Mrs. Conger was born Jan. 31, 1874 in Alexandria and was a daughter of the late George William and Harriet Fawcett Ramsey. She grew up in another Ramsay house on Prince Street.
As a young woman, she taught Sunday school at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria and was a student at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where she graduated as a portrait and landscape painter. In 1900, she left Alexandria for the Shenandoah Valley to recover from an attack of malaria. She established an art school in Harrisonburg where the Presbyterian Church on Court Square now stands. In 1906, she was married to Dr. Clement E. Conger of Harrisonburg, who died in 1932. While in Harrisonburg, she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and was a leader in Red Cross activities during World War I.
She returned to Alexandria in 1944. Surviving are two sons, Clement E. Conger, Jr. of Alexandria, curator of the White House and State Department diplomatic reception rooms, and Dennis Ramsay Conger of Manassas, a retired Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. official; five grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter.
The funeral will be held 11 a.m. today at Christ Church in Alexandria. Graveside services will be conducted 1 p.m. Saturday at Cross Keys Presbyterian Church cemetery by the Rev. James Lincoln. The family suggests contributions be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg.
(Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA, Fri, Feb 11, 1977)
As a young woman, she taught Sunday school at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria and was a student at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where she graduated as a portrait and landscape painter. In 1900, she left Alexandria for the Shenandoah Valley to recover from an attack of malaria. She established an art school in Harrisonburg where the Presbyterian Church on Court Square now stands. In 1906, she was married to Dr. Clement E. Conger of Harrisonburg, who died in 1932. While in Harrisonburg, she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and was a leader in Red Cross activities during World War I.
She returned to Alexandria in 1944. Surviving are two sons, Clement E. Conger, Jr. of Alexandria, curator of the White House and State Department diplomatic reception rooms, and Dennis Ramsay Conger of Manassas, a retired Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. official; five grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter.
The funeral will be held 11 a.m. today at Christ Church in Alexandria. Graveside services will be conducted 1 p.m. Saturday at Cross Keys Presbyterian Church cemetery by the Rev. James Lincoln. The family suggests contributions be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg.
(Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA, Fri, Feb 11, 1977)
Mrs. Conger was born Jan. 31, 1874 in Alexandria and was a daughter of the late George William and Harriet Fawcett Ramsey. She grew up in another Ramsay house on Prince Street.
As a young woman, she taught Sunday school at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria and was a student at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where she graduated as a portrait and landscape painter. In 1900, she left Alexandria for the Shenandoah Valley to recover from an attack of malaria. She established an art school in Harrisonburg where the Presbyterian Church on Court Square now stands. In 1906, she was married to Dr. Clement E. Conger of Harrisonburg, who died in 1932. While in Harrisonburg, she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and was a leader in Red Cross activities during World War I.
She returned to Alexandria in 1944. Surviving are two sons, Clement E. Conger, Jr. of Alexandria, curator of the White House and State Department diplomatic reception rooms, and Dennis Ramsay Conger of Manassas, a retired Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. official; five grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter.
The funeral will be held 11 a.m. today at Christ Church in Alexandria. Graveside services will be conducted 1 p.m. Saturday at Cross Keys Presbyterian Church cemetery by the Rev. James Lincoln. The family suggests contributions be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg.
(Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA, Fri, Feb 11, 1977)
As a young woman, she taught Sunday school at Christ Episcopal Church in Alexandria and was a student at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, where she graduated as a portrait and landscape painter. In 1900, she left Alexandria for the Shenandoah Valley to recover from an attack of malaria. She established an art school in Harrisonburg where the Presbyterian Church on Court Square now stands. In 1906, she was married to Dr. Clement E. Conger of Harrisonburg, who died in 1932. While in Harrisonburg, she was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and was a leader in Red Cross activities during World War I.
She returned to Alexandria in 1944. Surviving are two sons, Clement E. Conger, Jr. of Alexandria, curator of the White House and State Department diplomatic reception rooms, and Dennis Ramsay Conger of Manassas, a retired Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. official; five grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter.
The funeral will be held 11 a.m. today at Christ Church in Alexandria. Graveside services will be conducted 1 p.m. Saturday at Cross Keys Presbyterian Church cemetery by the Rev. James Lincoln. The family suggests contributions be made to Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg.
(Daily News-Record, Harrisonburg, VA, Fri, Feb 11, 1977)
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