THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 9, 1997 TAG: 9702090015
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
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Hilda Bloxton Noel Schroetter, 79, of the 1200 block of Fairwater Drive, a retired Virginia Commonwealth University professor, died Feb. 5, 1997, in her residence.
Mrs. Schroetter was a native of Lynchburg, Va. She was the widow of Samuel Theodore Schroetter. She was an official editor for the University of Virginia in the 50's and was later the book review editor for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She was employed by K.S. Giniger Publishing Co., New York, as an author and editor, and among her many accomplishments edited Fox's Book of Martyrs and Let the Credit Go by J. Rives Childs. She was a member of St. James Episcopal Church, Richmond.
Mrs. Schroetter was active in the Richmond Democratic Party and was a member of the Womens Club of Richmond, Virginia Writers Club, Poetry Society of Virginia and a docent of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She was a graduate and a member of the Alumnae of Randolph Macon Women's College and received her masters in art from the University of Virginia.
Survivors include her cousins, Faye Joy and her husband the Rev. Charles Joy of Norfolk, B. Noel Fallwell of Virginia Beach, and Renere Johnson and her husband Grayson of Rockville, Va.; and two special friends, Larry and Gloria Taylor of Richmond.
A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, 1997, at Temple Beth Ahaba, Richmond, by the Rev. Robert G. Trache. Burial will be in the family plot in Bristol, Va., at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Andrews Episcopal Church Memorial Fund. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk, will be handling arrangements.
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