Eleu Fraser
After a long battle with Alzheimer's, Eleu Fraser (Eleuthera McCalmont Miller) is again singing with the choir and playing the organ to celebrate the Resurrection. Eleu was born in Franklin, PA to Eleuthera Plumer (McCalmont) Miller and Clarence Augustus Miller. She was the last survivor of four siblings.
Eleu graduated from Wittenberg and then from Yale University with a masters degree in nursing. She was teaching neurosurgical nursing at Duke University when she met Donald Henderson Fraser, who was a law student there. They married in July 1950 in the Duke University Chapel and lived in Donald’s hometown of Walterboro, SC, where he practiced law for 62 years. Eleu is survived by her children, Donald H. Fraser, Jr. (Ansley) and Eleuthera McCalmont (Fraser) Braddock (Robert), her three grandchildren Rebekah Marts, Jonathan Braddock, and Hannah Braddock, and one great granddaughter Madelynn Marts.
Eleu was known to a generation of grammar school students as the volunteer nurse who checked their eyes.
Eleu was a prolific knitter. She could produce an intricate sweater from a pattern in her head while watching a Braves or Cubs game.
Eleu learned to fly the family airplane in 1946, and passed her love of flying on to her son.
Eleu joined Bethel Presbyterian Church when she came to Walterboro. She was a long-time member of the choir and served as organist for a time.
Memorials can be made to Bethel Presbyterian Church in Walterboro.
