Clorinda Mauldin

BOICEVILLE, N.Y. -- Clorinda Blye Mauldin, known to many as "C.B.," was 91 years old when she passed away quietly, on Monday, May 9, 2011, with her daughter, Kerry, and son-in-law, David, at her side in "her cottage" at their home in the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Memorial service: 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 17, at Shannon Rose Hill Chapel, 7301 East Lancaster, Fort Worth. At the end of the service, an announcement will be made regarding the location of a gathering for lunch with the family.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to The Libertarian Party of Texas, 1904 Guadalupe St., Suite B, Austin, Texas 78705 or Hospice, Inc., 34 Broadway, Kingston, N.Y. 12401.

Clorinda was born in Lynn, Mass., to Clorinda Lucile Pool Blye and John Andrew Blye. She moved to her mother's home state of Texas when she was 12 years old where she lived in Fort Worth for most of her life. She attended Pascal High School in Fort Worth. During World War II she worked in the San Francisco shipyards wiring radar into aircraft carriers. Later she worked at what was then known as Convair in Fort Worth. She retired from The Cattleman magazine.

She was a spirited lover of the arts and participated in community theater. During the '40s she sang on live radio with the Cowtown Rhythm Boys as "Clorinda, the Treat from Texas." Later, she sang in the choir at Wichita Avenue Methodist Church. She tirelessly mothered Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls, Cub Scouts and Boy Scout Troops providing creative projects, trips and educational opportunities for the children.

Her love of her country inspired her to be a central figure in forming the Tarrant County Libertarian Party in the early 1970s and she courageously challenged then Speaker of the House Jim Wright, debating him on television, for the sake of educating voters and politicians about the party's principles.

She was predeceased by her loving husband of 71 years, Edwin Russell Mauldin.

Survivors: She is survived by her son, Kristopher Blye Mauldin and his son, Garrett, of Los Angeles, Calif.; her daughter, Kerry and her husband, David Moskowitz, of Boiceville, N.Y., and their daughter; her sisters-in-law, Billie Jane Rhodes, Peggy Ann Brayley, Mary Louise Cox, and their husbands, children and their children; and from her sister-in-law, Opal Bridges, who predeceased her, additional nieces and their families.

Arrangements under the direction of Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery, Fort Worth, TX.