Mrs. Louis [Lois] Rutledge Danner
From the New York Times 1943
Montclair, N,J., Sept. 27— Mrs. Louis [Lois]
Rutledge Danner, long active in welfare work for lepers in association with her
husband William Mason Danner, former general secretary of the American Mission
to Lepers, died Saturday of a heart ailment at her home, 56 South Park St. Mrs.
Danner, who was 80, was first treasurer of the National Y.W.C.A. in 1888.
A descendant of Edward Rutledge, signer of the
Declaration of Independence, Mrs. Danner was born in Oquawka, Ill., and was a
graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College at Mount Pleasant. After her marriage, she
lived for a time at Louisville, Ky., where Mr. Danner was general secretary of
the Y.M.C.A. She had lived here since 1918.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Danner leaves two sons,
Paul Rutledge Danner, who, as manager of the Manila office of the Asia Life
Insurance Company, has been interned with his family since the Japanese attacked
the Philippines; Dr. William Mason Danner Jr., an instructor at Santa Barbara
(Calif.) College, and a daughter, Mrs. Charles A. Stender of Montclair.
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