Newtown Township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Tyler Gardens Planting Area
Historic Preservation Student Project (2014)
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., July 19, 2025
1. Tyler Gardens Planting Area Marker
Tyler Gardens Planting Area
In Memory of
Paula Decker Everitt
Bucks County Artist
Her work illuminates the plight
of those affected by
poverty, disease, and war.
Dedicated in 2018
by Jonathan A. Neuber, Class of 2005
Erected 2018 by Bucks County Community College and Foundation.
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, Music • Horticulture & Forestry.
Location. 40° 14.354′ N, 74° 58.114′ W. Marker is near Newtown, Pennsylvania, in Bucks County. It is in Newtown Township. It can be reached from Swamp Road. Marker and Planting Area are in the Tyler Gardens, on the Bucks County Community College campus. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 275 Swamp Road, Newtown PA 18940, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Southeast Pennsylvania and in Greater Philadelphia. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Welcome to Tyler Formal Gardens (a few steps from this marker); The Sculptures of Stella Elkins Tyler (a few steps from this marker); Summer House Garden Seat (within shouting distance of this marker); Tears For Freedom (about 300 feet away, measured
this page online
More about this marker. Newtown, PA - Paula Decker Everitt, age 61, passed away on April 2, 2016. She had devoted her life to family, travel, compassion, and art. After a years struggle with a brain tumor, she died peacefully at home, surrounded by her loving family.
Born on July 19, 1954 in Sussex, NJ, to Chester E. Decker, Sr. and Madeline (Johnson) Decker, Paula spent her childhood in Sussex. For her senior year of high school she became an exchange student in Lund, Sweden, before attending Colgate University to study religion and philosophy. Paula attained a Masters of Divinity degree from Andover Newtown Theological Seminary, was ordained in the United Church of Christ, and served as Associate Minister of the Hingham Congregational Church in Massachusetts.
After taking a professional break to focus on raising her 3 children, Paula subsequently
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., July 19, 2025
2. Tyler Gardens Planting Area and Marker
When the family moved to Cambridge, England, for 3 years, Paula poured her compassionate energies into her life-long love of art. After moving back to Berwyn, PA, she earned a 4-year certificate in Fine Arts at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Paula was a professional artist for the last 10 years, working in oil colors and multimedia drawing. Her most recent art used abstract figure drawing to depict vulnerable people living with disease, war and/or poverty. This body of work, characterized as raw and disturbing, won numerous awards in juried art exhibitions.
A private family graveside service was held on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at Clove Cemetery, Sussex, NJ. A Service of Celebration of Paulas life will be held at 2pm on April 16, 2016, at the Newtown Presbyterian Church, 25 North Chancellor Street, Newtown, PA 18940. The family requests that memorial donations may be made to the VAD Foundation, www.vadfoundation.org which provides desperately-needed education to children in South Sudan.
[Pinkel Funeral Home online obituary, 2016]
Also see . . . Paula Decker Everitt in Bucks County Artist Database . (Submitted on July 30, 2025, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.)
Credits. This page was last revised on July 30, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 30, 2025, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 85 times since then and 11 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on July 30, 2025, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
