Esther L. Cunningham, 87, Author, Portrait Artist
Memorial services will be held at the Bigelow Chapel, Cambridge at 20:30 a.m., Thursday for Esther Lowell Cunningham, 87, of 3 Cambridge Street;widow of Stanley Cunningham She died Monday in Salem.
Born in Southboro, she was the grand-daughter of James Russell Lowell and Joseph Burnett, founder of the St. Lawrence School.
She was the author of "Three Houses", which descries the adventures of her childhood and youth. Mrs. Cunningham was also an artist who specialized in pastel and charcoal portraits or children and in landscapes She was a pupol (sic) of Charles Hawthhorne and a student at the Museum of Fine Arts.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gordon Abbott Jr., of Manchester and Mrs Lincoln Davis of Friendship, Maine, and two sons, Joseph S. of New Orleans, and Charles C. of Chicago.
Note: Esther's SSDI record indicates her death was 6/15/1966, but the tombstone engraving and short obit indicate she died on the 20th.
Esther L. Cunningham, 87, Author, Portrait Artist
Memorial services will be held at the Bigelow Chapel, Cambridge at 20:30 a.m., Thursday for Esther Lowell Cunningham, 87, of 3 Cambridge Street;widow of Stanley Cunningham She died Monday in Salem.
Born in Southboro, she was the grand-daughter of James Russell Lowell and Joseph Burnett, founder of the St. Lawrence School.
She was the author of "Three Houses", which descries the adventures of her childhood and youth. Mrs. Cunningham was also an artist who specialized in pastel and charcoal portraits or children and in landscapes She was a pupol (sic) of Charles Hawthhorne and a student at the Museum of Fine Arts.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Gordon Abbott Jr., of Manchester and Mrs Lincoln Davis of Friendship, Maine, and two sons, Joseph S. of New Orleans, and Charles C. of Chicago.
Note: Esther's SSDI record indicates her death was 6/15/1966, but the tombstone engraving and short obit indicate she died on the 20th.
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