Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Elizabeth JEANES
Elizabeth Jeanes Tatnall, 93, formerly of Whitemarsh, a devoted patron of the arts and expert gardener who served as a national judge for the Garden Clubs of America, died Friday at Memorial Hospital in Easton, Md.
The daughter of the late Henry Sulger and Cora Baird Jeanes, she graduated from the Winsor School in Boston with the class of 1920. In 1926, she married Henry Chace Tatnall, an investment banker. They moved from Whitemarsh to Royal Oak, Md., on the Eastern Shore, in 1952. He died 12 years later. She continued to live in Royal Oak until 1982, when she moved into the William Hill Manor in Easton, Md.
A cultivator of roses, she was an exhibitor and a national judge for the Garden Clubs of America. Besides serving as board member of the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, she published several articles in the bulletins of the Garden Clubs of America.
She was a member of the Old Wye Church in Wye Mills, Md., where she had served on the vestry. She was also a member of the Harbour Club of Easton, Md., the Acorn Club of Philadelphia, the Talbot County Historical Society and the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum.
She was a former member of the Colony Club of New York City and the Mount Vernon Club of Baltimore. She was also a former board member of the Philadelphia Children's Hospital and a former board member of the Junior League of Philadelphia and the woman's board of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
She is survived by a son, Henry C. Tatnall; two granddaughters; and two great-grandchildren. Daughter Sheila Tatnall Nalle died in March 1992.
Services will be held at noon Thursday at the Old Wye Church, Wye Mills, Md. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
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