Obit: Sargent, Elizabeth (1903? – 1978)

Transcriber: Stan

Surnames: Sargent, Owen, Hughes, Patre, Fox

----Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 15 Mar 1978

Sargent, Elizabeth (1903? – 7 Mar 1978)

Elizabeth Owen Sargent, 74, of Farmington, Connecticut died Tuesday, March 7, 1978 at the Hartford Hospital. A former Owen resident, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Owen, and sister of John Owen of Milwaukee, was the widow of Thomas D. Sargent of White Oak Road, Farmington, Connecticut. Funeral services were conducted on Friday, March 10 at St. James Episcopal Church, Farmington. Interment was private.

Elizabeth Sargent was a past president of the University of Hartford’s Hartford Art School. She attended the Owen grade school until in seventh grade, and for two years had a governess or tutor before she went to school in the east. She was a graduate of Westover School in Waterbury, and attended Miss Nitti’s School of Music in Florence, Italy. She was a former president of the Widows Society of Greater Hartford.

Mrs. Sargent was a poet and co-author of the book “Weeds and Wildflowers,” which can be found in the Owen Public Library, as she mailed a gift copy. Many of her poems were published in the Courant’s “This Singing World.”

Grade school classmates of Elizabeth Owen Sargent were Ellen Hughes, Alice Patre, Ida Fox, and Dorothy Weddig, just a few we know in talking with Mrs. Ellen Hughes, a close friend who corresponded with her over the years. Shew as described as a person who loved the out of doors, an excellent swimmer and fencer, one who liked animals and was very clever and a wit. Another book which she wrote for her children, which was published, was Featherbee.” Mrs. Hughes was sent a copy by Mrs. Sargent, and is a story about a bird.

Mrs. Sargent was a (?) of the Institute of Living and Hartford Hospital..

She is survived by two sons, Joseph d. Sargent of West Hartford and Thomas C. Sargent of Coventry; a brother, John Owen of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and eight grandchildren.