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Theresa Blanchard (Weld)

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Birthplace: Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Death: March 12, 1978 (84)
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Alfred Winsor Weld and Theresa Weld
Wife of Charles Barnes Blanchard
Sister of Walter Winsor Weld; Louisa Douglass and Dorothy Grannis

Occupation: Figure skater and figuring skating judge; magazine editor
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About Theresa Weld

Theresa Weld was an American figure skater who competed in the disciplines of single skating and pair skating. Her pairs partner was Nathaniel Niles.

As a singles skater, she won the gold medal at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships six times and competed three times in the Olympics, capturing a bronze medal in 1920. With Niles, she won the national pairs title nine times and also participated in the Olympics three times.

Blanchard was also the long-time volunteer editor of the United States Figure Skating Association's official publication, Skating magazine; first jointly with Niles from the magazine's founding in 1923, and then as sole editor after his death in 1931, until 1963. The magazine was originally published out of her home. Her long competitive career gave her many contacts throughout the skating world. She also served as the first chair of the association's Professionals Committee from 1937 to 1947. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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Theresa Weld's Timeline

1893
August 21, 1893
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1978
March 12, 1978
Age 84
Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, 95 Forest Hills Avenue, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States