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2010
Louise L. Grass, 90, a lifelong Washingtonian and a past board member
of the German Orphan Home and Swiss Benevolent Society, both in the
District, died of renal failure Feb. 28 at the Washington Home hospice.
Mrs. Grass did volunteer work with the D.C. Society for Crippled
Children, Meals on Wheels and So Others May Eat. Her memberships
included St. David's Episcopal Church in Washington and the
Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, a
civic group.
Louise Lowe grew up in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood
and, according to her family, she recalled playing on the White House
lawn and in Lafayette Square as a child. She was a 1937 graduate of
Western High School and during World War II did administrative and
clerical work for the Army Map Service.
Her husband, William H. Grass, whom she married in 1952, died in 1991.
She had no immediate survivors.
-- Adam Bernstein
Louise L. Grass, 90, a lifelong Washingtonian and a past board member
of the German Orphan Home and Swiss Benevolent Society, both in the
District, died of renal failure Feb. 28 at the Washington Home hospice.
Mrs. Grass did volunteer work with the D.C. Society for Crippled
Children, Meals on Wheels and So Others May Eat. Her memberships
included St. David's Episcopal Church in Washington and the
Association of the Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia, a
civic group.
Louise Lowe grew up in Washington's Foggy Bottom neighborhood
and, according to her family, she recalled playing on the White House
lawn and in Lafayette Square as a child. She was a 1937 graduate of
Western High School and during World War II did administrative and
clerical work for the Army Map Service.
Her husband, William H. Grass, whom she married in 1952, died in 1991.
She had no immediate survivors.
-- Adam Bernstein