Ariane de Bayser Hubbard, 84, of North Chesterfield, slipped peacefully into the sleep of freedom on August 15, 2017, following a heroic battle of many years against cancer.
Born in Levallois-Perret, France on July 31, 1933, Ariane lost her father, Guillaume in 1938, when he was killed fighting the Fascists in Spain. In 1940, she and her mother, Marianna, barely escaped the Nazi onslaught into France, settling first in New York. Ariane soon moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was raised by her loving maternal grandparents, Leon and Olga Conus.
Fiercely intelligent and ferociously curious, Ariane first trained to be a professional ballerina and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater. When injury ended her dancing career, she turned to intellectual pursuits, which would last her entire life. While studying Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she would earn both her B.A. and M.A. degrees, Ariane met her future husband, Elbert Hubbard in 1950.
Together they had spent the last 67 years joined in a variety of adventures too numerous to mention. Highlights of a life lived to the brim included stints with the National Teacher Corps, doctoral studies in Russian History at Indiana University and Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, teaching at Lehigh and Cincinnati, administrative work at Georgia State and "retirement" as an escort interpreter for the State Department and docent at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Even as cancer ravaged her body, Ariane found the time to teach ESL at a local Methodist congregation. In addition to the myriad of friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched, Ariane leaves behind her beloved Elbert; their son, Daniel and daughter-in-love, Lillian of Fredericksburg, Virginia; her granddaughter, Alexandra Sweet; and her three great-grandsons, Boston, Campbell and Theodore Sweet, all of Logan, Utah; as well as numerous cousins scattered throughout the world. The family gratefully requests that all who wish to honor Ariane's memory do so through donations to the wonderful Guiding Eyes for the Blind Program which raises service dogs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Born in Levallois-Perret, France on July 31, 1933, Ariane lost her father, Guillaume in 1938, when he was killed fighting the Fascists in Spain. In 1940, she and her mother, Marianna, barely escaped the Nazi onslaught into France, settling first in New York. Ariane soon moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was raised by her loving maternal grandparents, Leon and Olga Conus.
Fiercely intelligent and ferociously curious, Ariane first trained to be a professional ballerina and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater. When injury ended her dancing career, she turned to intellectual pursuits, which would last her entire life. While studying Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she would earn both her B.A. and M.A. degrees, Ariane met her future husband, Elbert Hubbard in 1950.
Together they had spent the last 67 years joined in a variety of adventures too numerous to mention. Highlights of a life lived to the brim included stints with the National Teacher Corps, doctoral studies in Russian History at Indiana University and Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, teaching at Lehigh and Cincinnati, administrative work at Georgia State and "retirement" as an escort interpreter for the State Department and docent at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Even as cancer ravaged her body, Ariane found the time to teach ESL at a local Methodist congregation. In addition to the myriad of friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched, Ariane leaves behind her beloved Elbert; their son, Daniel and daughter-in-love, Lillian of Fredericksburg, Virginia; her granddaughter, Alexandra Sweet; and her three great-grandsons, Boston, Campbell and Theodore Sweet, all of Logan, Utah; as well as numerous cousins scattered throughout the world. The family gratefully requests that all who wish to honor Ariane's memory do so through donations to the wonderful Guiding Eyes for the Blind Program which raises service dogs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Ariane de Bayser Hubbard, 84, of North Chesterfield, slipped peacefully into the sleep of freedom on August 15, 2017, following a heroic battle of many years against cancer.
Born in Levallois-Perret, France on July 31, 1933, Ariane lost her father, Guillaume in 1938, when he was killed fighting the Fascists in Spain. In 1940, she and her mother, Marianna, barely escaped the Nazi onslaught into France, settling first in New York. Ariane soon moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was raised by her loving maternal grandparents, Leon and Olga Conus.
Fiercely intelligent and ferociously curious, Ariane first trained to be a professional ballerina and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater. When injury ended her dancing career, she turned to intellectual pursuits, which would last her entire life. While studying Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she would earn both her B.A. and M.A. degrees, Ariane met her future husband, Elbert Hubbard in 1950.
Together they had spent the last 67 years joined in a variety of adventures too numerous to mention. Highlights of a life lived to the brim included stints with the National Teacher Corps, doctoral studies in Russian History at Indiana University and Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, teaching at Lehigh and Cincinnati, administrative work at Georgia State and "retirement" as an escort interpreter for the State Department and docent at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Even as cancer ravaged her body, Ariane found the time to teach ESL at a local Methodist congregation. In addition to the myriad of friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched, Ariane leaves behind her beloved Elbert; their son, Daniel and daughter-in-love, Lillian of Fredericksburg, Virginia; her granddaughter, Alexandra Sweet; and her three great-grandsons, Boston, Campbell and Theodore Sweet, all of Logan, Utah; as well as numerous cousins scattered throughout the world. The family gratefully requests that all who wish to honor Ariane's memory do so through donations to the wonderful Guiding Eyes for the Blind Program which raises service dogs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Born in Levallois-Perret, France on July 31, 1933, Ariane lost her father, Guillaume in 1938, when he was killed fighting the Fascists in Spain. In 1940, she and her mother, Marianna, barely escaped the Nazi onslaught into France, settling first in New York. Ariane soon moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where she was raised by her loving maternal grandparents, Leon and Olga Conus.
Fiercely intelligent and ferociously curious, Ariane first trained to be a professional ballerina and was awarded a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater. When injury ended her dancing career, she turned to intellectual pursuits, which would last her entire life. While studying Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, where she would earn both her B.A. and M.A. degrees, Ariane met her future husband, Elbert Hubbard in 1950.
Together they had spent the last 67 years joined in a variety of adventures too numerous to mention. Highlights of a life lived to the brim included stints with the National Teacher Corps, doctoral studies in Russian History at Indiana University and Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, teaching at Lehigh and Cincinnati, administrative work at Georgia State and "retirement" as an escort interpreter for the State Department and docent at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Even as cancer ravaged her body, Ariane found the time to teach ESL at a local Methodist congregation. In addition to the myriad of friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched, Ariane leaves behind her beloved Elbert; their son, Daniel and daughter-in-love, Lillian of Fredericksburg, Virginia; her granddaughter, Alexandra Sweet; and her three great-grandsons, Boston, Campbell and Theodore Sweet, all of Logan, Utah; as well as numerous cousins scattered throughout the world. The family gratefully requests that all who wish to honor Ariane's memory do so through donations to the wonderful Guiding Eyes for the Blind Program which raises service dogs in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
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