After a wonderful life filled with writing, teaching, travel, and friends, Elizabeth McMenamin passed away surrounded by family on October 26, 2018 in Ocean Grove, New Jersey.Elizabeth was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1917 and baptized at the Cathedral of St. Peter. She was a lifelong communicant of the Roman Catholic Church. She studied piano at the Scranton Conservatory, painting at Marywood College, graduated from Scranton Central High School in 1934 and from Barnard College in 1938, with a B.A. in English literature.Elizabeth returned to Central High as an English teacher, but her true gift was writing. She wrote music reviews for the Scranton Tribune, commentary for The Catholic Light, the screenplay for Solitude, a feature film produced by the Diocese of Scranton, and radio plays for WGBI. After taking time off to start a family, Elizabeth wrote occasionally for the Asbury Park Press, the East Coast Angler and the Jackson News, which published her accounts of travels in France, Italy and Spain, and her 1984 tour of China as a guest of the Chinese government. Elizabeth cherished the memories of her days at Barnard College. She attended her seventy fifth class reunion in 2013, contributed her short story Dust to Barnard's literary magazine, Echoes, in 2016, represented her class at convocation in 2016 and 2017 and attended the inauguration of Barnard's president in 2018. She was a member of MENSA, who liked to recite the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English—just for fun. She enjoyed reading, writing, and praying, but she loved her family—especially her grandchildren—most of all. Elizabeth was predeceased by her husband, Hugh A. McMenamin. She is survived by her six children, Stephen, Brigid, Margaret, Catherine, Peter, and Anna Regina; her four grandchildren, Leith, Hugo, Robert, and Amy Jean; and her two great-grandchildren, Summer Moon and Ember Star; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Elizabeth's friends are invited to celebrate her life at two viewings. The first will be on Thursday, November 1, from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Ocean Grove Memorial Home, 118 Main Avenue, Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The second viewing will take place from 5:00 PM to 7:00M PM on Friday, November 2, at Eugene A.Cusick Funeral Home,217 Jefferson Avenue, Scranton, Pennsylvania. On Saturday, November 3, there will be a 9:00 AM funeral mass at the Cathedral of St. Peter,315 Wyoming Avenue, followed by burial at Cathedral Cemetery,1708 Oram Street.