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Article: Obituaries
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- Winnetka Talk (IL)
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- April 10, 2008
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Janet Moore BurrowsJanet Moore Burrows, 80, a resident of Wilmette for 46 years, died of a stroke March 7 at Evanston Hospital.
Mrs. Burrows was born July 24, 1927, in Washington, D.C., to Janet and Elliott McFarlan Moore. She was the granddaughter of both the late Rear Adm. William Adger Moffett, founder of Naval Aviation, and Elliott Moore, an inventor who worked with Thomas Edison and installed the first light bulb in the Statue of Liberty, according to relatives. She was proud of her distinguished heritage from both her mother's and father's side of the family, relatives said.
When she was 6, her grandfather, Admiral Moffett, was killed accidentally in the Akron dirigible disaster. Within ...