PARENTS
ARTHUR W MACHEN (b-1877 MD)
HELEN CHASE WOODS MACHEN (b-1896 MD)
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - July 9, 2008
Deceased Name: ELIZABETH PALMER AGE 82 : EDUCATOR AND OUTDOORSWOMAN LOVED HIKING AND CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.
Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Palmer, a retired educator whose love of walking took her from a department store escalator to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, died Saturday of heart failure at Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. She was 82.
Elizabeth Machen was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton.
She was a graduate of the old Greenwood School in Ruxton and was a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in French in 1947.
In 1948, she married C. Harvey Palmer Jr., who later became a professor of electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
From 1948 until 1958, Mrs. Palmer was a private tutor and substitute teacher in English at local private schools.
In 1958, after earning a master's degree in English from Hopkins, she became an instructor in remedial English at what is now Towson University. She retired in 1988.
"
ARTHUR W MACHEN (b-1877 MD)
HELEN CHASE WOODS MACHEN (b-1896 MD)
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - July 9, 2008
Deceased Name: ELIZABETH PALMER AGE 82 : EDUCATOR AND OUTDOORSWOMAN LOVED HIKING AND CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.
Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Palmer, a retired educator whose love of walking took her from a department store escalator to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, died Saturday of heart failure at Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. She was 82.
Elizabeth Machen was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton.
She was a graduate of the old Greenwood School in Ruxton and was a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in French in 1947.
In 1948, she married C. Harvey Palmer Jr., who later became a professor of electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
From 1948 until 1958, Mrs. Palmer was a private tutor and substitute teacher in English at local private schools.
In 1958, after earning a master's degree in English from Hopkins, she became an instructor in remedial English at what is now Towson University. She retired in 1988.
"
PARENTS
ARTHUR W MACHEN (b-1877 MD)
HELEN CHASE WOODS MACHEN (b-1896 MD)
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - July 9, 2008
Deceased Name: ELIZABETH PALMER AGE 82 : EDUCATOR AND OUTDOORSWOMAN LOVED HIKING AND CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.
Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Palmer, a retired educator whose love of walking took her from a department store escalator to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, died Saturday of heart failure at Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. She was 82.
Elizabeth Machen was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton.
She was a graduate of the old Greenwood School in Ruxton and was a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in French in 1947.
In 1948, she married C. Harvey Palmer Jr., who later became a professor of electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
From 1948 until 1958, Mrs. Palmer was a private tutor and substitute teacher in English at local private schools.
In 1958, after earning a master's degree in English from Hopkins, she became an instructor in remedial English at what is now Towson University. She retired in 1988.
"
ARTHUR W MACHEN (b-1877 MD)
HELEN CHASE WOODS MACHEN (b-1896 MD)
Sun, The (Baltimore, MD) - July 9, 2008
Deceased Name: ELIZABETH PALMER AGE 82 : EDUCATOR AND OUTDOORSWOMAN LOVED HIKING AND CLIMBING MOUNTAINS.
Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Palmer, a retired educator whose love of walking took her from a department store escalator to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, died Saturday of heart failure at Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville. She was 82.
Elizabeth Machen was born in Baltimore and raised in Ruxton.
She was a graduate of the old Greenwood School in Ruxton and was a magna cum laude graduate of Mount Holyoke College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in French in 1947.
In 1948, she married C. Harvey Palmer Jr., who later became a professor of electrical engineering at the Johns Hopkins University.
From 1948 until 1958, Mrs. Palmer was a private tutor and substitute teacher in English at local private schools.
In 1958, after earning a master's degree in English from Hopkins, she became an instructor in remedial English at what is now Towson University. She retired in 1988.
"
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