Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland, loved charity, activity to age 95
BYLINE: KAYE SPECTOR, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland was an adventuresome woman with an appetite for living that lasted all her life.
She scuba-dived until she was in her 70s. She went whitewater rafting and rode in a hot-air balloon in her 80s. At age 94, she wrote a self-published autobiography. And in her last year of life, at age 95, she volunteered at a nursery for abused children.
Mrs. Ireland, who in her book described her life as a "marvelous adventure," died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Mrs. Ireland came to Cleveland in the late 1960s and moved among local and national business, political and civic leaders of her day. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tallulah Bankhead, Drew Pearson and Agnes DeMille were among the famous people she knew.
Her friends and family called Mrs. Ireland "Ligi," a nickname given to her by her second husband, Robert Livingston "Liv" Ireland, a first cousin she married in 1967. The nickname was formed by her initials.
Mrs. Ireland's ancestors included William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and James Duane, New York City's first mayor.
She was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, lived in Rome as a young girl and returned to the United States during World War I. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut, attended the Sorbonne in Paris after the war and graduated from Barnard College. She also attended the Bank Street College of Education in New York.
Mrs. Ireland moved to New York to work at the Planned Parenthood Federation with Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control and women's rights. Those became causes for which Mrs. Ireland worked all her life.
Mrs. Ireland served on the boards of public television station WVIZ Channel 25, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the New York Kindergarten Association and the Providence House Crisis Nursery.
She was a founding member of Access to the Arts, a charitable organization established to provide arts opportunities for the frail elderly.
Her first husband, Charles Grimes, was a New York lawyer who in the 1930s worked with special prosecutor - and future GOP presidential nominee - Thomas Dewey to dismantle the Tammany Hall political machine. The couple had three children. Mr. Grimes died in 1957.
Mr. Ireland was chairman of the executive committee of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., formerly Hanna Coal Co. Mr. Ireland, for whom University Hospital's Ireland Cancer Center is named, died in 1981.
Mrs. Ireland published articles in Town and Country magazine and was co-author of a book on child development, "Children in the Family, a Psychological Guide for Parents," in 1940, six years before her friend, Benjamin Spock, published his famous book. Her children were among Spock's first pediatric patients.
She is survived by her daughters, Arline Grimes Heimert of Winchester, Mass., and Lucy Lee Grimes Evans of New Canaan, Conn.; son, Charles Grimes of Chadd's Ford, Pa.; and six grandchildren.
BYLINE: KAYE SPECTOR, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland was an adventuresome woman with an appetite for living that lasted all her life.
She scuba-dived until she was in her 70s. She went whitewater rafting and rode in a hot-air balloon in her 80s. At age 94, she wrote a self-published autobiography. And in her last year of life, at age 95, she volunteered at a nursery for abused children.
Mrs. Ireland, who in her book described her life as a "marvelous adventure," died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Mrs. Ireland came to Cleveland in the late 1960s and moved among local and national business, political and civic leaders of her day. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tallulah Bankhead, Drew Pearson and Agnes DeMille were among the famous people she knew.
Her friends and family called Mrs. Ireland "Ligi," a nickname given to her by her second husband, Robert Livingston "Liv" Ireland, a first cousin she married in 1967. The nickname was formed by her initials.
Mrs. Ireland's ancestors included William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and James Duane, New York City's first mayor.
She was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, lived in Rome as a young girl and returned to the United States during World War I. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut, attended the Sorbonne in Paris after the war and graduated from Barnard College. She also attended the Bank Street College of Education in New York.
Mrs. Ireland moved to New York to work at the Planned Parenthood Federation with Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control and women's rights. Those became causes for which Mrs. Ireland worked all her life.
Mrs. Ireland served on the boards of public television station WVIZ Channel 25, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the New York Kindergarten Association and the Providence House Crisis Nursery.
She was a founding member of Access to the Arts, a charitable organization established to provide arts opportunities for the frail elderly.
Her first husband, Charles Grimes, was a New York lawyer who in the 1930s worked with special prosecutor - and future GOP presidential nominee - Thomas Dewey to dismantle the Tammany Hall political machine. The couple had three children. Mr. Grimes died in 1957.
Mr. Ireland was chairman of the executive committee of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., formerly Hanna Coal Co. Mr. Ireland, for whom University Hospital's Ireland Cancer Center is named, died in 1981.
Mrs. Ireland published articles in Town and Country magazine and was co-author of a book on child development, "Children in the Family, a Psychological Guide for Parents," in 1940, six years before her friend, Benjamin Spock, published his famous book. Her children were among Spock's first pediatric patients.
She is survived by her daughters, Arline Grimes Heimert of Winchester, Mass., and Lucy Lee Grimes Evans of New Canaan, Conn.; son, Charles Grimes of Chadd's Ford, Pa.; and six grandchildren.
Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland, loved charity, activity to age 95
BYLINE: KAYE SPECTOR, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland was an adventuresome woman with an appetite for living that lasted all her life.
