She died Thursday in Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest. Born in Danville, Ill., she moved to Lake Bluff in 1939. She was a 1941 graduate of Lake Forest High School; a 1945 graduate of Lake Forest College; a member of Gamma Phi Beta National Social Sorority and Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. She was twice-past president of the Lake County Alumnae Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta and served as vice president of the Libertyville Consolidated Parents-Teachers Association; was a den mother for Cub Scout Troop 71 for six years; served as a Brownie Scout leader for the Lakeview Girl Scouts in Libertyville; was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville; the Deborah Circle and a charter member of the Ansel Brainerd Cook DAR Chapter.
Survivors include her husband, David; sons, David III and Bradley; daughter, Shelia Joyce; sisters, Ellen Kuerst and Josephine Stiles; and eight grandchildren.
A private graveside service and interment will be at IO a.m. today in the Northshore Garden of Memories Cemetery, North Chicago.
Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville.
Published in the Arlington Heights Daily Herald on Dec 7, 1985.
She died Thursday in Lake Forest Hospital, Lake Forest. Born in Danville, Ill., she moved to Lake Bluff in 1939. She was a 1941 graduate of Lake Forest High School; a 1945 graduate of Lake Forest College; a member of Gamma Phi Beta National Social Sorority and Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities. She was twice-past president of the Lake County Alumnae Chapter of Gamma Phi Beta and served as vice president of the Libertyville Consolidated Parents-Teachers Association; was a den mother for Cub Scout Troop 71 for six years; served as a Brownie Scout leader for the Lakeview Girl Scouts in Libertyville; was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville; the Deborah Circle and a charter member of the Ansel Brainerd Cook DAR Chapter.
Survivors include her husband, David; sons, David III and Bradley; daughter, Shelia Joyce; sisters, Ellen Kuerst and Josephine Stiles; and eight grandchildren.
A private graveside service and interment will be at IO a.m. today in the Northshore Garden of Memories Cemetery, North Chicago.
Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Libertyville.
Published in the Arlington Heights Daily Herald on Dec 7, 1985.