Her birth year was originally listed as 1884 in this findagrave record, but multiple other sources show it as 1883.
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An artist, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She studied with Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and William Merritt Chase.
In 1923 she built a studio/home in the Los Angeles hills overlooking Griffith Park at 2672 Glendower Ave. where she lived the rest of her life.
She taught at the Otis Art Institute in the 20's and 30's and was active in a variety of artists' clubs and organizations.
At the time of her death, she was listed as being a high school teacher. She died from heat and smoke during a brush fire while trying to rescue her dog from her studio/home overlooking Griffith Park.
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1,500 Flee Fires Near Los Angeles; One Person Killed
LOS ANGELES (UP) -- Gales up to 100 miles an hour fanned brush and forest fires early today forcing 1,500 persons to flee their homes and causing at least one death.
The hurricane-force desert winds whipped across Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties Sunday night and early today. They destroyed property and snarled traffic before they subsided.
Mrs. Donna Schuster, 55, a high school art teacher, died of smoke and heat while attempting to rescue her dog from a 10-acre brush fire that damaged her home and four others in the Los Feliz hills.
Firemen finally battled the fire under control. They said it was started by a power line knocked down in the high winds.
Sheboygan Press, Dec. 28, 1953, Page 1.
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An artist, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She studied with Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and William Merritt Chase.
In 1923 she built a studio/home in the Los Angeles hills overlooking Griffith Park at 2672 Glendower Ave. where she lived the rest of her life.
She taught at the Otis Art Institute in the 20's and 30's and was active in a variety of artists' clubs and organizations.
At the time of her death, she was listed as being a high school teacher. She died from heat and smoke during a brush fire while trying to rescue her dog from her studio/home overlooking Griffith Park.
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1,500 Flee Fires Near Los Angeles; One Person Killed
LOS ANGELES (UP) -- Gales up to 100 miles an hour fanned brush and forest fires early today forcing 1,500 persons to flee their homes and causing at least one death.
The hurricane-force desert winds whipped across Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties Sunday night and early today. They destroyed property and snarled traffic before they subsided.
Mrs. Donna Schuster, 55, a high school art teacher, died of smoke and heat while attempting to rescue her dog from a 10-acre brush fire that damaged her home and four others in the Los Feliz hills.
Firemen finally battled the fire under control. They said it was started by a power line knocked down in the high winds.
Sheboygan Press, Dec. 28, 1953, Page 1.
Her birth year was originally listed as 1884 in this findagrave record, but multiple other sources show it as 1883.
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An artist, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She studied with Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and William Merritt Chase.
In 1923 she built a studio/home in the Los Angeles hills overlooking Griffith Park at 2672 Glendower Ave. where she lived the rest of her life.
She taught at the Otis Art Institute in the 20's and 30's and was active in a variety of artists' clubs and organizations.
At the time of her death, she was listed as being a high school teacher. She died from heat and smoke during a brush fire while trying to rescue her dog from her studio/home overlooking Griffith Park.
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1,500 Flee Fires Near Los Angeles; One Person Killed
LOS ANGELES (UP) -- Gales up to 100 miles an hour fanned brush and forest fires early today forcing 1,500 persons to flee their homes and causing at least one death.
The hurricane-force desert winds whipped across Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties Sunday night and early today. They destroyed property and snarled traffic before they subsided.
Mrs. Donna Schuster, 55, a high school art teacher, died of smoke and heat while attempting to rescue her dog from a 10-acre brush fire that damaged her home and four others in the Los Feliz hills.
Firemen finally battled the fire under control. They said it was started by a power line knocked down in the high winds.
Sheboygan Press, Dec. 28, 1953, Page 1.
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An artist, she studied at the Chicago Art Institute and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. She studied with Edmund C. Tarbell, Frank W. Benson, and William Merritt Chase.
In 1923 she built a studio/home in the Los Angeles hills overlooking Griffith Park at 2672 Glendower Ave. where she lived the rest of her life.
She taught at the Otis Art Institute in the 20's and 30's and was active in a variety of artists' clubs and organizations.
At the time of her death, she was listed as being a high school teacher. She died from heat and smoke during a brush fire while trying to rescue her dog from her studio/home overlooking Griffith Park.
-----
1,500 Flee Fires Near Los Angeles; One Person Killed
LOS ANGELES (UP) -- Gales up to 100 miles an hour fanned brush and forest fires early today forcing 1,500 persons to flee their homes and causing at least one death.
The hurricane-force desert winds whipped across Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties Sunday night and early today. They destroyed property and snarled traffic before they subsided.
Mrs. Donna Schuster, 55, a high school art teacher, died of smoke and heat while attempting to rescue her dog from a 10-acre brush fire that damaged her home and four others in the Los Feliz hills.
Firemen finally battled the fire under control. They said it was started by a power line knocked down in the high winds.
Sheboygan Press, Dec. 28, 1953, Page 1.
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