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2005 |
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Elizabeth Eustace Earll Verlie |
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| Elizabeth Eustace Earll Verlie, 85, a native Washingtonian who worked as a teacher and social worker in Ohio, died of cancer Dec. 15 at her home in Oberlin, Ohio. |
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| A fourth generation Washingtonian, Mrs. Verlie was a member of the 1937 inaugural graduating class of Woodrow Wilson High School. |
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| She went on to graduate from Swarthmore College and was an employee of the Agriculture, Labor and Justice departments during World War II. |
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| After the war, she and her husband settled in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, where they lived for the next 40 years. She taught English as a second language and worked as a social worker with an agency that provides assistance to recent immigrants. |
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| In the 1990s, she helped create a volunteer clearinghouse to match volunteers with the needs of a community. In 2003 she described the structure of the organization as a guest speaker at the Washington headquarters of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. |
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| Survivors include her husband, E. Joseph Verlie of Oberlin; two daughters, Anne Vollbrecht of Dexter, Mich., and Joan Hall of Gross Pointe, Mich.; a brother, Robert E. Earll of Chevy Chase; a sister, Letitia Earll Pfanz of Gaithersburg; six grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. |
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| A daughter, Carolyn Kent, died in 1988. |
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