{"id":3129359,"date":"2016-04-01T01:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/eunice-benedict-merriss\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:02:52","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T05:02:52","slug":"eunice-benedict-merriss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/eunice-benedict-merriss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eunice Benedict Merriss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Merriss<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eunice Benedict Merriss<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, de 102 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 26 de junio de 2015 en Foxdale Village en State College, Pensilvania, su hogar durante 23 a\u00f1os. Eunice naci\u00f3 el 4 de febrero de 1913 en Waterbury, Connecticut, la hija mayor de Edith Mason y Eric Wilson Benedict. Se gradu\u00f3 de Bunker Hill School y Classical High School en Waterbury y recibi\u00f3 un t\u00edtulo en biblioteconom\u00eda de Simmons College. Durante seis a\u00f1os trabaj\u00f3 como bibliotecaria de una escuela secundaria en Meriden, Connecticut, antes de trasladarse a la Biblioteca P\u00fablica de Greenwich en Greenwich, Connecticut.   <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mientras trabajaba en Greenwich, conoci\u00f3 y, en 1952, se cas\u00f3 con William Ellery Merriss, un maestro de ingl\u00e9s y lat\u00edn en Greenwich Country Day School. William era viudo y Eunice se convirti\u00f3 en madre de los hijos peque\u00f1os de William, Richard y Dilys, mientras segu\u00eda trabajando. Una visita que hicieron poco despu\u00e9s de su boda al Meeting de Stamford (Connecticut) por sugerencia de William los convenci\u00f3 de hacerse miembros.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Una vez que los ni\u00f1os crecieron y terminaron la universidad, ella y William visitaron Inglaterra, Escocia, Francia, Portugal y Costa Rica, a menudo para estancias de un mes. Cuando se jubilaron, vivieron en Cape Cod durante diez a\u00f1os, despu\u00e9s de lo cual decidieron mudarse a la comunidad de jubilados de atenci\u00f3n continua cu\u00e1quera Foxdale Village. Aunque William enferm\u00f3 y falleci\u00f3 en 1990, antes de que pudieran mudarse, en 1992 Eunice se mud\u00f3 a Foxdale Village y transfiri\u00f3 su membres\u00eda del Meeting de Stamford al Meeting de State College (Pensilvania). Asisti\u00f3 al Meeting regularmente durante un tiempo, pero el foco de su servicio voluntario fue en Foxdale, como miembro del grupo Rhodes Readers y como secretaria de correspondencia de la Residents\u2019 Association. Eunice siempre fue agradable, pero nunca llam\u00f3 la atenci\u00f3n sobre s\u00ed misma. Su bi\u00f3grafo, Myles Bane, escribi\u00f3: \u201cUna vez se dijo: &#8216;Para ser verdaderamente grande, uno debe estar con la gente, no por encima de ella&#8217;. Eunice encaja con esta descripci\u00f3n\u201d. A Eunice le precedieron en la muerte su esposo, William Ellery Merriss; y su hermano, Douglas Benedict. Le sobreviven dos hijos, Richard Merriss y Dilys Staaterman; siete nietos; y ocho bisnietos.       <\/span><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriss\u2014 Eunice Benedict Merriss , de 102 a\u00f1os, falleci\u00f3 el 26 de junio de 2015 en Foxdale Village en State&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9829],"tags":[20519,20526,20518,13161,20525,20516,20523,20521,20524,20514],"fpb_issue_category":[10625],"class_list":["post-3129359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hitos","tag-aunque-william","tag-cape-cod","tag-douglas-benedict","tag-foxdale-village","tag-myles-bane","tag-residents-association","tag-rhodes-readers","tag-simmons-college","tag-stamford-conn","tag-william-ellery-merriss","fpb_issue_category-nutricion-espiritual-formacion-cuaquera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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