with two of her sisters for a time, but she found comfort in her work towards suffrage and a new-found passion for educating women about the functions of government. She reached out to the University of Virginia and successfully proposed a three-day conference on government for newly enfranchised women, which took place in April 1920 in Charlottesville. From there she began work on a civics curriculum for Virginia's public educational institutions. Around this time, Valentine's always delicate health steadily declined. By the time suffrage was achieved she was in what co-suffragist, writer, and friend Ellen Glasgow called "her last illness". Valentine registered to vote from her bed, but was too sick to go to the polls. Valentine died at 12:15pm on July 14, 1921 at St. Luke's hospital, without ever casting a ballot. She was 56 years old. Valentine's memorial service was held at Monumental Episcopal Church where she had been married 25 years earlier; the church was filled to capacity for the service. Women served as honorary pallbearers at her funeral—the first in the history of Richmond. Valentine was buried at Hollywood Cemetery next to her husband, B.B. Fellow Equal Suffrage League co-founding member Adele Goodman Clark chaired the Lila Meade Valentine Memorial Foundation in 1927 with the aim of honoring Valentine in the Virginia State Capitol. The General Assembly placed a marble bas-relief portrait by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth of Valentine, presented by the Lila Meade Valentine Memorial Foundation, in the Virginia State Capitol in 1936. She was the first woman to be honored there. In 2000, Valentine was honored by the Library of Virginia as part of the inaugural class of Virginia Women in History. Valentine's name is featured on the Wall of Honor on the Virginia Women's Monument, located in Capitol Square in Richmond. References 1865 births 1921 deaths American suffragists American women's rights activists 19th-century American educators People from Richmond, Virginia Activists from Virginia Virginia suffrage Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia) 19th-century American women educators