Elizabeth Field Herman Booth

Elizabeth Field Herman Booth, 82, died Thursday, (February 7, 2002) of Cromwell Court, Old Saybrook was born in Boston, MA, the daughter of the Late Dr. and Mrs. Edwards Woodbridge Herman of Lincoln, MA. She was graduated from Concord Academy, Concord, MA and the New England School of Art. She also studied painting at the Cleveland Museum of Art and under several artists in Pittsburgh, PA. She grew up in Lincoln, MA and lived in Cleveland, OH, and Sewickley, PA before moving to Old Saybrook in 1987. She was a member of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, and a direct descendant of Governor Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was a member of the Junior League of Pittsburgh, the Garden Club of America, the Village Garden Club in Sewickley, PA, the New London Garden Club, the Old Saybrook Garden Club, and the Old Lyme Country Club. She was a past president of the Child Health Association. She taught in the Sewickley Academy Kindergarten for over ten years. She was a founder of C.C.S Creative Convention Services, and served as president for its first ten years. C.C.S is a service business providing meeting planners with banquets, theme parties, and sightseeing tours. During the war, she worked at Harvard Radio Research Laboratories. Her husband, Lloyd Booth, preceded her in death. She leaves three children, Lloyd Booth, III of Bremerton, WA, Elizabeth Booth Tierney of Riverside, and Charles H. Booth of Denver, CO; and three grandchildren. Also she leaves a sister, Mrs. Alan McClennen of Chatham, MA; and a brother, William Field Herman of Georgetown, ME. Another brother, John Edwards Herman, preceded her in death. A memorial service will be at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme on Monday, 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the First Congregational Church, Ferry Street, Old Lyme, or to Memorial Sloan Kettering, Cancer Research Center, 1275 York Ave., NY 10021. Swan Funeral Home, 1224 Boston Post Rd., Old Saybrook, has care of arrangements.