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Eleanor <I>White</I> Worthy

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Eleanor White Worthy

Birth
Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Death
5 Apr 1936 (aged 38)
Saltville, Smyth County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA Add to Map
Plot
507
Memorial ID
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Eleanor Worthy, 38, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Clark of Vermont and Arlington, VA, and wife of Ray Banner Worthy, and mother of Ellen, David and Peter.
Her death was caused by pneumonia.
She received her education at home until fifteen years ago, when she spent two years at the finishing school, Bishop Hopkins Hall, at Burlington on Lake Champlain. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1919 where she was a Durant Scholar, was president of the sophomore class and president of the Senior Shakespearean Society. She then spent a year in the office of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Landscape architect of California, and a year and a half in their employ, in developing Palos Verdes Estates near Los Angeles; and then a year doing editorial work in Boston. She was a graduate of the Cambridge school of Domestic and Landscape Art with the degree of L. A. given by Smith College.
Her engagement to Ray Bonner Worthy of Wolf Point, Montana was announced in the Vermont Journal August 7, 1925 with the wedding planned for August. Mr. Worthy was a construction engineer connected with the Matthieson Alkali Works of Saltville, VA.
Her ashes were buried in Ascutney Cemetery.
Eleanor Worthy, 38, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Clark of Vermont and Arlington, VA, and wife of Ray Banner Worthy, and mother of Ellen, David and Peter.
Her death was caused by pneumonia.
She received her education at home until fifteen years ago, when she spent two years at the finishing school, Bishop Hopkins Hall, at Burlington on Lake Champlain. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1919 where she was a Durant Scholar, was president of the sophomore class and president of the Senior Shakespearean Society. She then spent a year in the office of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Landscape architect of California, and a year and a half in their employ, in developing Palos Verdes Estates near Los Angeles; and then a year doing editorial work in Boston. She was a graduate of the Cambridge school of Domestic and Landscape Art with the degree of L. A. given by Smith College.
Her engagement to Ray Bonner Worthy of Wolf Point, Montana was announced in the Vermont Journal August 7, 1925 with the wedding planned for August. Mr. Worthy was a construction engineer connected with the Matthieson Alkali Works of Saltville, VA.
Her ashes were buried in Ascutney Cemetery.


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