Elizabeth Hickman Anderson, a retired psychiatric hospital rehabilitation director and Morgan State University benefactor, died May 24 of heart failure at her Cross Keys home. She was 88.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Elizabeth Hickman Williams earned her bachelor's degree from Hunter College in 1942.
For many years until retiring and moving to Baltimore in the early 1970s, Mrs. Anderson had been the director of rehabilitation at Creedmore Psychiatric Center in Queens, N.Y. She had also been president of the National Rehabilitation Association in Washington.
In 1948, she married William A. Anderson, an electronics executive, who died in 1997.
While living in New York City, Mrs. Anderson and her husband's philanthropic interests included the New York City Mission Society, the Dance Theatre of Harlem and other artistic foundations.