obituaries


Boston. “She was a superior competitor, always doing better than expected when the chips were down.” Another The


Joan Tozzer TOZZER CAVE Olympian and U.S. Figure


Skating Hall of Fame member Joan Tozzer Cave passed away April 15, 2012, in Massachusetts. She was 90 years old. Tozzer Cave was a three-time


U.S. singles champion and three- time pairs champion with Bernard Fox from 1938–1940. She and Fox were North American pairs champions in 1939. Tozzer Cave was named to the 1940 Olympic team, but those Games were cancelled due to World War II. She was known for the quality


of her compulsory figures and it was her dominance of them that enabled her to win her three senior ladies titles. Born in Boston in 1921,


Tozzer Cave was the second-oldest member of The Skating Club of Boston. She was inducted into the U. S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997 and was an active elector. Tozzer Cave was a role model


for those who followed her as champions from The Skating Club of Boston, such as Gretchen Merrill, Tenley Albright, Laurence Owen and Lorranie Hanlon. “She had a very positive


and upbeat personality and was admired and loved by all of us who were privileged to be on the ice with her,” said Ben Wright, longtime member of The Skating Club of


Skating Club of Boston longtime member, Sally Zeghibe, said Tozzer Cave had the “greatest sense of humor." Tozzer Cave


was involved in many philanthropic activities in Massachusetts,


Hawaii and New Hampshire. She was a trustee of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, serving as co-chair of the development committee, and a member of the hospital’s Heritage Society. She is survived by six children,


Philip Spalding III of Honolulu; A. Tozzer Spalding of Tucson, Ariz.; Anne Mock and Joan Spalding both of Longboat Key, Fla.; Susan Driscoll of North Oaks, Minn., and William Lincoln of Newburyport, Mass. She is survived by 14 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. Contributions may be made to


Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 116 Huntington Ave., Boston, 02116, or the Tamworth Foundation, P.O. Box 128, Tamworth, N.H., 03886.


SCHULTZ Eleanor Gabriel “Elly” Schultz,


former president of the North Holly- wood and Los Angeles Figure Skat- ing Clubs and a leader within U.S. Figure Skating, died May 3, 2012. She was 98. She was deeply involved in


figure skating as a test and competi- tion judge, amateur show organizer and team leader for skaters compet- ing internationally. Elly skated into her mid-60s,


judged into her early 80s and trav- elled the world in connection with Olympic, World and other national


and international competitions. The skaters she served and the U.S. and international officials and skating teachers with whom she worked loved and respected Elly for her genuine personal interest in them and her gentle leadership. Many be- came close friends. She was born in Minnesota on


Sept. 26, 1913, the second of seven children of John and Constance Ga- briel, and moved to Beverly Hills, Ca- lif., in 1941. Elly lived a full and com- mitted life, devoted to her husband, Henry Albert (Albie), who passed away in December 1979, and to her daughter, Sally, and her grand- daughter, Stephanie. Her caring and fun-loving pres-


ence will be missed by her friends and surviving family members: her daughter, Sally, married to Robert Neely; her granddaughter, Stepha- nie, married to Max Gladstone; and several nephews and nieces. She was the last of her siblings to pass away.


Donations in her memory may


be made to the World Figure Skat- ing Museum & Hall of Fame, 20 First St., Colorado Springs, CO 80906.


MCLAUTHLIN Bonnie Paterson McL- authlin, 83, passed away at home, surrounded by her family, on May 6, 2012. Bonnie was born in


Champaign, Ill. on Dec. 24, 1928, to Harold C. and Dolly B. (Webb) Paterson. She started skating as a young girl at the University of Illinois Ice Arena. As a teenager she trained at the Broadmoor Ice Arena, in Colorado Springs, for sev- eral summers. She was the 1944 Midwestern junior champion, and passed her gold figures test in 1947. After graduating from


Champaign High School she toured for a season with the Ice Cycles, while pursuing a coaching posi- tion. Eventually, she was hired by The University of Denver Ice Arena, bringing her home to Colorado. Bonnie was a skater, coach and


national judge for more than 70 years. She received her national ap- pointment in 1983, and was team leader for several international com- petitions, including the first Good- will Games in Moscow.. In 1955, she married Denver


physician Carl H. (Bud) McLauth- lin, with whom she raised two children. A beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great aunt, Bon- nie was preceded in death by her husband; her brothers Richard W. and Norman D. Paterson, his first wife Mary and second wife Lois. She is survived by Richard’s wife,


Marietta; her son, Carl Douglas McLauthlin, his wife Phyllis Brock, and son Clark; her daughter, Susan K. McLauthlin; her brothers’ seven children, 21 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Donations may be made to World Vision, www.worldvision.org.


Bonnie Paterson McLauthlin


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