Janée Munroe Obituary (1923

WYNNEWOOD, PA - Janee Munroe, a resident of Wynnewood, Pa., died Sept. 10 in Warren, Maine. She was 83.Mrs. Munroe was born June 22, 1923 in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from Grant High School in Portland, Oregon, where she was first violist in the youth orchestra. She was associated with the world-renowned Budapest Quartet and studied with violist Boris Kroyt.She received a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia to study with William Primrose. She graduated from Curtis in 1945, then joined the USO, playing for the troops with an all-women orchestra during World War II. Mrs. Munroe also received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.She married Lorne Munroe in Paris in 1945. Her husband went on to become the principal cellist with the Minneapolis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and New York Philharmonic. Mrs. Munroe played viola with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, then with the National Symphony in Washington.Mr. and Mrs. Munroe settled in the Philadelphia area where Mrs. Munroe taught violin, piano and viola privately. One of her students went on to win the youth award entitling the student to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mrs. Munroe joined her husband in a piano quartet, the Gofriller Piano Quartet. She was on the faculty of the Juilliard School precollege program in which she taught viola. She toured with the New York Philharmonic as a substitute violist.Mrs. Munroe was an avid animal rights advocate.She was survived by her husband of over 60 years, Lorne Munroe; one daughter, Karen L. Munroe of Little Marsh, PA; ten sons, Lorne R. Munroe of Malvern, PA, Jan R. Munroe and his wife Cheryl of Wayne, PA, Scott D. Munroe of Bethel, CT, Robin E. Munroe and his wife Kathy of Allentown, PA, Dwight K. Munroe and his wife Jean of West Chester, PA, Christopher D. Munroe of Pennwynne, PA; Randal G. Munroe and his wife Priscilla Anne of West Chester, PA; Jeffrey K. Munroe and his wife Sharon of Nokesville, VA, Mark J. Munroe of Parker Ford, PA, David C. Munroe and his wife Mary of Narberth, PA; one brother James Gilbert and his wife Donna of Portland, Oregon; 21 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews.Funeral services will be private.Memorial donations may be made to PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) at www.peta.org., 501 Front Street, Norfolk, VA 23510 or ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) at ASPCA Tributes, 110 Fifth Avenue, 2nd floor, New York, NY 10011 or at www.aspca.org.Arrangements are in the care of Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland, Maine.Please take a moment to visit JanA(c)e's Personal Online Guest Book.2b