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- Susan Howze Haskell was born in 1910 in Birmingham, Alabama. She attended Columbia Institute in Columbia Tennessee, the National Cathedral School in Washington, Sweet Briar College, and the School of Journalism at the University of Georgia In 1934 she married Theron Rice Harrell. In addition to raising two children, she took active roles in social clubs and civic organizations.
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Family records and notes courtesy of Preston Hampton Haskell III
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Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA)
July 22, 1996
Susan Haskell Harrell, who served on the boards of several civic organizations and once was a weekly columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, died Sunday in a local hospital. She was 86 and lived in Goochland.
Mrs. Harrell was a former member of the boards of The Museum of the Confederacy and The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, which she served as chairman of the Marshall House Committee.
In the late 1940s and 1950s, she wrote a weekly column, "Country Living," for the Sunday Times-Dispatch, said her son, Henry Howze Harrell of Goochland. During World War II, she managed Haskell Chemical Co. for two years. Mrs. Harrell was a native of Birmingham, Ala. She attended Sweet Briar College and graduated from the University of Georgia with a degree in journalism.
Mrs. Harrell was the widow of Theron Rice Harrell. In addition to her son, she is survived by a daughter, Anne Harrell Bristow of Richmond.
Mrs. Harrell was a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church.
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