This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EDCRF Surnames: Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.king/6804.3/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Seattle Times Tuesday, August 23, 1955 Page 34, Column 1 Mrs. George E. McCandlish Funeral services for Mrs. Virginia May McCandlish, 4423 Thackeray Place, will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow at Forkner's Mortuary. She died Saturday after a sudden illness. Burial will be in Washelli. Mrs. McCandlish was proprietor of the College Floral Nook. Mrs. McCandlish was born in Luray, Virginia. She came to Seattle in 1909. Her husband, George E. McCandlish died in 1918. She opened the floral shop about 1920. She was a member of the University Business and Professional Women's Club and the Seattle Chapter of Zonta Club International. Surviving are two daughters, Virginia Lee McCandlish, Seattle and Mrs. George William Lawson, Tokyo; a son, George E. McCandlish, Cambridge, Massachusetts; three sisters, Miss Laura Brumback, Mrs. Roy Franz and Mrs. Charles Phelan, all of Seattle; two brothers, George Brumback, San Francisco and Allie Brumback, Seattle. ========== The Seattle Times Tuesday, August 23, 1955 Page 34, Column 2 Deaths, Funerals McCandlish, Mrs. Virginia May, 4423 Thackeray Place, August 20. Mother of Virginia Lee McCandlish, Seattle; Mrs. George William Lawson, Tokyo; George E. McCandlish, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Sisters of Laura Brumback, Mrs. Roy Franz, Mrs. Charles Phelan, Allie Brumbak, Seattle; George Brumback, San Francisco. Member University Business and Professional Women's Club, Seattle Zonta Club. Services 3PM, Wednesday. Forkner's Chapel. Interment Washelli Cemetery. ========== The Seattle Times Wednesday, June 4, 1975 Page H7, Column 6 Services Held for George E. McCandlish Memorial services for Dr. George E. McCandlish, an educator and Seattle native, were held May 22 in the Friends Meeting House, Washington, D.C. He died May 19 in Perugia, Italy, where he was vacationing. Dr. McCandlish had been Chairman of the English Department at George Washington University the past five years. He was a specialist on early American literature and was editor of The Puritans, a major source book on the period. He also was a student of languages. A University of Washington graduate, Dr. McCandlish held a doctorate in American Civilization from Harvard University. He served with the American Field Service in North Africa during World War II. Later he was Executive Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in the French zone of occupied Germany. He also had served on the faculties of Brown University, the University of Delaware and Harvard and with The Harvard Press. Survivors include his wife, Violet; a daughter, Joan McCandlish, Providence, Rhode Island; two sons, Brooks McCandlish, at the University of Massachusetts and David McCandlish, at home and two sisters, Virginia McCandlish, Seattle and Laurine Lawson, Washington, D.C. ========== The Seattle Times Monday, January 31, 1944 Page 10, Column 4 George McCandlish Wins Croix de Guerre George E. McCandlish, 4423 Thackeray Place, who was with General Montgomery's Eighth Army in North Africa as a member of the American Field Service, was awarded the French Croix de Guerre for his "exceptional devotion to duty," his mother, Mrs. Virginia Lee McCandlish said today. McCandlish, 28-year-old University of Washington graduate and former Harvard instructor, is now with the North African Economic Board, working in Morocco for the rehabilitation of refugees. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.