PA.
Following full retirement in the late eighties she entered more fully into the life of her church, Saint Paul’s in Chestnut Hill. In addition to working at the annual rummage sale she became active in outreach ministries and served on the Vestry, on a Rector search committee, on a breakfast team, as a Godly Play greeter, and helped organize the Dixon Library. She served on the board of Habitat for Humanity in Germantown, and as a volunteer guide at the Morris Arboretum. She loved walking in the Wissahickon and was a long-time member of the Trailbuds. At Spring House, she was active as Secretary of the local Questers chapter as well as serving as wing director and a Bazaar volunteer.
She is survived by her son and his wife the Reverend Lucy Ann Craig Dure, granddaughter Elizabeth (Eliza) Mary Dure, niece the Reverend Elizabeth (Betsy) Davis Miller, and nephew Geoffrey Cramp Miller through whom she is survived by a number of grand and great-grand nieces and nephews.
Gifts in her memory can be made to Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, and the Morris Arboretum.
Arrangements by McIlvaine East Falls.
