Betty Blanchard Bower, 92, who volunteered with the League of Women Voters in the 1950s and ’60s, died July 19 at a hospital in Danbury, Conn.
She had congestive heart failure related to pneumonia, said her son, Stephen Bower.
Betty Blanchard Bower, volunteer
Betty Cutler Blanchard was born in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. She was a 1941 journalism graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. During World War II, she worked for CBS as a news writer in New York.
A longtime Georgetown resident, she settled in Washington in 1950 and began volunteering with the League of Women Voters, including as vice president of the District chapter. She chaired fundraising events for the group during the 1968 election year.
Mrs. Bower moved to Connecticut in 2002.
Her marriages to Robert T. Bower and Jonas M. Platt ended in divorce.
Survivors include a son from her first marriage, Stephen Bower of Ridgefield, Conn.; a brother; and two grandchildren.
— Emily Langer
