A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2000, in the Church of St. John the Divine in New York for Emily Noyes Maxwell, who died July 23 of ovarian cancer at age 78.
Mrs. Maxwell was born Aug. 25, 1921, in Portland. Her maiden name was Noyes. She attended Lincoln High School. She later graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts in 1943, then she moved to New York City. She reviewed children's books for the New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s. Her paintings have been shown in various New York galleries over the past 15 years. She received the Medal of Honor from the National Association of Women Artists in 1986. In 1945, she married fiction writer and New Yorker editor William Maxwell; he died July 31.
Survivors include her daughters, Kate Maxwell and Brookie Maxwell; brothers, Robert Noyes and H.F. Noyes; and one grandchild.
Disposition was by cremation. Arrangements are by the E. Willis Scott funeral home in New York.
[The Oregonian, August 14, 2000]
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2000, in the Church of St. John the Divine in New York for Emily Noyes Maxwell, who died July 23 of ovarian cancer at age 78.
Mrs. Maxwell was born Aug. 25, 1921, in Portland. Her maiden name was Noyes. She attended Lincoln High School. She later graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts in 1943, then she moved to New York City. She reviewed children's books for the New Yorker in the 1950s and 1960s. Her paintings have been shown in various New York galleries over the past 15 years. She received the Medal of Honor from the National Association of Women Artists in 1986. In 1945, she married fiction writer and New Yorker editor William Maxwell; he died July 31.
Survivors include her daughters, Kate Maxwell and Brookie Maxwell; brothers, Robert Noyes and H.F. Noyes; and one grandchild.
Disposition was by cremation. Arrangements are by the E. Willis Scott funeral home in New York.
[The Oregonian, August 14, 2000]
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