Neva-Herrington-Obituary

Neva Herrington

Washington, District of Columbia

1926 - 2024

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DIED
January 17, 2024
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Washington, District of Columbia
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Herrington Neva Herrington Neva Herrington, age 97, passed away on January 17, 2024 after a brief hospital stay in Woodbridge, Virginia. She was born in New London, Connecticut on March 31, 1926, the second daughter of J. Reid Johnson and Neva Palmer Johnson. In 1944 she graduated from Ashley...

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she was a beautiful person, who inspired many young writers in so many of her classes...i would not be the writer i am today without her encouragement and influence....she introduced me to so many outstanding poets. i am grateful to have known her for so many years....having taken one of her night classes in the early 1980's on a whim. i can still hear her voice and see the joy in her eyes when she stood before the class and taught poetry.