Virginia T. Lesueur

Vriginia T. LeSueur, 81, was an English teacher in the Meadville schools for four years and director of financial aid at Allegheny College from 1967 to 1971.

LeSueur, of Meadville, died Saturday, June 25, 1994, at Meadville Medical Center.

She was born in Wilkinsburg, November 21, 1912, a daughter of Frank W. and Clementine Richey Tucker.  She married J. Hunter LeSueur, June 10, 1939.  He preceded her in death August 6, 1992.

She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church.  She was a 1929 graduate of Academy High School in Erie, 1935 graduate of Florida State University, and received her master's degree in 1968 from Allegheny College.

She was a charter member of the Meadville Beautification Committee, serving from 1966 to 1984, and was largely responsible for the planting of flowering trees along Chestnut Street.  Her suggestion that the bypass route around the city be named French Creek Parkway was adopted officially by the committee.  She was chairman of a group that raised funds to plant trees along the parkway.  She and the late Homer Thornton cooperated in the parkway trees project that was completed before Meadville's bicentennial in 1988.

She was a researcher of Meadville history, researching and recording the history of every building and residence on Chestnut Street and many buildings in other parts of the city.  She was instrumental in obtaining plaques from the Pennsylvania Historical Society to be placed on structures of special interest.  She was chair of the Historical Society from 1975 to 1979.  She was a member of the Woman's Literary Club.  For several years, she was a docent at the Baldwin-Reynolds House.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Ernest (Jill) York of Bowie, MD; a son, John H. (Jack) LeSueur, Jr. of Durham, NC and two grandchildren.

Services were held a Waid Funeral Home.

Interment was in Greendale Cemetery.