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Notes for Elizabeth Roberts WRIGGINS
Elizabeth Conger, 99, owner of women's specialty stores
By Walter F. Naedele
Inquirer Staff Writer
Elizabeth Wriggins Conger, 99, who had been an owner of women's specialty stores in the region, died of complications from a head injury on Sunday, Jan. 2, at the Health Center of the Pine Run retirement community in Doylestown Township, where she had resided for the last seven years.
Born in Philadelphia, Mrs. Conger graduated from Germantown Friends School in 1929. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1933 from Wellesley College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Kappa Chi.
From 1933 until she married in 1935, she worked for the Beneficial Life Insurance Co. in Philadelphia as an actuary.
A daughter, Barbara Leiby, said that in World War II Mrs. Conger joined her father's firm, B.F. Dewees, a women's specialty store at 1122-24 Chestnut St., with branches in Drexel Hill and Haddonfield. She was vice president until the company was sold in 1964.
From 1938 until she moved to the Pine Run retirement community in 1981, Mrs. Conger was a volunteer at Abington Memorial Hospital, where she was a member of the Women's Board in the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1980s, she also volunteered at Doylestown Hospital.
A member of golf and tennis teams at the Huntingdon Valley Country Club, she was an officer of the Women's Golf Association of Philadelphia.
Besides her daughter Barbara, Mrs. Conger is survived by daughter Joan Allen; four grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter. Her husband of 51 years, Fred, died in 1986.
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