In Memory

Janet Hathaway Smith (Teach & Richie) - Class Of 1925 VIEW PROFILE

Sep 1, 1909 - Apr 18, 1997


Janet S. Teach, a potter and patron of the arts, died at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center on April 18 of injuries she suffered in a fall that day. She was 87 and lived in Rowland Park.

She founded the Towson Woman's Committee of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in the early 1960s and was its president for many years. She also had been on the boards of the BSO and the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore. She was a member of the Mill, a Baltimore potters group. She was born Janet Hathaway Smith in Los Angeles and graduated from Concord Academy in 1925.

Her 1934 marriage to Ward Ritchie ended in divorce. In 1952, she married Ludwig O. Teach, who died in 1963.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. today at Dickey Memorial Presbyterian Church, 5112 Wetheredsville Road, Dickeyville.

She is survived by two sons, Duncan W. Ritchie of Great Falls, Va., and Jonathan B. Ritchie of Glendale, Calif.; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

- from The Baltimore Sun; April 25, 1997

 


 

Oak Park Cemetery - Claremont, California

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