Genevieve Lulu Larmoth

Publication: The East Hampton Press

Genevieve Larmoth

Genevieve Lulu Bond Larmoth died at the Hampton Care Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing on August 23.

She was 100.

Born November 12, 1907, in Fonda, Iowa, she was the daughter of Ada Hawkins and Frederick Hamilton Bond,

a lawyer. She moved with her family to Morningside, Iowa, after her father’s accidental death in 1908.

After graduating from Sioux City High School, she left with her family for Chicago when she was 16 years old,

and later enrolled at the University of Chicago. In August 1929, she married G. Wilford Larmoth and the

following September they became the parents of a baby girl, Jeanine Lenore.

When the couple divorced in 1933, Mrs. Larmoth returned to school—often taking her daughter with her to

classes—earning a bachelor’s degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. Like her mother and older sister, she

became a teacher, first in Lombard, Illinois, and later in Cook County schools, primarily in Flossmoor. Not long

after Mrs. Larmoth retired, she moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, where she spent some of her happiest years.

For most of her adult life, she traveled widely, meeting her daughter several times in Paris.

In 2002, her daughter brought her to Long Island, where she had vacationed many times. She became a

resident at the Westhampton Care Center before transferring to the care center in Southampton.

Mrs. Larmoth was a religious woman who always attended church and prayed daily, as she said, “because I

always have.” When asked about her beliefs, she replied simply, “I have to believe in God.” The family recalled

that one of Mrs. Larmoth’s most shining attributes was her openness to joy. Even in the last years of her life,

though she was crippled by arthritis and almost wholly blinded by diabetes, she responded with pleasure to the

world around her, particularly to music and the outdoors.

Mrs. Larmoth will be cremated and her ashes buried in the family plot in Milton, Wisconsin. Contributions to the

Diabetes Association and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton would be appreciated by the family. A

memorial service will be held at a future date.