EXETER — Elinor Burnett Vaughan died Monday, March 5, 2007, at RiverWoods retirement community. She was 93.
Artist, teacher, Girl Scout professional and loving mother of five children, she lived most of her life in New England and western New York state.
Born July 9, 1913, in Peterborough, Elinor was the youngest child of Edward and Ethel (Mason) Burnett of Southborough, Mass. Her family included brother Philip Mason Burnett, sisters Barbara Burnett Gratwick, Kathleen Burnett McCann, and Anne Burnett Moore, and several half sisters and half brothers, all of whom have predeceased her.
During her childhood, the family lived in Providence, R.I., and Milton, Mass., where Elinor attended Milton Academy.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1935 with a bachelor of arts degree in theater, she traveled — including a trip to Australia by steamship — and taught several years at the Rivers School in Brookline, Mass.
In 1942, Elinor was married at San Antonio, Texas, to William C. Vaughan of Buffalo, N.Y. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, she and her husband lived in Kenmore and Youngstown, N.Y., where they raised their five children and engaged in many community activities.
Most of this time was spent at Brick House Farm in Youngstown, where Elinor was constantly involved in the demands of a 90-acre farm and busy family.
During this period, she also worked several years as a field director for the Niagara County Council of Girl Scouts.
Elinor returned to New England in 1980, where she lived in Portsmouth and Kittery Point, Maine, before moving to the RiverWoods retirement community when it opened in 1994.
She was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Portsmouth and participated in various UU events at Star Island.
Elinor was an accomplished artist who worked primarily in watercolor. Exhibits of her work were held in the 1970s in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and in 1993 in Portsmouth. The latter exhibit, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was at the Portsmouth UU Church. At RiverWoods, Elinor helped set up the retirement community's art program and taught watercolor classes there in the late 1990s.
Artist, teacher, Girl Scout professional and loving mother of five children, she lived most of her life in New England and western New York state.
Born July 9, 1913, in Peterborough, Elinor was the youngest child of Edward and Ethel (Mason) Burnett of Southborough, Mass. Her family included brother Philip Mason Burnett, sisters Barbara Burnett Gratwick, Kathleen Burnett McCann, and Anne Burnett Moore, and several half sisters and half brothers, all of whom have predeceased her.
During her childhood, the family lived in Providence, R.I., and Milton, Mass., where Elinor attended Milton Academy.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1935 with a bachelor of arts degree in theater, she traveled — including a trip to Australia by steamship — and taught several years at the Rivers School in Brookline, Mass.
In 1942, Elinor was married at San Antonio, Texas, to William C. Vaughan of Buffalo, N.Y. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, she and her husband lived in Kenmore and Youngstown, N.Y., where they raised their five children and engaged in many community activities.
Most of this time was spent at Brick House Farm in Youngstown, where Elinor was constantly involved in the demands of a 90-acre farm and busy family.
During this period, she also worked several years as a field director for the Niagara County Council of Girl Scouts.
Elinor returned to New England in 1980, where she lived in Portsmouth and Kittery Point, Maine, before moving to the RiverWoods retirement community when it opened in 1994.
She was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Portsmouth and participated in various UU events at Star Island.
Elinor was an accomplished artist who worked primarily in watercolor. Exhibits of her work were held in the 1970s in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and in 1993 in Portsmouth. The latter exhibit, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was at the Portsmouth UU Church. At RiverWoods, Elinor helped set up the retirement community's art program and taught watercolor classes there in the late 1990s.
EXETER — Elinor Burnett Vaughan died Monday, March 5, 2007, at RiverWoods retirement community. She was 93.
Artist, teacher, Girl Scout professional and loving mother of five children, she lived most of her life in New England and western New York state.
Born July 9, 1913, in Peterborough, Elinor was the youngest child of Edward and Ethel (Mason) Burnett of Southborough, Mass. Her family included brother Philip Mason Burnett, sisters Barbara Burnett Gratwick, Kathleen Burnett McCann, and Anne Burnett Moore, and several half sisters and half brothers, all of whom have predeceased her.
During her childhood, the family lived in Providence, R.I., and Milton, Mass., where Elinor attended Milton Academy.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1935 with a bachelor of arts degree in theater, she traveled — including a trip to Australia by steamship — and taught several years at the Rivers School in Brookline, Mass.
In 1942, Elinor was married at San Antonio, Texas, to William C. Vaughan of Buffalo, N.Y. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, she and her husband lived in Kenmore and Youngstown, N.Y., where they raised their five children and engaged in many community activities.
Most of this time was spent at Brick House Farm in Youngstown, where Elinor was constantly involved in the demands of a 90-acre farm and busy family.
During this period, she also worked several years as a field director for the Niagara County Council of Girl Scouts.
Elinor returned to New England in 1980, where she lived in Portsmouth and Kittery Point, Maine, before moving to the RiverWoods retirement community when it opened in 1994.
She was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Portsmouth and participated in various UU events at Star Island.
Elinor was an accomplished artist who worked primarily in watercolor. Exhibits of her work were held in the 1970s in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and in 1993 in Portsmouth. The latter exhibit, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was at the Portsmouth UU Church. At RiverWoods, Elinor helped set up the retirement community's art program and taught watercolor classes there in the late 1990s.
Artist, teacher, Girl Scout professional and loving mother of five children, she lived most of her life in New England and western New York state.
Born July 9, 1913, in Peterborough, Elinor was the youngest child of Edward and Ethel (Mason) Burnett of Southborough, Mass. Her family included brother Philip Mason Burnett, sisters Barbara Burnett Gratwick, Kathleen Burnett McCann, and Anne Burnett Moore, and several half sisters and half brothers, all of whom have predeceased her.
During her childhood, the family lived in Providence, R.I., and Milton, Mass., where Elinor attended Milton Academy.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1935 with a bachelor of arts degree in theater, she traveled — including a trip to Australia by steamship — and taught several years at the Rivers School in Brookline, Mass.
In 1942, Elinor was married at San Antonio, Texas, to William C. Vaughan of Buffalo, N.Y. From the late 1940s through the 1960s, she and her husband lived in Kenmore and Youngstown, N.Y., where they raised their five children and engaged in many community activities.
Most of this time was spent at Brick House Farm in Youngstown, where Elinor was constantly involved in the demands of a 90-acre farm and busy family.
During this period, she also worked several years as a field director for the Niagara County Council of Girl Scouts.
Elinor returned to New England in 1980, where she lived in Portsmouth and Kittery Point, Maine, before moving to the RiverWoods retirement community when it opened in 1994.
She was a member of the Unitarian-Universalist Church in Portsmouth and participated in various UU events at Star Island.
Elinor was an accomplished artist who worked primarily in watercolor. Exhibits of her work were held in the 1970s in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and in 1993 in Portsmouth. The latter exhibit, on the occasion of her 80th birthday, was at the Portsmouth UU Church. At RiverWoods, Elinor helped set up the retirement community's art program and taught watercolor classes there in the late 1990s.
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