The daughter of Edmund B. and Rhoda J. (Walker) Edwards. Her father, an 1898 Harvard graduate, married her mother in 1902. He was working as a Naval Architect in 1904 and died at Berkeley, CA in 1905.
In 1922, her mother Rhoda Edwards completed a passport application to travel throughout Europe with her daughters Rhodita and Lydia. The application indicated, too, that the family had lived in Portsmouth England from 1910 to 1914; Brussels from 1920 to 1921; and in Austria from 1922.
Rhodita was a 1927 graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge. On January 1, 1928 she married Garret G. Ackerson, a 1927 Harvard graduate, at Manhattan, NY. Her husband was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1928, and Rhodita accompanied him to consular posts in Peru, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Cape Town, South Africa, and Budapest, Hungary.
While in Budapest, Rhodita used the diplomatic immunity of the family's residence to hide refugees fleeing Poland when World War II broke out in September 1939.
Rhodita and Garret were parents to four children, Garret, Jr., born Dec 29, 1929 in Cape Town, South Africa; Edmund, born June 10, 1933; Rhoda Lydia Anne, born July 27, 1937 in Hungary; and Janet Edith, who died six hours after her birth.
Her husband Garret, who remarried after her death, died at Lexington, MA in 1992.
In 1922, her mother Rhoda Edwards completed a passport application to travel throughout Europe with her daughters Rhodita and Lydia. The application indicated, too, that the family had lived in Portsmouth England from 1910 to 1914; Brussels from 1920 to 1921; and in Austria from 1922.
Rhodita was a 1927 graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge. On January 1, 1928 she married Garret G. Ackerson, a 1927 Harvard graduate, at Manhattan, NY. Her husband was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1928, and Rhodita accompanied him to consular posts in Peru, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Cape Town, South Africa, and Budapest, Hungary.
While in Budapest, Rhodita used the diplomatic immunity of the family's residence to hide refugees fleeing Poland when World War II broke out in September 1939.
Rhodita and Garret were parents to four children, Garret, Jr., born Dec 29, 1929 in Cape Town, South Africa; Edmund, born June 10, 1933; Rhoda Lydia Anne, born July 27, 1937 in Hungary; and Janet Edith, who died six hours after her birth.
Her husband Garret, who remarried after her death, died at Lexington, MA in 1992.
The daughter of Edmund B. and Rhoda J. (Walker) Edwards. Her father, an 1898 Harvard graduate, married her mother in 1902. He was working as a Naval Architect in 1904 and died at Berkeley, CA in 1905.
In 1922, her mother Rhoda Edwards completed a passport application to travel throughout Europe with her daughters Rhodita and Lydia. The application indicated, too, that the family had lived in Portsmouth England from 1910 to 1914; Brussels from 1920 to 1921; and in Austria from 1922.
Rhodita was a 1927 graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge. On January 1, 1928 she married Garret G. Ackerson, a 1927 Harvard graduate, at Manhattan, NY. Her husband was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1928, and Rhodita accompanied him to consular posts in Peru, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Cape Town, South Africa, and Budapest, Hungary.
While in Budapest, Rhodita used the diplomatic immunity of the family's residence to hide refugees fleeing Poland when World War II broke out in September 1939.
Rhodita and Garret were parents to four children, Garret, Jr., born Dec 29, 1929 in Cape Town, South Africa; Edmund, born June 10, 1933; Rhoda Lydia Anne, born July 27, 1937 in Hungary; and Janet Edith, who died six hours after her birth.
Her husband Garret, who remarried after her death, died at Lexington, MA in 1992.
In 1922, her mother Rhoda Edwards completed a passport application to travel throughout Europe with her daughters Rhodita and Lydia. The application indicated, too, that the family had lived in Portsmouth England from 1910 to 1914; Brussels from 1920 to 1921; and in Austria from 1922.
Rhodita was a 1927 graduate of Radcliffe College in Cambridge. On January 1, 1928 she married Garret G. Ackerson, a 1927 Harvard graduate, at Manhattan, NY. Her husband was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service from 1928, and Rhodita accompanied him to consular posts in Peru, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Cape Town, South Africa, and Budapest, Hungary.
While in Budapest, Rhodita used the diplomatic immunity of the family's residence to hide refugees fleeing Poland when World War II broke out in September 1939.
Rhodita and Garret were parents to four children, Garret, Jr., born Dec 29, 1929 in Cape Town, South Africa; Edmund, born June 10, 1933; Rhoda Lydia Anne, born July 27, 1937 in Hungary; and Janet Edith, who died six hours after her birth.
Her husband Garret, who remarried after her death, died at Lexington, MA in 1992.
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