Wedel, Mildred Mott (1912-1995)

Newton Kansan obituary: 1995 Sep 8

Birth date: 1912 Sep 7

text of obituary:

Mildred Mott Wedel

BOULDER, Colo.—Mildred Mott Wedel, 82, research associate at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., specializing in ethnohistoric research, died Monday (Sept. 4, 1995) in Boulder.

She was born in Marengo, Iowa, on Sept. 7, 1912, to Frank Luther Mott and Vera Ingram Mott. She married Waldo R. Wedel on Aug. 12, 1939, in Iowa City. He survives.

She, along with her husband, received the Distinguished Service Award of the Plains Anthropological Society in 1991. In 1985 she received recognition for her ethnohistorical studies at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting by the Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology and the National Women's Anthropological Caucus. She retired to Boulder in 1991. She was a member of the P. E. O. and the Eistophos Club in Washington, D. C.

Other survivors include two sons, Waldo M. Wedel of Boulder and Frank P. Wedel of Gaithersburg, Md.; one daughter, Linda Greene of Death Valley, Calif.; and three grandchildren.

A memorial service will be at 10 a. m. Saturday at the Frasier Meadows Manor Chapel in Boulder.

Memorials may be sent to the Archeological Conservancy Lamb Spring Fund, 5301 Central Ave. N. E., Albuquerque, N. M. 87108-1517.

Howe Mortuary in Boulder is in charge of the arrangements.