1903-1993; Grand Forks, North Dakota, active club woman, Grand Forks Park Board and UND Alumni Association Board member

Witmer, Lillian (1903-1993)

"Lillian I. Witmer, 90, 739 S. 30th St., died Monday, Sept. 13, 1993, in Deaconess Health Center, Northwood, N.D.

Lillian I. Leith was born Jan. 16, 1903, in Grand Forks, the daughter of Dr. John D. and Isabella (Whitson) Leith.  She graduated from Larimore (N.D.) High School and in 1923 from UND.  She was assistant registrar of the University until 1930.  She married Robert B. Witmer in 1927.  He died Feb. 24, 1972.  She was active in a number of university, community, and national organizations.  She was a member of the UND Alumni Association board.  She also was district governor of Alpha Phi International Fraternity and later its treasurer.  She was on the public library board and secretary of the Grand Forks County Historical Society, of which she was a charter member.  For more than 50 years, she was a member of the Franklin Club, Chapter D of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the North Dakota Dames Club. the Alpha Phi Alumni Chapter and the UND Faculty Wives and Women's Club, serving as president of each.

Survivors are her daughter, Jean (Mrs. Charles W.) Meline, Macomb, Ill., two grandsons; and two great-granddaughters.

She was preceded in death by a brother, J. Douglas."

Source: Grand Forks Herald, September 19, 1993, p. 2B.

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