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- from "Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007" (ancestry.com)
Catherine Gilbert Dunham was born 11 May 1898 in Worcester, Worcester, MA to Augustus F Gilbert & Lenore Dodge. Death date 13 Feb 1999.
- Catherine Gilbert Dunham died Saturday at the Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, New Brunswick. She was 100. She was born in Worcester, Mass., and lived in Highland Park since 1918. She graduated in 1918 with a teaching degree from The Worcester Normal School. She taught kindergarten in Highland Park until her marriage in 1923. She was an active member at Christ Church in New Brunswick. She had been an active member of the Christ Church Junior Guild for many years. She was also a member of the Christ Church Home for Girls in Helmetta. She had served as the Girl Scout commissioner for the Raritan Valley Girl Scout Council for five years. She was a member of the New Jersey Blue Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Society of The Colonial Dames in the State of New Jersey, the Trowel Club of New Brunswick, and the Skytop Club in Skytop, Pa. Her husband, Nelson, died in 1969. He was the grandson of the co-founder of The New Brunswick Savings Institution in 1851. Surviving are a daughter, Janet Deibert of Highland Park; a son, Gilbert Hamilton Dunham of New Canaan, Conn., and two grandchildren. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Christ Church, corner of Neilson and Church streets, New Brunswick. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery, New Brunswick.
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