Bosworth, Julia Sophia

BOSWORTH

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes (email)
Date: 10/6/2010 at 10:01:53

The Grinnell (IA) Herald; April 12, 1935

AN OLD TIMER IN GRINNELL PASSES AWAY

A letter from Walter Bosworth of Eugene, Oregon, containing a clipping from the Tacoma Ledger tells of the death of his sister, Julia S. Bosworth, who died at Seattle, March 29. Miss Bosworth was a Grinnell young woman and in the early days was for a long period the pipe organist at the Congregational church. She with her brothers, Walter and George, went to Tacoma in 1888 and until 1920 her home was at Tacoma. After that time it was in Seattle. Her brother, Walter, who has taken the Herald ever since he went to Tacoma in 1888 sends us the following clipping from the Tacoma Ledger:

Interment of the ashes of Miss Julia Sophia Bosworth will be held privately Saturday in Mountain View burial park by Walter M. Bosworth and George F. Bosworth, her brothers.

Miss Bosworth died March 29 at her Victory Way home in Seattle, where she had been a resident since 1920, having moved from Tacoma, to which she came with her mother and brothers in 1888. Her passing was at the same hour and on the same day as that of her mother, who died in 1905. She is survived by three brothers, Harvey E., resident in Los Angeles, and Walter, coming north from College Crest, Eugene, where he and his wife are spending a year, and George F. Bosworth. Four nephews and four nieces also survive.

Miss Bosworth was a graduate of Grinnell college and of the New England Conservatory of Music. Her studio, maintained for many years in Tacoma, was for the teaching of both piano and pipe organ. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church, Mary Ball Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and of the Ladies' Musical club.