Rose MacMurray

Rose Chatfield-Taylor MacMurray was born in 1921 in Chicago. She attended Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut, a boarding school for girls, and in 1939 she attended Bennington College for one year, after which she married Frank Goodnow MacMurray. They lived in McLean, VA, where they raised three children. In her later years, she taught a much-loved poetry course in the Fairfax County school system, where she was known as “The Poetry Lady”. She passed away in 1997.