Henrietta 'Bee' Watson Lutes
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Henrietta "Bee" Lutes, 103, a former teacher and acting principal in the District's public schools, died of congestive heart
failure March 19 at Asbury Methodist Home in Gaithersburg, where she lived.
Mrs. Lutes taught in Washington's public schools for 34 years, and spent three of those years as acting principal at
John Eaton and Oyster elementary schools. She retired in the early 1960s.
Henrietta Watson was a native Washingtonian and graduate of the old Wilson Normal School and George Washington
University. She was a member of Woodside United Methodist Church in Silver Spring.
Her first husband, William F. Burriss, died in 1951 after 28 years of marriage. Her second husband, Fred L. Lutes, died
in 1966 after seven years of marriage. Three stepchildren also predeceased her: Mildred Biggs in 1995, Lawrence B.
Lutes in 2004 and Edna Shaw in 1999.
Survivors include a son from her first marriage, Leighton L. Burriss of Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; eight grandchildren; 11
great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; and a great-great-great-grandson.
-- Patricia Sullivan