Davies, Barbara Elliott, 1902-1981
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Barbara Elliott Davies, nee Barbara Coit Elliott, was born in Walla Walla, Washington, in 1902. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and the University of Washington in Seattle. In 1924, she earned a bachelor's degree from Whitman College. That same year, she moved to Portland. In 1930, she and David Lloyd Davies were married; they later had two children. She worked as a secretary for the Oregon Historical Society, served as president of the Portland Town Club, and served on the boards of the Fruit and Flower Day Nursery, the Visiting Nurses Association, and the Portland Garden Club. She died in 1981.
Sources: Vital records on Ancestry.com; information provided by Davies in her interview; obituary published in The Oregonian on March 2, 1981.