THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Tuesday, August 16, 1994 TAG: 9408160277
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B8 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: GLOUCESTER LENGTH: Short : 43 lines
Mrs. Ben Brown Pickett died Aug. 15, 1994.
She was born June 19, 1923, in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, the daughter of Pauline Vanuxem Maynard and William Johnson Taylor Jr. As a teenager, she lived with her mother and her stepfather, Theodore Pratt at Little England, Bena, Va. She was educated at the Greenvale School in New York and the Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
She was a member of Abingdon Episcopal Church in Gloucester County and the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia. She was active in her community and in the Tidewater area. She was a member of the Boards of Directors of the Francis N. Sanders Nursing Home, the Sanders Common, Ltd., the Gloucester Woman's Club, and the Long Bridge Ordinary Foundation.
She was a past president of the Garden Club of Gloucester. She was a member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and was one of the founders of the Petersburg Fort Henry Branch of the APVA. She was also a member of the Gloucester Historical Society and the Citizen's Committee for the Chesapeake Bay.
She is survived by her husband, RADM Ben Brown Pickett, USN (Ret.); her sisters, Mary Pratt Boyd of Richmond; her son, John Brooke Spotswood II of Wicomico, Va.; his wife, Louise; her granddaughters, Patricia Taylor and Joanna Rachel, as well as her stepson, Ludwell Lewis Pickett, and his wife, Martha, of Gloucester. Her marriage to Henry Clay Kinsey Spotswood ended with his death in 1992.
A funeral service conducted by the Rev. Dennis J.J. Schmidt, will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Abingdon Episcopal Church, White Marsh, Va. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will be at ``Ringfield.'' The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Sanders Nursing Home, Box 130, Gloucester, Va. 23061, or to The Ware Academy, Box 280, Gloucester, Va. 23061. Arrangements are by Hogg Funeral Home, Gloucester Point, Va.
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