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Obituary:Harriet Boardman Webster |
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Harriet Boardman Webster
April 19, 1906 - Sept. 9, 2008 Harriet Boardman Webster of San Mateo died September 9 at Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame after a brief respiratory illness. She was 102 years old. Harriet Lois Boardman was born to Harry Lincoln and Alice Dorris Boardman in Oakland on April 19, 1906, the day after the Great Earthquake in San Francisco. Her four older sisters called her their "Earthquake Baby". During her growing up years, she lived in Yakima and Walla Walla, Washington before moving to Riverside, California with her family at the age of 10 years. Her father was a Baptist minister and later a college professor. Harriet attended grammar school and high school in Riverside, and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Philosophy in 1928. After her marriage to Paul Kimball Webster, Harriet lived in Glendale, California, with her husband and their three children before moving to San Mateo in 1939. When Paul Webster took a leave of absence as a senior partner with Haskins & Sells (now Deloitte & Touche) to work in the Eisenhower Administration as the Assistant Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, they lived in Washington, D.C. from 1954 to 1956. Paul Webster passed away in 1957. After her husband's death, Harriet spent several years at the Northfield School for Girls in Massachusetts where the headmaster was a family friend. She returned to San Mateo in 1960, and in 1973 she build a wonderful home at Sea Ranch where she lived for 30 years. In 2002 she returned again to San Mateo to be near her family. Through the years Harriet was active in the American Association of University Women, The Volunteer Bureau of San Mateo County, P.E.O., the Children's Home Society Auxiliary and the Congregational Church of San Mateo. She is survived by her children, Judith W. Barton, Joyce W. Hetts, and Steven K. Webster and by five grandchildren and three great grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. In accordance with her request, there will be no memorial service. Contributions in her memory may be made to the Congregational Church of San Mateo, 225 Tilton Ave., San Mateo, CA 94401, to the Parkinson's Institute, 675 Almanor Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085, or to the charity of your choice.
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