Barbara B. Howe, 70 Retired secretary
Barbara Burleigh Howe of Weston and Dennis, a retired Wellesley College secretary, mother of five and lifelong lover of literature, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from lymphoma. She was 70.
Born in Augusta, Maine, a great-granddaughter of Maine governor and US Sen. Edwin C. Burleigh, Mrs. Howe graduated from the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence and Smith College.
From 1946 to 1952, Mrs. Howe worked for the Boston Herald-Traveler as secretary to the Sunday editor, film critic and editor of the Sunday Good Sport Page.
Leaving the newspaper to rear five children, Mrs. Howe returned to work at Wellesley College in 1973, becoming chief secretary for the biology department.
Abstracted from The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 13, 1995 |
Barbara Burleigh Howe of Weston and Dennis, a retired Wellesley College secretary, mother of five and lifelong lover of literature, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from lymphoma. She was 70.
Born in Augusta, Maine, a great-granddaughter of Maine governor and US Sen. Edwin C. Burleigh, Mrs. Howe graduated from the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence and Smith College.
From 1946 to 1952, Mrs. Howe worked for the Boston Herald-Traveler as secretary to the Sunday editor, film critic and editor of the Sunday Good Sport Page.
Leaving the newspaper to rear five children, Mrs. Howe returned to work at Wellesley College in 1973, becoming chief secretary for the biology department.
Abstracted from The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 13, 1995 |
Barbara B. Howe, 70 Retired secretary
Barbara Burleigh Howe of Weston and Dennis, a retired Wellesley College secretary, mother of five and lifelong lover of literature, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from lymphoma. She was 70.
Born in Augusta, Maine, a great-granddaughter of Maine governor and US Sen. Edwin C. Burleigh, Mrs. Howe graduated from the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence and Smith College.
From 1946 to 1952, Mrs. Howe worked for the Boston Herald-Traveler as secretary to the Sunday editor, film critic and editor of the Sunday Good Sport Page.
Leaving the newspaper to rear five children, Mrs. Howe returned to work at Wellesley College in 1973, becoming chief secretary for the biology department.
Abstracted from The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 13, 1995 |
Barbara Burleigh Howe of Weston and Dennis, a retired Wellesley College secretary, mother of five and lifelong lover of literature, died yesterday at Massachusetts General Hospital of complications from lymphoma. She was 70.
Born in Augusta, Maine, a great-granddaughter of Maine governor and US Sen. Edwin C. Burleigh, Mrs. Howe graduated from the Mary C. Wheeler School in Providence and Smith College.
From 1946 to 1952, Mrs. Howe worked for the Boston Herald-Traveler as secretary to the Sunday editor, film critic and editor of the Sunday Good Sport Page.
Leaving the newspaper to rear five children, Mrs. Howe returned to work at Wellesley College in 1973, becoming chief secretary for the biology department.
Abstracted from The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) November 13, 1995 |
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