Barbara "Bebe" Stetson

 United States

  • Date Of Birth: September 5, 1920
  • Date Of Death: October 1, 2019
  • State: Connecticut

Barbara Brown “Bebe” Stetson, Sr., beloved wife, mother and friend, died on Tuesday in Fairfield, CT. It was the 77th anniversary of her wedding to Charles Pate Stetson, her husband of 60 years, who predeceased her in 2002. She was 99 years old. Bebe Stetson was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to New York City in 1926, where she graduated from The Brearley School in New York. In high school, Mrs. Stetson won the Higgins Cup for best athlete in the school three years in a row, a record that stands to this day. In 1938, she won the Drew Cup, the Club Championship for Ladies Singles tennis on grass at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton. She married Charles P. Stetson Sr.

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