NEW YORK TIMES
January 31, 1953
MRS EDWARD GANN IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
Sister to Late Vice-President Charles Curtis
Served as His Official Hostess
Washington- Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, half-sister of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, died in her home here today, at the age of 87. She had been leading an active life until the last few days when she suffered a slight case of influenza.
Mrs. Gann, widow of Edward E. Gann, one time assistant attorney general and Washington lawyer, took a leading role in every aspect of Republican politics. She has been official hostess for her brother and rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with him after his inauguration with President Hoover. Several times president of the District's League of Republican Women, she also had headed the Senior Congress Club and the Senate Women's Club.
A famous row she had with Mrs Alice Longworth in the early days of the Hoover-Curtis administration on a question of social protocol rocked social Washington. The diplomatic corps settles the controversy by announcing an agreement that Mrs. Gann, as sister of the Vice President should be accorded the status of a "wife of the Vice President of the United States."
Mrs. Gann had been placed below the wives of diplomats in social precedence and Vice President Curtis had voiced strenuous objection.
She spent a good part of the year in recent years in aiding charity organizations, particularly the Senate Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Mrs Gann was a native of Topeka, Kansas, but had made her home in Washington for the last half-century.
Survivors include two nieces, Mrs Webster Knight of Providence, Rhode Island; and Mrs. Charles P. George of Fort Worth, Texas, and several grand-nephews and grand-nieces.
January 31, 1953
MRS EDWARD GANN IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
Sister to Late Vice-President Charles Curtis
Served as His Official Hostess
Washington- Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, half-sister of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, died in her home here today, at the age of 87. She had been leading an active life until the last few days when she suffered a slight case of influenza.
Mrs. Gann, widow of Edward E. Gann, one time assistant attorney general and Washington lawyer, took a leading role in every aspect of Republican politics. She has been official hostess for her brother and rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with him after his inauguration with President Hoover. Several times president of the District's League of Republican Women, she also had headed the Senior Congress Club and the Senate Women's Club.
A famous row she had with Mrs Alice Longworth in the early days of the Hoover-Curtis administration on a question of social protocol rocked social Washington. The diplomatic corps settles the controversy by announcing an agreement that Mrs. Gann, as sister of the Vice President should be accorded the status of a "wife of the Vice President of the United States."
Mrs. Gann had been placed below the wives of diplomats in social precedence and Vice President Curtis had voiced strenuous objection.
She spent a good part of the year in recent years in aiding charity organizations, particularly the Senate Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Mrs Gann was a native of Topeka, Kansas, but had made her home in Washington for the last half-century.
Survivors include two nieces, Mrs Webster Knight of Providence, Rhode Island; and Mrs. Charles P. George of Fort Worth, Texas, and several grand-nephews and grand-nieces.
NEW YORK TIMES
January 31, 1953
MRS EDWARD GANN IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
Sister to Late Vice-President Charles Curtis
Served as His Official Hostess
Washington- Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, half-sister of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, died in her home here today, at the age of 87. She had been leading an active life until the last few days when she suffered a slight case of influenza.
Mrs. Gann, widow of Edward E. Gann, one time assistant attorney general and Washington lawyer, took a leading role in every aspect of Republican politics. She has been official hostess for her brother and rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with him after his inauguration with President Hoover. Several times president of the District's League of Republican Women, she also had headed the Senior Congress Club and the Senate Women's Club.
A famous row she had with Mrs Alice Longworth in the early days of the Hoover-Curtis administration on a question of social protocol rocked social Washington. The diplomatic corps settles the controversy by announcing an agreement that Mrs. Gann, as sister of the Vice President should be accorded the status of a "wife of the Vice President of the United States."
Mrs. Gann had been placed below the wives of diplomats in social precedence and Vice President Curtis had voiced strenuous objection.
She spent a good part of the year in recent years in aiding charity organizations, particularly the Senate Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Mrs Gann was a native of Topeka, Kansas, but had made her home in Washington for the last half-century.
Survivors include two nieces, Mrs Webster Knight of Providence, Rhode Island; and Mrs. Charles P. George of Fort Worth, Texas, and several grand-nephews and grand-nieces.
January 31, 1953
MRS EDWARD GANN IS DEAD IN CAPITAL
Sister to Late Vice-President Charles Curtis
Served as His Official Hostess
Washington- Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann, half-sister of the late Vice President Charles Curtis, died in her home here today, at the age of 87. She had been leading an active life until the last few days when she suffered a slight case of influenza.
Mrs. Gann, widow of Edward E. Gann, one time assistant attorney general and Washington lawyer, took a leading role in every aspect of Republican politics. She has been official hostess for her brother and rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with him after his inauguration with President Hoover. Several times president of the District's League of Republican Women, she also had headed the Senior Congress Club and the Senate Women's Club.
A famous row she had with Mrs Alice Longworth in the early days of the Hoover-Curtis administration on a question of social protocol rocked social Washington. The diplomatic corps settles the controversy by announcing an agreement that Mrs. Gann, as sister of the Vice President should be accorded the status of a "wife of the Vice President of the United States."
Mrs. Gann had been placed below the wives of diplomats in social precedence and Vice President Curtis had voiced strenuous objection.
She spent a good part of the year in recent years in aiding charity organizations, particularly the Senate Red Cross and the Salvation Army. Mrs Gann was a native of Topeka, Kansas, but had made her home in Washington for the last half-century.
Survivors include two nieces, Mrs Webster Knight of Providence, Rhode Island; and Mrs. Charles P. George of Fort Worth, Texas, and several grand-nephews and grand-nieces.
