Dorothy Louise Nesbit Brickhouse

BRICKHOUSE,

DOROTHY LOUISE NESBIT LAYBOURNE

Former social worker, died on April 18, 2005 at age 92 after a stroke at her home at Collington, in Mitchellville, MD. Mrs. Brickhouse was born on April 17, 1913 in Martin's Ferry, OH and grew up in Springfield, OH and St. Louis, MO, where her father was a Presbyterian minister. She graduated from The John Burroughs School in St. Louis in 1930, attended Western College for Women in Oxford, OH, for two years and then attended Washington University in St. Louis, graduating from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work in 1934.

She worked as a social worker in St. Louis for two years and then married Lawrence E. Laybourne on May 30, 1937. She lived with her husband in St. Louis for eight years, while he worked as a reporter for the St. Louis Dispatch. In 1943, he went to work for Time, Inc. and the couple moved to Ottawa, where he opened the first Canadian office for Time. They lived in a number of places around the world after that, on various assignments for the magazine, including Washington, D.C., Scarsdale, NY, Toronto, Canada, Pound Ridge, NY, Tokyo, Japan, Bronxville, NY, and Washington, D.C. for a second time in 1970.

Mrs. Laybourne did a great deal of volunteer work for a variety of social welfare agencies in the various places she lived, including work for the American Red Cross, the International Student House in Washing ton, D.C., the Ontario Welfare Counsel, a school for autistic children in Toronto, a leprosarium in Tokyo, Recordings for the Blind and the Volunteer Clearing House.

Mr. Laybourne died on February 12, 1976. The couple had three children, Cindy (1938), Kit (1943) and Anne (1946).

Mrs Laybourne met Gregory Brickhouse, a widower, on a trip to Antartica in January, 1981 and the couple married on May 15, 1982. He died on July 7, 1988.

Mrs. Brickhouse was a member of St. Albans Parish in Washington, D.C. When the Episcopal Diocese of Washington was given the property and funds with which to develop a retirement community, Mrs. Brickhouse was a member of the committee which planned and developed what became the Collington Episcopal Life Care Retirement Community, a 125-acre development in Mitchellville, MD, which opened its doors in 1988. She was one of its early residents, moving there in 1990.

She is survived by her three children, Cindy Ryley of Ottowa Canada, Kit Laybourne of New York City and Dr. Anne Kendall of Washington, D.C.; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A private memorial service was held on April 22, 2005. Donations in Mrs. Brickhouse's memory may be made to The American Red Cross, In Memory of Dorothy Brickhouse, 8550 Arlington Boulevard, Fairfax, VA 22031.