She scuba-dived until she was in her 70s. She went whitewater rafting and rode in a hot-air balloon in her 80s. At age 94, she wrote a self-published autobiography. And in her last year of life, at age 95, she volunteered at a nursery for abused children.
Mrs. Ireland, who in her book described her life as a "marvelous adventure," died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Mrs. Ireland came to Cleveland in the late 1960s and moved among local and national business, political and civic leaders of her day. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tallulah Bankhead, Drew Pearson and Agnes DeMille were among the famous people she knew.
Her friends and family called Mrs. Ireland "Ligi," a nickname given to her by her second husband, Robert Livingston "Liv" Ireland, a first cousin she married in 1967. The nickname was formed by her initials.
Mrs. Ireland's ancestors included William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and James Duane, New York City's first mayor.
She was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, lived in Rome as a young girl and returned to the United States during World War I. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut, attended the Sorbonne in Paris after the war and graduated from Barnard College. She also attended the Bank Street College of Education in New York.
Mrs. Ireland moved to New York to work at the Planned Parenthood Federation with Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control and women's rights. Those became causes for which Mrs. Ireland worked all her life.
Mrs. Ireland served on the boards of public television station WVIZ Channel 25, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the New York Kindergarten Association and the Providence House Crisis Nursery.
She was a founding member of Access to the Arts, a charitable organization established to provide arts opportunities for the frail elderly.
Her first husband, Charles Grimes, was a New York lawyer who in the 1930s worked with special prosecutor - and future GOP presidential nominee - Thomas Dewey to dismantle the Tammany Hall political machine. The couple had three children. Mr. Grimes died in 1957.
Mr. Ireland was chairman of the executive committee of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., formerly Hanna Coal Co. Mr. Ireland, for whom University Hospital's Ireland Cancer Center is named, died in 1981.
Mrs. Ireland published articles in Town and Country magazine and was co-author of a book on child development, "Children in the Family, a Psychological Guide for Parents," in 1940, six years before her friend, Benjamin Spock, published his famous book. Her children were among Spock's first pediatric patients.
She is survived by her daughters, Arline Grimes Heimert of Winchester, Mass., and Lucy Lee Grimes Evans of New Canaan, Conn.; son, Charles Grimes of Chadd's Ford, Pa.; and six grandchildren.
BYLINE: KAYE SPECTOR, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER
Louise Ireland Grimes Ireland was an adventuresome woman with an appetite for living that lasted all her life.
She scuba-dived until she was in her 70s. She went whitewater rafting and rode in a hot-air balloon in her 80s. At age 94, she wrote a self-published autobiography. And in her last year of life, at age 95, she volunteered at a nursery for abused children.
Mrs. Ireland, who in her book described her life as a "marvelous adventure," died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Mrs. Ireland came to Cleveland in the late 1960s and moved among local and national business, political and civic leaders of her day. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, the Kennedys, Gloria Vanderbilt, Tallulah Bankhead, Drew Pearson and Agnes DeMille were among the famous people she knew.
Her friends and family called Mrs. Ireland "Ligi," a nickname given to her by her second husband, Robert Livingston "Liv" Ireland, a first cousin she married in 1967. The nickname was formed by her initials.
Mrs. Ireland's ancestors included William Floyd, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and James Duane, New York City's first mayor.
She was born in Bar Harbor, Maine, lived in Rome as a young girl and returned to the United States during World War I. She graduated from the Ethel Walker School in Connecticut, attended the Sorbonne in Paris after the war and graduated from Barnard College. She also attended the Bank Street College of Education in New York.
Mrs. Ireland moved to New York to work at the Planned Parenthood Federation with Margaret Sanger, the pioneer of birth control and women's rights. Those became causes for which Mrs. Ireland worked all her life.
Mrs. Ireland served on the boards of public television station WVIZ Channel 25, the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the New York Kindergarten Association and the Providence House Crisis Nursery.
She was a founding member of Access to the Arts, a charitable organization established to provide arts opportunities for the frail elderly.
Her first husband, Charles Grimes, was a New York lawyer who in the 1930s worked with special prosecutor - and future GOP presidential nominee - Thomas Dewey to dismantle the Tammany Hall political machine. The couple had three children. Mr. Grimes died in 1957.
Mr. Ireland was chairman of the executive committee of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal Co., formerly Hanna Coal Co. Mr. Ireland, for whom University Hospital's Ireland Cancer Center is named, died in 1981.
Mrs. Ireland published articles in Town and Country magazine and was co-author of a book on child development, "Children in the Family, a Psychological Guide for Parents," in 1940, six years before her friend, Benjamin Spock, published his famous book. Her children were among Spock's first pediatric patients.
She is survived by her daughters, Arline Grimes Heimert of Winchester, Mass., and Lucy Lee Grimes Evans of New Canaan, Conn.; son, Charles Grimes of Chadd's Ford, Pa.; and six grandchildren.
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