Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 12:10 PM
To: Everyone
Subject: Virginia Luttenton
I just received this sad news from Diane.
Take care,
Anna
Sorry to have to send you bad news again, but I just heard this morning
that Virginia "Dickie" Luttenton passed away. She was a beloved judge
in our area for many years and will be missed.
I will send details as soon as I have them.
Diane Murphy
Cleveland Skating Office
24500 Center Ridge Rd. Ste. 225
Westlake, OH 44145
I am afraid I am writing with sad news. My mom passed away yesterday
morning. She had another stroke about a month ago that left her
paralyzed on the right side and she appeared to be deteriorating rapidly. During the last month I don't believe she really suffered or was aware of her circumstances and I am grateful that in the end she went peacefully.
I am making arrangements for a Memorial service in Cleveland at
Brown and Forward Funeral Home for Monday, October 20th. The details
will be in the Cleveland paper on the 18th and 19th.
Although Danielle and I are both very sad, we know that mom's quality of
life had been missing over the last 2 years and that she is in a better
place and at peace now.
Ginni Phillips
Virginia S. "Dickie" Luttenton, 80, retired two years ago as a senior editor with West-Thompson Publishing. She had started working there as an editorial assistant 58 years earlier, when the firm was known as the Banks-Baldwin Law Publishing Co.
Luttenton died Oct. 9 in Mount Pleasant, Mich.
She was born in Cleveland and studied music as a child and was an accomplished pianist for the left hand alone. In 1941, the year she graduated from John Adams High School, she was a finalist in the National Piano Playing Audi tions of the Na tional Guild of Piano Teachers. In 1945, she graduated from Flora Stone Mather College of Western Re serve Univer sity and mar ried Richard "Dick" Luttenton. Two years later, she received a master's degree in history from the university.
The Luttentons lived in Shaker Heights, where they were active in the Cleveland Skating Club, and were members of the United States Figure Skating Association. In addition to helping to coordinate the club's ice shows, Dickie Luttenton judged gold figure, freestyle, dance test, junior singles and pair competitions and senior dance competitions.
She moved to Michigan after her husband died in 1997.
Luttenton is survived by a daughter, Virginia L. Phillips of Mount Pleasant, Mich., and a granddaughter.
Services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the U.S. Figure Skating Association, 20 First St., Colorado Springs, Colo. 80906-3697.