Susie Ione Brown Waxwood

Susie Ione Brown Waxwood (September 12, 1902 – January 30, 2006) was an American philanthropist and clubwoman, based in Princeton, New Jersey.

[4] After moving to New Jersey in 1935, Waxwood was involved with the Red Cross during World War II, and worked to integrate the organization's blood bank in the 1940s.

She was active in the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,[11] and a charter member of the Central New Jersey chapter of The Links.

[19] In 2003, when she was 100 years old, she visited a kindergarten class in Tryon, North Carolina, to help them mark the 100th day of school.

She moved to Tryon, North Carolina in 2002[22] to live near her granddaughter,[23] and died in Plainsboro, New Jersey in 2006, aged 103 years.

[26] The Waxwoods were honored as "Unsung Heroes" at Princeton's Community House in 2007,[27] and featured in a coloring book published for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2021.