Elizabeth Clay Mein Taylor ’44, of Chevy Chase, Md.

Elizabeth Clay Mein Taylor ’44, of Chevy Chase, Md.; Oct. 4. She served in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, and in 1946 she married John Gordon Mein, a U.S. Foreign Service officer who later was U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala and assassinated in 1968. They lived in Italy, Norway, Indonesia, Brazil, the Philippines, and Guatemala. After John’s assassination, she returned to Maryland to raise their children. She was active in her local church and enjoyed singing in the choir. She served as president of the Women’s Missionary Society and started a group dedicated to working with patients from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. She enjoyed traveling with Global Volunteers and Church World Service up to the age of 89. She also enjoyed exercising with water aerobics, growing bonsai trees, and collecting praying hands from all over the world. She is survived by a daughter; two sons, including Eric ’79; two daughters-in-law; a son-in-law; eight grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.