Anna Rae & Stuart Lawson Rudacille
Source:
Jeff White
Information about this photo:
This photo was taken in the early 1930s at Anna Rae and Stuart’s grandparent’s farm in Glen Echo.
Anna Rae Rudacille (1927-2014)
Anna Rae was born at Gooney Lodge, not far from the family farm. She would go on to earn higher degrees in education and dedicated her life to teaching children until she returned to Glen Echo in 1990 to provide care for her parents through the end of their lives.
She enjoyed her responsibility as steward of her ancestral farm and home and was especially proud, witnessing and helping in the transformation of her cattle farm into a wine producing operation (Glen Manor Vinyards) run by her son, Jeff White, and his wife Kelly.
Anna Rae also enjoyed interviewing and writing sketches of Browntown Community residents which were published in the Browntown Community Association Newsletter and are now housed at the Warren County Heritage Society in Front Royal.
Stuart Lawson Rudacille (1927-2008) was Anna Rae’s brother.
He was first elected to the Warren County Board of Supervisors in 1983 and served five consecutive four-year termsHis oldest daughter, Susan Bell, described her father as a Warren County man. “He really cared about the whole county. He loved it so much, he never wanted to leave it even on vacation. He was a people person. I always called him the great American defender of the underdog and he would laugh….His passion was Warren County and his farm (Glenway Farm).”
When he retired as a school bus driver Stuart held the state record for being on the same bus run for 39 1⁄2 years. He also earned a spot in Who’s Who of Virginia in the 1970s for his work as a manager and coach of Front Royal basketball teams.