Elizabeth L. “Duffy” Hutter died Sept. 15 at Acorn Glen Assisted Living, Princeton.
Born in 1923 near Kingston, Pa., she was raised on a farm.
After graduating from Wyoming Seminary and Bucknell Junior College, she moved to Washington. D.C. to become a cartographer and editor of intelligence reports for the Army Map Service during World War II. She spent time outside of Washington pursuing spelunking, and was the first person to explore “Duffy’s Cavern.”
In 1949 she moved to Princeton to work for Julian Boyd at Princeton University as an associate editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson. In the 1960s, she and her husband Edwin “Peter” Hutter, a physicist at RCA, became involved in environmental, transportation, and other civic causes including becoming founders of the Friends of Princeton Environment (now Friends of Princeton Open Space), and serving on municipal and county task forces and committees.
In 1975 Mrs. Hutter was elected to Princeton Township Committee and became deputy mayor in 1977. She was a member of the Regional Planning Board of Princeton and served as vice chairman from 1981-1983. The township named a new link road, “Duffy Place,” in her honor in November 2007. She also helped to launch the D&R Greenway Land Trust.
Predeceased by her parents John Hancock and Maria Pennypacker Lance, her husband, sisters Ruth O’Neill, Ramsay Raymond of Princeton, and Patricia Appelmans, she is survived by a daughter Fairfax Hutter; sons John of Hopewell Township and Peter Hutter; daughters-in-law Suzanne Hutter and Ingrid Schultze; and granddaughters Louise, Grace and Margot.
A memorial service will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer St., Princeton, on Oct. 11 at 11 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Friends of Princeton Open Space or the North Branch Land Trust, Carverton Road, Trucksville, Pa., 18708.

