Funeral set for ex-teacher Elizabeth Perry Upshaw, 91

Services for Elizabeth Chesterman Perry Up-shaw, a former sixth-grade teacher at Vivian Field Elementary School in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch school district, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Wynne Chapel of Highland Park Presbyterian Church.

Mrs. Upshaw died of a stroke Monday at Presbyterian Village North, the retirement home where she lived. She was 91.

She taught for about 15 years at Vivian Field, retiring in 1967, said her daughter Elizabeth Perry Mouritsen of Dallas.

"She enjoyed having children learn and watching them blossom into good scholars," Mrs. Mouritsen said.

Mrs. Upshaw was born in Richmond, Va., and received a bachelor of arts degree in English from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Va., in 1923. After graduation, she served on the Randolph-Macon Alumnae Association.

Mrs. Upshaw also served as president of the League of Women Voters of Dallas in 1940-41, and she was a member of the Perennial Garden Club, which she once served as president.

Other survivors include another daughter, Mary Perry Dodson of Houston; two sons, Joseph Bancroft Perry Jr. of Bowling Green, Ohio, and Franklin Howard Perry of Dallas; and 13 grandchildren.