| Name |
Valerie "Val" Hathaway |
| Nickname |
Val |
| Born |
14 Sep 1920 |
London, Middlesex, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Name |
Valerie Johnstone |
| Name Change From |
Between 1921 and 1930 |
| Valerie Johnstone |
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| Birth Registration |
Between 1 Jan 1921 and 31 Mar 1921 |
Marylebone Registration District, Middlesex, England |
| Vol. 1a, p. 841 |
- Valerie Johnstone, mother maiden name Mackay, was born.
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From Birth Certificate #19
Valerie, daughter of Sybul Grace Stewart Johnstone, formerly MacKay, of 10 Oxford Terace, Paddington, was born Fourteenth September 1920 at 10 Northumberland Street,
Informant: Sybil Johnstone, Mother, of The Hut, Thames Ditton, Surrey.
Registered : Twenty-first January 1921 by A J Read, Registrar; Hugh Stokes, Superintendent.
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Valerie Hathaway (nee Johnstone Birth Certificate
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| Immigration |
22 May 1921 |
New York City, New York County, New York |
- Ancestry.com. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957
Name Valerie Johnstone
Gender Female
Ethnicity/ Nationality English
Marital Status Single
Age 7/12
Birth Date abt 1920
Birth Place England
Other Birth Place London
Last Known Residence London, England
Departure Port Southampton
Arrival Date 22 May 1921
Arrival Port New York, New York, USA
Residence Place England
Final Destination N. Y. C., New York
Years in US Permanently
Citizenship Intention Yes
Person in US Anglo
Ship Name Aquitania
Johnstone, Valerie, age 7 months, Female Single, Infant, English, Last address London, By National Adoption Society, London, Final destination, New York City, to Anglo-American Adoption Society, NYC, born London.
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| 1930 Census |
23 May 1930 |
Harrison, Westchester County, New York |
- ED 162, sheet 12A
Hill Top Place
Hathaway, Stewart Head M W 47 Md 29 NJ NY WI Banker - Bank
---, Helen V Wife F W 41 Md 22 NE MA IL
---, Valerie Ad. Dau F W 9 S England NJ NE 1921
... several servants
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| Died |
28 Dec 2013 |
Westwood, Norfolk County, Massachusetts |
| Obituary |
3 Jan 2014 |
Lincoln, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
| Lincoln Journal |
- Valerie Tew Obituary
Valerie Hathaway Tew, of Fox Hill Village, passed away peacefully on December 28, 2013, at age 93.
Val led an active life, driven by curiosity and a sense of adventure that included summer cruises on the New England coast with her family and several trips to Europe with her husband and friends.
Born on September 14, 1920, she grew up in Rye, New York, the daughter of Helen and Stewart Hathaway.
She attended Miss Halls School in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and graduated from Vassar College in 1942.
She married Lt. John B. Tew a month later in Vero Beach, Florida, where they had met.
Following Johns service in World War II, the couple settled in Lincoln, Massachusetts, where they raised their five children. John worked as a portfolio manager at Scudder, Stevens & Clark in Boston, ultimately becoming a partner in the firm. The family enjoyed skiing with friends at Cannon Mountain in New Hampshire, spring visits to Vero Beach, Florida, and summers in Osterville, Massachusetts.
As their children grew, married, and had their own children, generations would return for weeks together in Osterville. Val and John enjoyed playing golf together and were mixed pair champions at both the Wianno Club in Osterville and the Concord Country Club in Concord, Massachusetts.
Val took particular pride in growing flowers and creating flower arrangements for St. Annes-in-the-Field Church in Lincoln and for Bostons Museum of Fine Arts, of which she was a member. Just as she loved to grow her own, she was an inveterate roadside wildflower picker, sometime cottage rose pruner/thief and rescuer of bulldozed day lilies.
In 1976, after his retirement, John and Val built a retirement home in Osterville. On a sailing trip in 1982 John had a stroke, and Val devoted herself to his care with love and humor until his death twelve years later. Val remained in Osterville, where she enjoyed visits from her children and grandchildren.
Keeping up with local issues and being a devoted reader of books and newspapers, she was a consummate conversationalist and avid correspondent. To relax and reflect, she loved to take her morning coffee and the newspaper to Dowses Beach overlooking Nantucket Sound, where she and John had spent so much time together.
Val started living part-time at Fox Hill Village, a retirement community in Westwood, Massachusetts, in 2002, splitting her time between Westwood and Osterville. Val's interest in new places never waned. At age 80 she joined her four former Vassar roommates on a trip to southern France, where they spent two weeks in a villa, enjoying day trips with Val as the designated driver. At age 87, she and some of her children drove around northern California, seeing the vineyards, redwoods and coastline, and flying silently past Mount Shasta in her first hot air balloon ride.
Val is survived by her five children: James Tew (Junie), Hathaway Brewster (Galen), David Tew (Margaret), John Tew, and Laurie Tew (Judy Bernstein), ten grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
The family would like to express its deepest thanks to the staff at Clark House Nursing Center at Fox Hill Village for their loving care in Vals final days. A memorial service will be held in the summer at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Osterville. Donations in Valerie Tews memory may be sent to St. Peters Episcopal Church, 421 Wianno Ave., Osterville, MA 02655.
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| Person ID |
I95266 |
New England Hall Families Master Tree |
| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Family |
John Bechtel Tew, b. 19 Apr 1916, Akron, Summit County, Ohio , d. 18 May 1994, Indian River County, Florida (Age 78 years) |
| Married |
25 Jul 1942 |
Rye, Westchester County, New York |
| Marriage Announcement |
26 Jul 1942 |
New York, New York County, New York |
| Daily News |
- Society by Nancy Randolph
One of the most fashionable wedding yesterday was that of pretty Valerie Hathaway and John Bechtel Tew. The ceremonty took place in Christ's Church in Rye, where the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Southworth Hathaway, make their home.
Val wore a crisp white taffeta gown, with lace bodice and lace sleeves, and a frothy tulle veil.
Anne Munger, her maid of honor, and the bridesmaids, Hope Talcott, Joan Morgan, Margaret Lukens and Genevieve Hart, wore identical frocks of pale green net, with wreates of flowers in their hair.
His Dad Best Man at Hathaway-Tew Wedding
J. DInsmore Tew was best man for his son. Everett A. Black, Franklin Smith, John W. Horner Jr., Wells Morss, Robert W. Scott and Livingston Carroll were ushers.
Following the ceremony, there was a reception at the Rye home of the bride's parents.
The bride attended Miss Hewitt's classes and Miss Hall's School. She went on to Vassar after her debut and was graduated last moth. She is a member of the Junior League.
Val is a niece of the Dame of Sarak (Mrs. Sybil Hathaway). hereditary rule of the Island of Sark in the English Channel. The island has been taken over by the Germans. Her husband, Robert W. Hathaway, whose title is Seigneur of Sark, is a brother of Val's father.
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| Children |
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| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2023 |
| Family ID |
F36901 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1920 - 2013 (93 years)
