6975760505.jpg &&& POSSIBLY THE main characteristic that Eleanor Mulhern Stofko passed on to her many descendants was an unquenchable zest for life. "She truly enjoyed each day and conveyed her positive outlook and personal strength to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren," said her daughter Margaret Kruza. Eleanor Stofko, who also demonstrated to her progeny that community service is a vital and satisfying pursuit, died Jan. 6 of complications of pneumonia. She was 91 and lived in Coral Springs, Fla., but had lived for many years in Wynnewood. She spent much of the last 20 years of her life working with the homeless and the infirm in Fort Lauderdale, serving in soup kitchens and doing whatever else was needed. A devout Catholic, she also served as a eucharistic minister for her parish, St. Andrews, in Coral Springs. Eleanor Margaret Mulhern was raised in Llanerch, and when she married Paul Leo Stofko, University of Pennsylvania football star, coach and Naval officer, in 1942, the wedding was news in all the local society pages. Her husband, a salesman for a food-service company, was captain of Penn's football team in 1935. He later was an assistant football coach under George Munger, at Penn, and Lew Elverson, at Swarthmore College. He was a Naval lieutenant commander serving aboard the light cruiser USS San Juan in a number of major battles in the South Pacific in World War II. He died in 1979. Eleanor was born in Philadelphia to Howard Mulhern, a vice president of the Albert M. Greenfield real-estate company, and the former Margaret Johnson. She graduated from the former Notre Dame Academy, at Rittenhouse Square. Eleanor was renowned for her great beauty. "We used to wonder who she looked like," her daughter said. "Was it Hedy Lamarr or Vivien Leigh?" Eleanor was an excellent artist, taught by the nuns at Notre Dame. Her pen and ink drawings are cherished by the family. She was also an excellent singer. "Wherever there was a piano, she would go to town," her daughter said. "She had a great love of life, a zest for life," Margaret Kruza said. "She conveyed to all of us that the world is a pretty good place. She was very happy and wanted us to be happy." Eleanor loved movies and musicals. A family friend was Larry Shubert, of the Shubert show-business family, and he got them tickets to Broadway shows. They were also world travelers. Besides her daughter, she is survived by two other daughters, Katherine Crissy and Mary Bygott; nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Services: 11 a.m. Friday at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. March 21 at St. Katherine of Siena Church, in Wayne. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Our Father's House Soup Kitchen, 2380 Martin Luther King Blvd., P.O. Box 668571, Pompano Beach, FL 23066.