- Date Of Birth: September 19, 1939
- Date Of Death: February 11, 2013
- State: Indiana
Susan C. Edgerton, age 73, died on Monday, February 11, 2013, at Hospice House in Bloomington. She spent her final days and hours with her three children, Elizabeth DiPasquale, Mary Margaret Bradshaw, and Eric Bradshaw, her brother David C. Edgerton, and sister-in-law Winnie Vaughan Edgerton.
She is also survived by five grandchildren, Maxine, Nicole, and Alexandria DiPasquale, and Duke and Jada Bradshaw; and two nieces, Jessica and Hannah Edgerton. She was preceded in death by her parents, William B. Edgerton and Jewell C. Edgerton.
Additionally, Susan is survived by the City of Bloomington, a living, breathing character that played an important role in the last 40+ years of her life. The people of Bloomington are the warmest, kindest people Susan ever had the pleasure to know. Later in life, she developed tremors that slowed her abilities for everyday activities. If she seemed out of sorts, disheveled, or just feeble, she brought out the best in those she encountered. Even young and nimble strangers smiled and welcomed her, waited as long as Susan took to transact her business, and spoke to her with affection.
Susan’s family will forever be grateful to the people of this city. Susan was born September 19, 1939, in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was a “professor’s kid,” and grew up in college towns and communities. She lived the first seven years of her life in a little house on the campus of Guilford College, in Greensboro. Then there were two years in a New York suburb, while her father finished his PhD at Colombia; then State College, Pennsylvania, during her pre-teen and early teenage years; then a year in Ann Arbor, Michigan; then a few years back at Colombia, on the upper West Side of Manhattan.
Susan graduated from high school at Westtown School, a Quaker preparatory school in Westchester County, Pennsylvania. She earned a BA in history at Indiana University, where she joined Delta Delta Delta sorority and served in student government. She then married, had three children, and moved to Rochester, New York, where she earned an MA in Education from SUNY College at Brockport. She returned to Indiana in 1972. In more recent years she acted in community theater and served as an election judge.
