Beth Kaplan (Age 69)

Beth. Kaplan died from lung and brain cancer at her home in Annandale, Virginia on July 23, 2012.  She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Sherwin S. Kaplan.  Born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on January 2, 1943, and raised primarily in Grand Forks, North Dakota, she received her BA and Master’s degrees from the University of Chicago and a PhD in French literature from the University of Indiana.  She taught French for several years at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana.   In 1974, she and her husband, Sherwin, relocated to Northern Virginia and Elizabeth taught French at Yeshiva High School in Bethesda and was later chief copy editor for the CATO Institute in Washington, DC until illness forced her retirement.  In addition to her teaching and editing experience, she was an avid photographer and longtime member of the Northern Virginia Photographic Society.  There will be a Memorial Service at 10:00 am on August 2nd at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 6800 Columbia Pike in Annandale.  Her remains will be interred with her parents, Robert A. and Mary Ellen Caldwell, in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

All our thoughts and prayers go out to Sherwin Kaplan