Barbara P. Wroth, 80, formerly of Meeting Street, a French teacher at the Mary C. Wheeler School until retiring, died Thursday at the Health Havens Nursing Home, East Providence. She was the widow of Lawrence C. Wroth, former librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Born in Burlington, Vt., a daughter of the late Frederick S. and Mary (Henry) Pease, she lived in Providence since 1929.
Mrs. Wroth was a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1925, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She received a master's degree in French and French literature at Radcliffe in 1925, and had also studied for a year at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She taught at Burlington High School, Burlington, the Bryn Mawr School, Maryland, and the Mary C. Wheeler School, from 1929 to 1930, and from 1957 to 1964. She was a member of the Providence Athenaeum, the Society of Colonial Dames, the Providence Art Club, the Shakespeare Society, the Review Club and the Ladies of the Brown Faculty.
Throughout her life, she was a student and supporter of French culture. She was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Providence, and served as its treasurer for many years. In 1949, the French government awarded her a silver medal in recognition of her service organizing American aid to France during and after World War II.
She leaves three sons, L. Kinvin Wroth of New Gloucester, Maine, Thomas G. Wroth of Lebanon, N.J., and William H. Wroth of Bloomington, Ind.; a sister, Katharine P. Carleton of Charlotte, Vt., and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Memorial Chapel, Central Congregational Church, Angell Street. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery.
Providence Journal (RI) - Sunday, July 1, 1984
Born in Burlington, Vt., a daughter of the late Frederick S. and Mary (Henry) Pease, she lived in Providence since 1929.
Mrs. Wroth was a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1925, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She received a master's degree in French and French literature at Radcliffe in 1925, and had also studied for a year at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She taught at Burlington High School, Burlington, the Bryn Mawr School, Maryland, and the Mary C. Wheeler School, from 1929 to 1930, and from 1957 to 1964. She was a member of the Providence Athenaeum, the Society of Colonial Dames, the Providence Art Club, the Shakespeare Society, the Review Club and the Ladies of the Brown Faculty.
Throughout her life, she was a student and supporter of French culture. She was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Providence, and served as its treasurer for many years. In 1949, the French government awarded her a silver medal in recognition of her service organizing American aid to France during and after World War II.
She leaves three sons, L. Kinvin Wroth of New Gloucester, Maine, Thomas G. Wroth of Lebanon, N.J., and William H. Wroth of Bloomington, Ind.; a sister, Katharine P. Carleton of Charlotte, Vt., and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Memorial Chapel, Central Congregational Church, Angell Street. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery.
Providence Journal (RI) - Sunday, July 1, 1984
Barbara P. Wroth, 80, formerly of Meeting Street, a French teacher at the Mary C. Wheeler School until retiring, died Thursday at the Health Havens Nursing Home, East Providence. She was the widow of Lawrence C. Wroth, former librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.
Born in Burlington, Vt., a daughter of the late Frederick S. and Mary (Henry) Pease, she lived in Providence since 1929.
Mrs. Wroth was a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1925, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She received a master's degree in French and French literature at Radcliffe in 1925, and had also studied for a year at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She taught at Burlington High School, Burlington, the Bryn Mawr School, Maryland, and the Mary C. Wheeler School, from 1929 to 1930, and from 1957 to 1964. She was a member of the Providence Athenaeum, the Society of Colonial Dames, the Providence Art Club, the Shakespeare Society, the Review Club and the Ladies of the Brown Faculty.
Throughout her life, she was a student and supporter of French culture. She was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Providence, and served as its treasurer for many years. In 1949, the French government awarded her a silver medal in recognition of her service organizing American aid to France during and after World War II.
She leaves three sons, L. Kinvin Wroth of New Gloucester, Maine, Thomas G. Wroth of Lebanon, N.J., and William H. Wroth of Bloomington, Ind.; a sister, Katharine P. Carleton of Charlotte, Vt., and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Memorial Chapel, Central Congregational Church, Angell Street. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery.
Providence Journal (RI) - Sunday, July 1, 1984
Born in Burlington, Vt., a daughter of the late Frederick S. and Mary (Henry) Pease, she lived in Providence since 1929.
Mrs. Wroth was a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1925, and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She received a master's degree in French and French literature at Radcliffe in 1925, and had also studied for a year at the Sorbonne, Paris, France. She taught at Burlington High School, Burlington, the Bryn Mawr School, Maryland, and the Mary C. Wheeler School, from 1929 to 1930, and from 1957 to 1964. She was a member of the Providence Athenaeum, the Society of Colonial Dames, the Providence Art Club, the Shakespeare Society, the Review Club and the Ladies of the Brown Faculty.
Throughout her life, she was a student and supporter of French culture. She was a member of the Alliance Francaise, Providence, and served as its treasurer for many years. In 1949, the French government awarded her a silver medal in recognition of her service organizing American aid to France during and after World War II.
She leaves three sons, L. Kinvin Wroth of New Gloucester, Maine, Thomas G. Wroth of Lebanon, N.J., and William H. Wroth of Bloomington, Ind.; a sister, Katharine P. Carleton of Charlotte, Vt., and 10 grandchildren.
A funeral service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Wilson Memorial Chapel, Central Congregational Church, Angell Street. Burial will be in Swan Point Cemetery.
Providence Journal (RI) - Sunday, July 1, 1984
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