Edith (Winterich) Feole died at the age of 103 on May 31,2011 at Sunny View Nursing Home in Warwick. She was born in Providence on August 6,1907, the daughter of the late Bessie and John Winterich. Edith was the wife of the late Raymond Feole, and is survived by her daughter Lydia and a cousin, Elizabeth Drew of Cranston.
Edith graduated from Boston University in 1930 with a degree in Religious Music and Drama. Six weeks later, she substituted as a medical social worker at Rhode Island Hospital and stayed there for the next 40 years, working with cancer patients. Edith was a longtime member of Mathewson Street UnitedMethodist Church and belonged to United Methodist Women. She was an active member of the League of Women Voters.
Edith had many interests including travel, friendships, music, and caring for animals. Her friend, and longtime parishioner, Theil Ramsbey recounts how Edith “went along on the 1973 MSC trip to the Southwest when we slept in church basements, cooked our own food, and traveled in four green automobiles on the Navajo Reservation to help set up an outdoor worship center, in Albuquerque to paint walls at a school for Mexican American girls, among other experiences.
She was of sound mind and participated in life with zeal right up to the last. Lydia said she was eating supper at 6 p.m. and passed away quietly without suffering [at 7:00 p.m.].”