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Helen Ruth Selmer |
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Helen Ruth Wright |
Fødsel |
9 Nov 1909 |
Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States |
Dåp |
4 Des 1909 |
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Død |
24 Feb 2002 |
Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, United States |
- Helen Selmer Wright of Chapel Hill died Feb. 24 at Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill.
She was 92. Born in Green Bay, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin, cum laude, in 1933, majoring in economics. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. For 35 years, she lived in Charlottesville, where she was active in the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church and was organist from 1955 to 1963. She was also active in the League of Women Voters in the late 1950s and early '60s during school desegregation in Virginia.
She was president of the Albemarle chapter and later a member of the Board of the Virginia League of Women Voters. She moved to Carol Woods in 1986. A celebratory piano concert will be performed by Thomas Warburton, professor of music at the University of North Carolina and longtime friend, on March 30 at 2 p.m. in the auditorium at Carol Woods, 750 Weaver Dairy Road. At the Easter Sunday service on March 31, the choir of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church in Charlottesville, will dedicate music to her.
Survivors include three daughters, Johanna Parkes of Marco Island, Suzanne Fletcher of Boston, and Louise Reza of Richmond, eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Memorial donations may be made to the Robert D. and Helen S. Wright Scholarship Fund in International Health at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 Wolfe Baltimore, MD 21205-2179 or the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Unitarian Church, 7171 Rugby Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22903.
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1 bror og 2 søstre |
+ | 1. Florence Marie Bodel Selmer, f. 4 Mai 1904, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States d. 7 Jun 1989, Racine, Racine County, Wisconsin, United States (Alder 85 år) ▻ Carl Alfred Loeser, Sr., g. 27 Jun 1934 |  | 2. Arleen E Selmer, f. 29 Jul 1906, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States d. 5 Nov 1987, Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States (Alder 81 år) ▻ Wesley Waller Gunderson, g. 30 Nov 1943 | + | 3. Helen Ruth Selmer, f. 9 Nov 1909, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States d. 24 Feb 2002, Chapel Hill, Orange County, North Carolina, United States (Alder 92 år) ▻ Robert Dean Wright, g. 21 Jun 1934 | + | 4. Norman Henry Selmer, f. 4 Nov 1917, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States d. 10 Jan 1984, Seymour, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States (Alder 66 år) ▻ Ruth Raney, g. 7 Mar 1943 | |
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Person ID |
P399 |
Selmere uten aner og etterkommere |
Sist endret |
26 Feb 2025 |
Far |
Hans Heinrich Johannes Selmer 2x , f. 16 Apr 1875, Sct. Nikolaj Sogn, Køge, Denmark d. 29 Des 1954, Seymour, Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States (Alder 79 år) |
Mor |
Johanna M Hansen, f. Feb 1878 d. 16 Nov 1929, Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States (Alder ~ 51 år) |
Ekteskap |
24 Nov 1902 |
Green Bay, Brown County, Wisconsin, United States |
Age at Marriage |
He : 27 år og 7 months - She : 24 år og 9 months. |
Famile ID |
F70 |
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