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“The Peculiar Gift of Woman - - - “
MRS. HENRY REDMOND: AN APPRECIATION
Ida Durand grew to maturity in the
city of Philadelphia. After her graduation from college, she engaged in the
profession of teaching. It was in Philadelphia, while Dr. Henry Redmond was
a medical student, that they met and formed the attachment that resulted in
a happy marriage.
Mrs. Redmond was of a rare, cultural
environment; a background of family position and literary tastes for which
there can be no substitute. All of her life she was a student. It was a
privilege to browse in the Redmond library, where the doctor and his wife
were surrounded by the best books, and current literature.
Mrs. Redmond held many positions of
honor in Texas, and conspicuous among these was the presidency of the Texas
Federation of Women’s Clubs. To this place she brought the equipment of the
true intellectual, and her administration was one of thoroughness in
attacking the problems that confronted it.
During the present writer’s regime,
as president of the Federation, Mrs. Redmond served as the chairman of the
State Committee on Education. When Mrs. John Sherman, then General
Federation president, assembled the reports of the education chairmen of the
various states, she pronounced Mrs. Redmond’s report as being the best
presented.
Mrs. Redmond lived in England for
several years while Dr. Redmond pursued his professional studies in London.
In later years she travelled with the family in many countries of Europe.
She dispense true hospitality. She
loved her home and her children, as those who have witnessed the mutual
devotion of mother and daughter will attest.
She was a sincere friend. But best
of all, her life was founded on Christian principles. She was a rock-ribbed
Presbyterian and, for a lifetime, held membership in the Southern
Presbyterian Church of Corpus Christi.
Death found her at her post of duty,
where she was serving as president of the Past Presidents’ council of the
Federation.
We can ill afford to lose her, but
we mourn her as: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord . . . and their
works do follow them.”
MRS. LEE JOSEPH,
Life Member, Past President, TFWC
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