Elizabeth Going Boykin Wooten

ELIZABETH GOING BOYKIN WOOTEN of Little Rock, Ark., aged 80, died Dec. 3, 2010. She is survived by her husband, C. Edward Wooten, a son, Dr. E. Wrenn Wooten of Plano, Texas, one grandson, Robert Wrenn Wooten, and a brother, Capt. Rhodes Boykin, USN (Ret.), of Chevy Chase, Maryland. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, a descendant of one of that city's founding families, Mrs. Wooten received her bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University with additional French Language studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. She earned a masters degree in library science from Emory University, where she also qualified as a Certified Medical Librarian. She had done further graduate work at Farleigh Dickenson University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. She had resided in Little Rock since 1969, and until her retirement was for 35 years Librarian of Little Rock's Cathedral School. She was a longtime member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Little Rock and was a founding member of St. Margaret's Guild. Earlier in her business career and before her marriage, she had served as Medical and Business Reference Librarian at Lederle Laboratories in New York. She was an officer in both the New York Medical Library Association and the Special Libraries Association. An early supporter of automated research methods, she addressed the 1958 International Pharmaceutical Conference in Brussels, Belgium, where she represented American Medical Librarians, about the need to coordinate medical research through the latest technology. She later served as Interim Librarian at the Emory University Graduate School of Business, and as Medical Library Consultant to the State of Louisiana, as well as advisor to numerous physicians in their research. She was a member of the Huguenot Society of Arkansas and of the Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America. A Requiem Eucharist will be celebrated at St. Mark's Church at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2010. Interment will be at a later date at historic Oak Hill Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama. The family has requested that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to The Cathedral School, St. Francis House, Little Rock, the Crisis Assistance Fund at St. Mark's Church, or to the charity of the donor's choice. Arrangements by Ruebel Funeral Home, www.ruebelfuneralhome.com.