Elizabeth Roby Manners ’46

Elizabeth Roby Manners ’46, of Clinton, Conn.; Oct. 22. She taught kindergarten and elementary school art in Meriden, Conn. At the end of World War II, she traveled to Paris to take care of children orphaned by the war. She married in 1949 and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where she and her husband founded Countryside Community Church. They moved back to Connecticut in 1959. She enjoyed being both a mother and a pastor’s wife and later taught at the Mandana Armstrong Nursery School, eventually becoming its director. She moved to Clinton in 1985 and was active in the First Congregational Church of Westbrook. She and her husband founded a nonprofit called The American Friends of the Asian Rural Institute to support mission work. She enjoyed camping, boating, sketching, painting, traveling, and volunteering. She is survived by four children, five grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.