Ellen Swartout Potter passed away on Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. She was born on Oct. 25, 1921, in Ithaca, N.Y. She graduated from the New York State Teachers College at Albany (now the State University of New York at Albany) and moved to St. Albans in 1948 where she became a teacher in the Kanawha County Schools. She will be best remembered professionally as senior English teacher at Saint Albans High School from the early 1950s to the middle 1980s. She received her masters degree in English from Marshall University and taught classes at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. She was active as a director and an actress in Community Theater and was a member of the Saint Albans Library Board of Directors. Surviving: son, J. Randall Potter and his wife, Rebecca Wiese Potter, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., their daughter, Jennifer, and son, Andrew; her son, Michael R. Potter and his wife, Joan Garska Potter, of Chapel Hill, N.C., and their sons, Michael and Daniel; son-in-law, Claude E. Lee III of Vienna, W.Va., and his son, Christopher, and daughter, Caitlin. Her daughter, Janice Potter Lee, passed away on Sept. 13, 2003. Mrs. Potter is also survived by her brother John R. Swartout, his wife, Evelyn.
-- Charleston WV Gazette, 10/20/2003
-- Charleston WV Gazette, 10/20/2003
Ellen Swartout Potter passed away on Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. She was born on Oct. 25, 1921, in Ithaca, N.Y. She graduated from the New York State Teachers College at Albany (now the State University of New York at Albany) and moved to St. Albans in 1948 where she became a teacher in the Kanawha County Schools. She will be best remembered professionally as senior English teacher at Saint Albans High School from the early 1950s to the middle 1980s. She received her masters degree in English from Marshall University and taught classes at Morris Harvey College in Charleston. She was active as a director and an actress in Community Theater and was a member of the Saint Albans Library Board of Directors. Surviving: son, J. Randall Potter and his wife, Rebecca Wiese Potter, of Menomonee Falls, Wis., their daughter, Jennifer, and son, Andrew; her son, Michael R. Potter and his wife, Joan Garska Potter, of Chapel Hill, N.C., and their sons, Michael and Daniel; son-in-law, Claude E. Lee III of Vienna, W.Va., and his son, Christopher, and daughter, Caitlin. Her daughter, Janice Potter Lee, passed away on Sept. 13, 2003. Mrs. Potter is also survived by her brother John R. Swartout, his wife, Evelyn.
-- Charleston WV Gazette, 10/20/2003
-- Charleston WV Gazette, 10/20/2003
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