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moving her offices across the street in 1978.
Ms. Day’s passion for life encompassed her work and family, home and gardens, where she took much solace.
Over the years she transformed the grounds of Padua, her working farm, into a profusion of color and a source of sustenance, and like nature itself, her life was forever renewing itself.
Whether riding in the hunt, surf fishing at Ocracoke, or expressing life’s complexity through her photography and watercoloTs, she opened herself to possibility.
Undeterred by a diagnosis of cancer in 2001, she traveled to Tuscany, Italy last summer, attended her daughter Johanna’s stage performances on Broadway, and in theatres in Washington D.C., and Chicago, planted and harvested two bountiful gardens and made three trips to the home she designed and built on North Carolina’s Ocracoke Island.
Born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1925, she was the only child of Evelyn Davies Mitchell and Robert Mitchell. Following her father’s death when she was five, she moved with her mother to Washington, D.C.
She graduated from Washington’s Woodrow Wilson High School in 1943 and later attended George Washington University.
In 1946, she married U. S. Naval Academy graduate, Walter Day. His military and working career took them to Fredericksburg, Va., Camp Lejeune, N.C., Key West, Florida, and Tuscon, Ariz.
Returning to Virginia in 1960, they made their way from the outskirts of Washington D.C. to a farm in Fauquier County.
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