Ora Larthard

Larthard played at a benefit concert for the Malden Red Cross Society in 1918.^[8] She taught at the Wilde Conservatory of Music in Lansing, Michigan.^[9][10] and at Albion College School of Music.^[11] She was head of the cello department at the University of Michigan's School of Music.^[12][13] With violinist Stanislaw Samuelewicz and pianist Fred Lewis, she was a member of the Ann Arbor Trio.^[14][15]

By 1930 she was living in Malden again, with her grandmother, mother, and sister's family.^[16] In Massachusetts she was a member of the Mereminska Trio, with Margaret Clark, violinist, and Françoise Mereminska, pianist.^[17] She continued to perform as a cellist, often for women's groups or charity fundraisers,^[18] through the 1940s,^[19][20] and into the 1950s.^[21][22]

Larthard married Robert Chalfant Dean. Her husband died in 1949.^[23] She died in 1974, at the age of 85, in Rockport, Massachusetts.^[1]