E. Hoadley Cash, a lifelong Montessori educator with teaching experience around the world, passed away on October 16, 2022, at age 100.
Hoadley Cash was born in Houston, TX, on May 8, 1922. She moved to New York City as a toddler and spent her childhood and adolescence there. Later, in 1942, she graduated from New York University with a degree in chemistry and a plan to become a medical doctor.
A year later, she married Hugh P. Cash who shortly thereafter left for the war. Hoadley began working for the New York Herald Tribune as a copyeditor and the Sperry Gyroscope Firm.
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