Ambassador (ret.) Charles R. Stith

Mildred Boutin Prothrow Passes at 102

Mildred Boutin Prothrow, 102, died August 7, in Maho, Sint Maarten Netherlands Antilles, during an annual family vacation. She had been living in Los Angeles with her daughter, Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, dean of the Medical School at Charles R. Drew University, and son-in-law, Ambassador (ret.) Charles R. Stith. She also shared their homes in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Boston. Born on April 7, 1917 in Pointe á la Hache, Louisiana, she grew up in Jackson, Mississippi. She graduated from Wiley College (BS ’41) in Marshall, Texas, where she met Percy W. Prothrow Jr., her husband of 33 years until