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Elizabeth Mayhew Cole, 92
Librarian helped create Paine Hollow Historic District
Elizabeth Mayhew Cole, 92, of Provincetown, formerly of Wellfleet, died Oct. 1 at the Cape End Manor.
Ms. Cole was born in Newton on Dec. 29, 1913. She graduated from Hood College, Frederick, Md., in 1934, and then earned a BS in library science from Drexel University in 1935.
She spent the next 30 years in the Washington, D.C. area working in various libraries, retiring in 1970 as chief of the technology and science division of the Public Library of the District of Columbia. She also worked as librarian at the Highway Research Board of the National Research Council and retired again in 1975 to live in her great-great-grandparents’ home in Wellfleet.
She worked with the Wellfleet Historical Commission and did the research which created the Paine Hollow Historic District. For 20 years she served as editor of Kinfolk, the newsletter of the Rich Family Association. She was clerk of the Session of the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet for many years. She was librarian for the South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association at the Pond Hill School Community Hall for many summers.
Ms. Cole is survived by her sister, Jane Geisler of Verbank, N.Y.; two nieces, Emma Stamas of Colrain and Carol Schlentner of Lake Minchumina, Alaska; and a nephew, Warren Geisler of Pelham, N.Y.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the First Congregational Church of Wellfleet. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the South Wellfleet Neighborhood Association at P.O. Box 581, South Wellfleet, MA 02663.
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Stephen J. Madden Jr., 70
Martin Harris Slobodkin, 86
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Oct 12th, 2006