Mrs. Tucker Dies

FUNERAL SERVICES for Mrs. Charlotte Cheever Tucker, widow of Dr. William Jewett Tucker, former president of Dartmouth College, were held in Hanover on Wednesday, April 19. President Hopkins and the Rev. Roy B. Chamberlin conducted the simple ceremony in the White Church. Burial was in the old Dartmouth Cemetery.

Mrs. Tucker died in Brookline, Mass., on April 15 at the age of 86. The second wife of President Tucker, she had lived in Hanover from the time of his inauguration in 1893 until some years after his death in 1926. Although Mrs. Tucker maintained her legal residence in Hanover, she had lived in Brookline and the South for a number of years following the sale of the Tucker home to Halsey C. Edgerton '06, the College treasurer. A prominent figure in Hanover life, Mrs. Tucker devoted herself primarily to church and charitable affairs and was devoted to music.

Born in Jewett City, Conn., she married Dr. Tucker at Worcester, Mass., in 1887 while he was a professor at Andover Theological Seminary. She was a graduate of Smith College in its third class, 1881. From 1883 to 1885 she served as president of the Smith Alumnae Association and from 1893 to 1895 was an Alumnae Trustee. She was a member of the New Hampshire Chapter of Colonial Dames.

Surviving her are a daughter Elizabeth, widow of Prof. Frank W. Cushwa of Phillips Exeter Academy; two step-daughters, Mrs. Alice Dixon, widow of Prof. Frank H. Dixon of Princeton University, and Mrs. Margaret Brown, wife of Justice Nelson P. Brown '99 of the Massachusetts Superior Court; two grandchildren, Mrs. Bayard Clark of Arlington, Va., and Ensign William Tucker Cushwa, USNR; and two sisters, Mrs. Leonard Wheeler of Worcester, Mass., and Miss Louise Cheever of Northampton, Mass.