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Florence Emily Pitkin

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Florence Emily Pitkin

Birth
Oak Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death
27 Jun 1962 (aged 82)
Carmel Highlands, Monterey County, California, USA
Burial
Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, USA GPS-Latitude: 41.8675834, Longitude: -87.8213572
Plot
Section 1, Lot 94
Memorial ID
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Miss Emily Pitkin, Native Oak Parker, Dies in California
Miss Emily Pitkin, who was born March 13, 1880, in Oak Park to the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pitkin, died June 27 in Carmel Highlands, California, where she had lived for the past 40 years.
A graduate of Wellesley college, Miss Pitkin was a member of the Monterey County Wellesley club. She was active in the Carmel Music society, the peninsula League of Women Voters and the Carmel Foundation. Her wide interests included also the field of local art and associate membership in the Carmel Art association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs Malcolm W. Wallace of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mrs. Horace Poynter of Philadelphia, Pa., two nephews, Dr. William Wallace, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Horace M. Poynter of Andover, Mass.; and two nieces, Dr. Elizabeth Wallace, an associate professor at Toronto university, and Miss Emily R. Poynter of Philadelphia.
Inurnment took place at Forest Home cemetery in Forest Park.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 5 Jul 1962, pg. 64
Miss Emily Pitkin, Native Oak Parker, Dies in California
Miss Emily Pitkin, who was born March 13, 1880, in Oak Park to the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pitkin, died June 27 in Carmel Highlands, California, where she had lived for the past 40 years.
A graduate of Wellesley college, Miss Pitkin was a member of the Monterey County Wellesley club. She was active in the Carmel Music society, the peninsula League of Women Voters and the Carmel Foundation. Her wide interests included also the field of local art and associate membership in the Carmel Art association.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs Malcolm W. Wallace of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mrs. Horace Poynter of Philadelphia, Pa., two nephews, Dr. William Wallace, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Horace M. Poynter of Andover, Mass.; and two nieces, Dr. Elizabeth Wallace, an associate professor at Toronto university, and Miss Emily R. Poynter of Philadelphia.
Inurnment took place at Forest Home cemetery in Forest Park.
—Oak Leaves (Oak Park, IL), 5 Jul 1962, pg. 64


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