Lavinia T. Wadsworth, a long time Winchester resident. Pioneer woman lawyer. Graduate of Portia Law School(LLB, 1935). Then the only law school extant exclusively for women. She was instrumental in founding the Law Clubs at Portia, Class President, Member of the Massachusetts Bar Assn Field: Probate law in private office of blind lawyer, Winchester, Mass.; later Mortgage Loan Department of the Workingman’s Cooperative Bank, Boston; and the John Hancock Life Insurance Co., Boston.
Born West Somerville, Nov. 10, 1911, to Augustus B. Tripp and Maude E.W. Tripp.
Maternal grandmother Mary Ames of North Easton, Mass. She married Lewis L. Wadsworth, Jr.; Harvard (1930), Harvard Law(1933), partner and corporate lawyer in an old Boston firm. She settled in Winchester, Mass, and devoted herself to her family and various charitable causes including the protection of endangered species. Children: Mary W. Darby of Tuxedo Park, NY; Martha W. Bellows of Winchester, Mass. Grandchildren: Twins: Abigail W. Darby and Lawrence A. Darby, IV; Lewis W. Bellows, and Christopher W. Bellows; great-grandson: Lewis W. Bellows, Jr.
Mrs. Wadsworth was a long time service member of the Winton Club, Winchester, benefiting the Winchester Hospital; a former member of a legislative committee of the Mass Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Children; former Trustee, Pilgrim Society,
Plymouth, Mass.; Member, Society of Mayflower Descendants thru Dr. Samuel Fuller. She held office in the League of Women Voters; PTA; Girl Scouts, in Winchester; as well as the Women’s Unitarian Alliance in Winchester and Plymouth. She and her family summered for many years in Edgartown, Mass. and later at Boot Pond in Plymouth, Mass., where they moved after Mr. Wadsworth’s retirement.
She was currently living at Edgewood Retirement Community in North Andover, Mass. A memorial service will be held in the Brewster Chapel at First Parish Unitarian Church Town Square Plymouth, Mass. on Saturday July 23 at 2:00 PM. Burial services at Mayflower Cemetery, Duxbury, Mass. PRIVATE. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Mass Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, The Charlotte Fund, or The Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Mass.