THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 9, 1994 TAG: 9409090533
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Mary Johnston Bedell, 75, of Richmond, widow of Louis Wood Bedell, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at her residence.
Born in Norfolk, Va., she was thedaughter of the late Henry Alan Johnston, one of the five founders of the Monticello Foundation, and Katherine Hale Dickson Johnston. She was a graduate of the Todhunter School in New York City and Sweet Briar College. Mrs. Bedell served as a captain in the WACS during WWII stationed in England. She taught at St. Catherine's from 1962 to 1964. Mrs. Bedell was past president and a member of the Instructive Visiting Nurses' Association since 1968, past president and member of the Woman's Board of the Virginia Home for Boys, a member of the Virginia Museum Council, The Woman's Club, the Junior League of Richmond, the Richmond Women's Golf Association, the Country Club of Virginia, Beaumaris Yacht Club of Ontario, Canada, the Crater Club of Essex, N.Y., and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
She is survived by four sons, Reginald Hudson of San Francisco, Calif., Louis Wood Jr. of Richmond, Dickson Johnston of Richmond and Henry Alan Bedell of Tucson, Ariz.; one granddaughter, Elizabeth Dickson Bedell and four grandsons, Louis Wood III, Michael Alan, Todd Armistead and David Johnston Bedell.
Remains rest at the Central Chapel of Bennett Funeral Home, 3215 Cutshaw Ave., where the family will receive friends 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10 at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. Interment in Hollywood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Instructive Visiting Nurses Association or the Virginia Home for Boys.
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