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Notes for Nancy Bradford DU PONT

Nancy duPont Reynolds Cooch, age 95, of Greenville, DE passed away quietly at her home on Wednesday, January 21, 2015.

Mrs. Cooch was born in 1919 to the late Eugene Eleuthere and Catherine Dulcinea Moxham duPont. She attended Tower Hill School, graduated from Westover School in Middlebury, CT in 1937, and attended Goldey Beacom College from 1938-1939. In 1940, she married her first husband, William Glasgow Reynolds, who passed away in January 1987. In 2003, she married Edward W. Cooch, Jr. who passed away in September 2010.

She was very active in community affairs serving as past president of the Board of Directors Children's Home in Claymont, past president of the Children's Bureau of Delaware; past regent of Gunston Hall in Lorton, VA, past president of the Garden Club of Wilmington, and guild and research staff of Winterthur Museum from 1955 to 1963.

At the time of her death, Mrs. Cooch was serving as a member of the Advisory Committee for Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, the Advisory Garden and Grounds Committee of Winterthur Museum and on the Advisory Architectural Committee at the University of Delaware.

Mrs. Cooch was co-chairman of the committee to restore and administer St. James Brick Church in McClellanville, South Carolina and chairman of the duPont Family Chapel Committee.

A well-known sculptor, she pioneered carving in lucite and also worked in bronze. She had several single-artist shows including Caldwells, Inc. in 1975 and a show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 1998. She exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, National Sculpture League in New York City in 1963, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1977, Lever House in New York City in 1979 and in numerous local group shows.

Her work is represented in numerous private collections and in permanent collections at Wilmington Trust Co., Stephenson Science Building at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, Luther Towers in Wilmington, Longwood Gardens, Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, University of Delaware, Biggs Museum in Dover and includes the crucifix statue at the duPont Family Chapel in Greenville.

She researched and designed over 400 needlepoint kneelers for Christ Episcopal Church in Greenville, DE and wrote the book on religious symbolism, "Needlepoint Kneelers."

She is a member of the Colonial Dames, a charter member of the Mayflower Descendants, League of American Pen Women, Confrerie des Chevaliers du Tastevin Clos de Vougeot in Bourgogne, France, the Garden Club of Wilmington, and the Colony Club in New York City.

Mrs. Cooch was predeceased by her eldest daughter, Katedulwe Glasgow Reynolds. She is survived by three children, William Bradford Reynolds, Mary Parminter McKeever and Cynthia du Pont Farris, 12 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 12:30 pm on Wednesday January 28, 2015 at the duPont Family Chapel, Greenville, DE. Interment will be private.
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