Eliza C. G. Bacas, Artist, 88

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Eliza Cunningham Goddard Bacas, a Washington DC native who in the 1960s
helped run the Artists Mart shop on Wisconsin Avenue in the Georgetown
are of Washington DC, died December 21, 2005, at Virginia Hospital
Center in Arlington, Virginia, after a heart attack, having recently
lived in Arlington, at the age of 88.

Mrs. Bacas teamed up with other female artists to sell their creations
at the market, including her specialty hand-glazed ceramics and
watercolor paintings.

She had previously sold perfume as a "Yardley girl" at the Woodward &
Lothrop department store in Washington.

Mrs. Bacas was a graduate of Sidwell Friends School and American
University.

She lived in California for about six years before returning to the
Washington DC area in the early 1950s.

Her marriage to Donald Weeks ended in divorce.

Survivors include her husband of 53 years, Harry Bacas of Arlington,
Virginia; two daughters from her first marriage, Eliza Wingate of Upper
Lake, California, and Bridget McCoy of Cotati, California; two children
from her second marriage, Alexander Bacas of Santa Rosa, California,
and Hilary Bacas Vos of Pasadena, California; and four grandchildren.

Washington Post