Elizabeth G. Bailey, 94, traveler and seamstress

Elizabeth Graham Bailey, 94, a skilled seamstress and world traveler, died Friday, Jan. 11, of natural causes at the Residence at Glen Riddle in Media, where she had lived for eight years.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., to Frances and Burr Graham, Mrs. Bailey was a graduate of Centenary College in New Jersey.

In 1939, she married Wilbur Bailey, a graduate of West Point and a communications engineer for the Army.

She spent the next 20 years traveling with her husband to postings in England, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. They raised three sons.

Her son Bruce said she told of taking his two brothers, toddlers at the time, on a trip from Hackensack, N.J., to San Diego in 1946. There the trio boarded a troop ship to the Philippines to join Wilbur Bailey. Bruce had not been born at that time.

"It wasn't that bad," her son said she told him. "She had lots of help from the soldiers."

Mrs. Bailey returned to the United States and earned a bachelor's degree in art history and French from the University of Pennsylvania in the 1960s.

From 1974 to 1978, she worked as museum registrar and assistant general curator of the collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She also worked briefly at the Whitney Museum in New York.

In 1980 and 1981, she was a research assistant at Butcher & Singer, a Philadelphia brokerage house absorbed by Wheat, First Securities in 1988.

A longtime resident of Wallingford, Mrs. Bailey enjoyed traveling in the United States and to Spain, France, and Sweden.

She was a skilled, self-taught seamstress, quilter, and needlepoint artist. She and friend Elizabeth Kolowrat ran a small business in Swarthmore called the Quilt Clinic. They repaired quilts for several years, until 2000.

She was a member of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and the Scott Arboretum, where she volunteered.

Surviving, in addition to her son, are another son, Richard; three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Wilbur Bailey, from whom she was divorced in 1964, and son Douglas died earlier.

Mrs. Bailey donated her body to science. A family memorial service will be in the spring. Donations may be made to the Swarthmore Public Library, 121 Park Ave., Swarthmore, Pa. 19081.