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 Theodora Bury
September 28, 2001
Theodora "Teddy" Bury, 81, of Cornwall Bridge, Conn., died Friday at home of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. She was the mother of Gail M. Burns of Williamstown.
Born in Boston on March 20, 1920, daughter of Earnest E. and Caroline Phillips Smith, she attended public and private schools in the Boston area, graduating from Beaver Country Day School in 1938.
During World War II, Mrs. Bury did nurse's aide work at Massachusetts General Hospital while she began studying early childhood education at the Abigail Eliot School, now a part of Tufts University. She moved after the war to New York City, where she earned her bachelor's degree in early childhood education from New York University.
She had a lifelong love of dance and movement. She was one of the original scholarship students at the Jacob's Pillow Dance festival, where she studied with Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. She was a student at the New York City Ballet School and also studied with Joseph Pilates and his wife, Clara.
She married Bob Spencer Bury on Oct. 15, 1949, in Manhattan. She and her husband maintained residences in New York and Connecticut until 1982.
She taught preschool at the Union Settlement House in East Harlem, and was director of the nursery school at the Child Studies Center at Yale University in the early 1950s. From 1965-82, she taught kindergarten at The Brearley School in Manhattan.
Following her retirement to Cornwall, she continued working part time in the admissions office at Brearley, volunteered for the Rescue Project in Torrington, Conn., and became the chairwoman of the board of the Cornwall Child Center. She received the Donald T. Warner Community Service Award in 1998 from the Housatonic Youth Service Bureau.
Besides her husband and her daughter, she leaves another daughter, Jennifer L. Bury of San Francisco, and two grandsons.
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