Frances Lowell Burnett (Jan.14,1914 - Apr.16,2001) was named for her father and his beloved step-grandmother, Frances Lowell, the second wife of James Russell Lowell, but was affectionately known as "Quitsey." She was born in Boston and lived most of her life at the family's home in Manchester, Massachsetts on Cape Ann near Gloucester. She never married, but earned a degree in Physics from Smith, worked on the top-secret proximity fuze for Sylvania in the neighboring town of Ipswich, Massachusetts during WWII, earned a PhD in Ornithology from Cornell University, worked at Harvard's Peabody Institute of Comparative Zoology, traveled to Mexico for Institute wildlife research, and was a founder and keystone activist of the Manchester-Essex Conservation Trust that successfully preserved the wild lands in and around our hometown. There is no gravestone for her in Southborough, Massachusetts as she wished her ashes to be scattered at sea. (Information provided by her nephew, Jay Gallagher)
Frances Lowell Burnett (Jan.14,1914 - Apr.16,2001) was named for her father and his beloved step-grandmother, Frances Lowell, the second wife of James Russell Lowell, but was affectionately known as "Quitsey." She was born in Boston and lived most of her life at the family's home in Manchester, Massachsetts on Cape Ann near Gloucester. She never married, but earned a degree in Physics from Smith, worked on the top-secret proximity fuze for Sylvania in the neighboring town of Ipswich, Massachusetts during WWII, earned a PhD in Ornithology from Cornell University, worked at Harvard's Peabody Institute of Comparative Zoology, traveled to Mexico for Institute wildlife research, and was a founder and keystone activist of the Manchester-Essex Conservation Trust that successfully preserved the wild lands in and around our hometown. There is no gravestone for her in Southborough, Massachusetts as she wished her ashes to be scattered at sea. (Information provided by her nephew, Jay Gallagher)
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