Rosemary Hibbard Turnbull

Turnbull, Rosemary (“Rosie”) (Hibbard) (Pomeroy) (01/09/1941–10/15/1997). At age 16, Rosemary Hibbard from Westtown, Pennsylvania enrolled at Grinnell in 1957 and after one year transferred to Simmons College in Boston and then Ryder University in New Jersey where she received a B.A. in 1962. She also obtained a M.S.L.S. degree in library science from Drexel University in 1971.

Rosemary spent 25 years as a school library director in New Hampshire. She was a longtime member of Delta Gamma International, an honorary society for librarians, the Quakers, the New Hampshire Alliance for the Mentally Ill and PEO.

In 1960 she married Rev. George Robinson Pomeroy, and after their 1988 divorce, she married William Turnbull. In 1997, after a long illness, Rosemary died in her home. She was survived by her husband William, two children (Marion L. Pomeroy and Bradbury S. Pomeroy), two stepchildren and her father.

 

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