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Elisabeth Collinson Booth of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, formerly of Haddonfield, New Jersey, died on Friday, October 3, 2008, at the age of 87. Born in Roxborough, Pennsylvania to Elizabeth and Joseph Collinson, Elisabeth graduated from Roxborough High School and the University of Pennsylvania (Ilman Carter School of Education) where she was a member of the Tri-Delta Sorority. She taught in primary schools in Philadelphia until she married Robert E. Booth, M.D. and moved to Haddonfield, where they lived for over fifty years. Elisabeth was active as a member of the Women’s Committee of the College of Physicians, where she initiated the docent program for the Mutter Museum in 1976. She was also a guide at the Eastern State Penitentiary, a Fairmount Park House guide for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and one of the seminal lecturers for the Museum’s Art Talk series. She was three times a member of the Loan Exhibit Committee for the Philadelphia Antiques Show. Elisabeth was a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, Tavistock Country Club, and the Severance Lodge Club in Maine, where she summered with her family. She was a past member of the Haddonfield Presbyterian Church and is a present member of the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church. Elisabeth is survived by her husband of 64 years, Robert E. Booth, M.D., formerly the Chief of Radiology at Underwood Hospital in Woodbury, New Jersey and Elmer Community Hospital in Elmer, New Jersey for 42 years – as well as three children, Robert E. Booth Jr., M.D. (Katharine) of Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, Leslie Booth Faust (Stephen) of Annapolis, Maryland, and Alison Booth Halloran (Thomas) of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania; as well as 10 grandchildren: Courtney, Robert III, and Thomas Booth; Whitney, Lauren and Hilary Faust; and Booth, Reid, Gardner, and Dillon Halloran. A Memorial Reception will be held at the Manor House at Waverly Heights, 1400 Waverly Road, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, at twelve-thirty p.m. on Saturday, October 11, 2008. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in Elisabeth’s memory to the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians or to the Fairmount Park House Guides of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Elisabeth Collinson Booth

May 15, 1921 - October 3, 2008