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Elizabeth McCreight Hutchison

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Elizabeth Ivy McCreight Hutchison

Elizabeth Ivy McCreight Hutchison (May 26, 1901 – October 1986) was the president of the Teachers College Y. W. C. A.

Early life

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Elizabeth Ivy was born in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 26, 1901, the daughter of James Pleasant Ivy (1864-1939) and Vernettie Oscar Greene (1876-1967). [1]

She graduated from Tempe Teachers' College. [1]

Career

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Elizabeth McCreight Hutchison was in the original faculty staff at the Tolleson Union High School, established in 1927. [1] [2] She was the president of the Teachers College Young Women's Christian Association. [1]

She was a member of the Zetetic Society, a modern flat Earth society. [1]

Personal life

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Elizabeth Ivy married Robert Littleton McCreight and they had one son, Robert Ivy McCreight, a graduate of University of Southern California. They lived at Route No. 3, Phoenix, Arizona. [1] On August 4, 1937, she remarried to rancher Sam M. Hutchison (1898-1982). [2]

She died in October 1986 and is buried at Greenwood/Memory Lawn Mortuary & Cemetery, Phoenix.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Binheim, Max; Elvin, Charles A (1928). Women of the West; a series of biographical sketches of living eminent women in the eleven western states of the United States of America. p. 7. Retrieved 8 August 2017.Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ a b "04 Jul 1937, Sun". Arizona Republic: 17. 1937. Retrieved 5 September 2017.