Elizabeth Densmore.

WORCESTER Elizabeth Densmore, age 96, a long-time resident of Worcester, died peacefully in her home at Goddard House on September 26, 2011. Miss Densmore was born in Newton, Massachusetts in 1915, a daughter of Edward Dana Densmore and Annie Louise (Walley) Densmore. Thought of by all who knew her as a wonderfully gracious woman, she was truly interested in other people and the world around her. She was raised in Brookline and Princeton, where the family summered at Russell Corner. Miss Densmore attended Brookline public schools, and graduated from The May School in Boston, and Radcliffe College, class of 1936, with a concentration in English. She maintained lifelong friendships with several of her Radcliffe classmates. Following college, she was secretary to the president of Kenyon College for five years, until war broke out. During World War II she worked for a year at Wyman Gordon, where she produced a newsletter about the home front for employees in the armed forces. She also was a volunteer plane spotter on the Princeton common. In 1943 she moved to Washington, D.C.,where she worked for the War Department at the newly opened Pentagon, reading intercepted Japanese messages. When the war ended she returned to Worcester and worked at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, first as a reporter and later as the editor of the Nancy Burncoat page for the Sunday Telegram. In this role she covered the goings-on of many local clubs, societies, and organizations. From 1962 to 1975 she worked at the Worcester Art Museum as Public Relations Director. She was active in the League of Women Voters, the Friends of...