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Jean Claudia Ramsay

Female 1935 - 2014  (Age 78)  Submit Photo / DocumentSubmit Photo / Document
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  • Name Jean Claudia Ramsay  [1, 2, 3] 
    Born 25 Nov 1935  New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Female 
    Died 30 Jun 2014 

    Parents

    Family ID: F3691 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart  
    Father Claude Barnett Ramsay,   b. Apr 1890, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Mar 1959, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68) 
    Mother Myrtle Marie Scott,   b. 7 Oct 1900, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Nov 1985, Flushing, Queens, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85) 

    Family 1

    Family ID: F3838 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart  |  Last Modified: 22 Dec 2020   
    Husband 1 Robert Turrell Bower,   b. 1 Jun 1919, Montpelier, Vermont Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Jun 1990  (Age 71) 

    Family 2

    Family ID: F3837 Group Sheet  |  Family Chart  |  Last Modified: 22 Dec 2020   
    2 W.S. Just 
    Children 
     

    1. Jennifer Ramsay Just

     

    2. Julia Barnett Just

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    Siblings 1 sibling 
     1. William C Ramsay,   b. 6 Nov 1930, New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Nov 2016  (Age 86)
     2. Jean Claudia Ramsay,   b. 25 Nov 1935, New York City, New York, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Jun 2014  (Age 78)
     

  • Notes

    • BOWER--Jean. 78, of Washington, D.C., on June 30th of complications of ALS. She was born in Queens on November 25th, 1935, to Claude and Myrtle Ramsay, and was a graduate of Vassar College and Georgetown University Law School. A lifetime love of poetry, pursued first at Vassar (she interviewed Ezra Pound for her thesis paper), blossomed in later life when she served on the Folger Poetry Board (as its chairman from 2002-2006) and wrote poetry herself, contributing to the anthology "In a Certain Place." Jean lived every day with a devotion to literature and the arts that enriched the lives of all who came in contact with her. In addition to avidly supporting various cultural institutions (NPR, the MET, the Kennedy Center), she regularly opened her Georgetown home for wonderful parties that continued to her last year of life. As an attorney, Jean relentlessly fought for the rights of abused and neglected children, serving as the director of the Counsel for Child Abuse and Neglect of the D.C. Superior Court, from 1978 until her retirement; in 1984 she received the Beatrice Rosenberg Award from the District of Columbia Bar Association for Excellence in Government. Jean was known for her kindness, wit, generosity and her devotion to her friends. Jean's first marriage, to Ward Swift Just, ended in divorce; a loving second marriage to Robert Turrell Bower ended with Bob's death in 1990. She is survived by her brother, William Ramsay; two children, Jennifer Ramsay Just and Julia Barnett Just, and a step-son, Stephen Bower; and four grandchildren. She will be deeply mourned by her family and many dear friends in Washington, D.C., and Quogue, Long Island. The funeral will be held on Saturday, July 12, at 11am at the Church of the Atonement in Quogue. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Family Matters of Greater Washington.

      Published in The New York Times on July 6, 2014

  • Source Citations

    1. [S8] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627;), Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Queens, New York; Roll: m-t0627-02752; Page: 14A; Enumeration District: 41-1733A.

    2. [S383] New York, New York, Birth Index, 1910-1965, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;).

    3. [S345] New York State, Marriage Index, 1881-1967, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;), New York State Department of Health; Albany, NY, USA; New York State Marriage Index.

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