Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Griswold Christine G 890511 p11
Novelist who was Patterson visitor dies; A frequent visitor to Patterson, Christine Goutiere Weston Griswold, has died in
Bangor, Maine after a long illness.  She died may 4 at age 85. A writer who had published 10 novels, and a contributor of
many articles to The New Yorker magazine, she had annually visited her brother, Vernon Goutiere in Patterson. She was
born in Unao in what is now Uttar Pradesh in northern India. Her father was a British barrister who was descended from
French indigo planters in India. Many of her short stories and well-known novels used her native country as a setting.
She was awarded a Guggen-heim Fellowship in 1940. In 1923 she married an American businessman, Robert Weston,
and moved to Maine.  She died in the early 1950s. Her second husband, Roger Griswold died in 1973. Her books include
Be Thou the Bride (1940), "Indigo" (1943), "the Dark Wood" (1946), "The World is Bridge" (1950), and "The
Hoopoe" (1970). Other survivors besides Dr. Goutiere include another brother, Peter J. Goutiere of Coral Springs, Fla.,
and a sister, Geraldine Acome of Avon, Conn., as well as four stepchildren and, numerous nieces and nephews in the
United States and Canada.