Edith Lavina Sowersby was born in Michigan on March 4, 1875 of Canadian parents. She moved to Los Angeles in 1921 and settled in Huntington Park. Locally she studied with Jack Wilkinson Smith, Nell Walker Warner, and Hanson Puthuff. A spinster, she died in Huntington Beach, California on December 9, 1959. Her work includes landscapes, florals, and seascapes. Member: Women Painters of the West.