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Alexis DuPont Obituary
AGE: 87 • Wilmington, Del.
The passing of Alexis Irénée duPont occurred quietly on Good Friday, March 25, 2016, in Hockessin, Delaware. His death followed his birth nearly 88 years before at the home of his parents, E. Paul duPont and Jean Kane Foulke duPont, in Montchanin, Delaware. He was a resident of Port Orange, Florida and Block Island, Rhode Island.
Known as "Lex," he attended Wilmington Friends School in Delaware and graduated from The Choate School in Connecticut. He pursued his interest in all things mechanical at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and rounded out his aviation credentials at the Bakers School of Aeronautics in Tennessee.
The aviation, automotive, and motorcycle fields benefited from his passionate enthusiasm. His business activities included the sale of automotive parts, the collection and sale of motorcycles, the import and sale of automobiles and the founding of New Garden Flying Field and New Garden Aviation with the help of his wife Anne and family.
New Garden Flying Field and Aviation supported those interested in flying and the history of aviation. Lex particularly pursued restoring and preserving antique aircraft, including planes used before and during World War II. New Garden Flying Field is recognized for providing flight training and aviation services and supporting general aviation interests in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Lex was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, a member of the Quiet Birdmen, an aviation social club, a founding member of the Warbirds of America, a national organization, and a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association of America, among other organizations.
He is survived by his wife of over 60 years, Anne Smith duPont, his five beloved children, Alexis duPont, Jr. of California, Everitt duPont and Thomas duPont of Pennsylvania, Joanna Lewis of North Carolina, and Stephanie Hannigan of Montana along with his 12 grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions in honor of Alexis I. duPont to the Hagley Museum and Library of Wilmington, Delaware.
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Adam Fisher
April 25, 2020
Lex duPont was a great help to me in helping me to gather, write, and provide information in the writing of a book of The DuPont Manufacturing Company, Incorporated. Anne and Lex were always cordial to my visits. Lex offered to teach me to fly, but graduate schools always interferred. He is sorely missed.
Respectfully,
Adam Wm. Fisher, Ph.D.
Picture taken in April, 2014, just before the 1929 DuPont Boattail was sold to Lammott duPont.
Adam Fisher Ph D
May 2, 2016
Anne duPont
April 30, 2016
Anne... My thoughts are with you at this time of your grief. Having lost Alice 5 years ago I know your mind will turn daily to those many happy years you and Lex had together. I trust your children will help fill that void.
Fondly.... Charlie Hober
Carol Hipkins
April 19, 2016
Lex, Thank you for the New Garden Airport. What fun we always had out there! When I was going to school in Philadelphia I would now and then bring a friend home for the weekend and I would take her there and we would go flying! What a treat for my friend who had never been flying before. I grew up in Landenber on Newark Rd. so the airport wasn't far from my home and it was always a beautiful sight to see the bi planes sliently floating over our home. The air shows! Such fun! You were always such a warm and friendly person and I will remember you. Thank you for being you.
Carol Amberg Hipkins. Once from Landenberg, always from Landenberg.
Bill Betty
April 16, 2016
My condolences to Lex's family.
Although I only met Lex once at his parents home in the 1950's, (his motor cycles were impressive) we had something in common. Absent his mother, Jean Kane Foulke duPont, neither of us would have existed, as his mother courageously saved my father when he was a young boy. As my Dad told it, she, at her peril, saved him from the swift running mill race after he had carelessly fallen in and was in danger of drowning.
Bill Betty
Charlene McGrady
April 15, 2016
Lex and Ann were always so kind to me and my husband, Doug Fearn, who hangars his Piper at N-57. I'll always be grateful for their generosity in allowing us, our daughter and our dog to stay in their beautiful historic home on the New Garden Flying Field grounds while they were in Florida and we were waiting for our house to be built. May their memories of this one-of-a-kind man, husband and father bring comfort to his friends and family. Lex has "slipped the surly bonds of earth" and now his ceilings are unlimited.
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