Eleanor Hale Sanburn

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Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA) - November 17, 2005
Deceased Name: Eleanor H. Phinney
84 Oil, watercolor artist; avid traveler; tennis player

YARMOUTHPORT - Eleanor H. (Sanburn) Phinney, 84, of Yarmouthport and Randolph, N.H., died Monday on Cape Cod.

She was the wife of Frederick W. Phinney for 58 years.

Mrs. Phinney was born in Springfield and attended the MacDuffie School in Springfield, Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y., and Wellesley College. She also did post-graduate studies at the Harvard School of Design, Cambridge.

She was accomplished in oil painting and watercolor sketches.

During World War II she worked at the Radiation Laboratory at MIT. After the war she married and raised a family.

She summered in Randolph and wintered in Yarmouthport. She was a previous resident of Waterbury, Conn., Brookline, Beverly, Lake Forest, Ill., East Africa and Rome, Italy.

An avid traveler, she visited Africa, Asia, the Middle East, England and Europe with her husband. She was also an accomplished tennis player since childhood.

She loved the mountains, the sea and nature, and was a supporter of environmental efforts including the Mount Washington Observatory and Randolph Mountain Club.

Besides her husband, survivors include three sons, Benjamin S. of Milton, Frederick W. Jr. of Yarmouthport and John F. of Basking Ridge, N.J.; three daughters, Joanna H. of Washington, D.C., Martha H. of Randolph, N.H., and Harriet M. of Seattle; a brother, Willis H. Sanburn II of Honolulu, Hawaii; 10 grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Woodside Cemetery, Summer Street, Yarmouthport.
additional information courtesy of Randall Jensen #47426837

Eleanor married Rev. Frederick W. Phinney in 1947 in Winchester, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Frederick was born on 15 May 1922 in Lawrence, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA; died on 21 Jan 2014. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]