Aged 88 years. Section 6, Block 62, Lot 4, Grave - Vault 1.
Literary Dickey Family Loses Mother at Age 88
Mrs. Eugene Dickey, who introduced one of the South's most famous living poets to Shakespeare adn who reared tow other literary children died Friday.
The mother of James Dickey, author of the novel "Deliverance" and former poet-in-residence at hte Library of Congress, is also surived by a daughter, Maibelle Dickey Hodgins, a nature writer and photographer, and second son, author and Civil War expert. They are from Atlanta. Their poet-brother, known to the family as "Jimmy," lives in Columbia, S.C.
Mrs. Dickey, the former Maibelle Swift, died at Piedmont Hospital 88 years after her birth at the Capitol Avenue Mansion, that became the hospital's first home. The home was built by her father, Charles Thomas Swift, cofounder of the S.S.S. Co.,makers of the patent medicine familiarly known throughout the South as "Three-S-Tonic."
Though she studied voice and painted as a young woman, "all she wanted to do was have children," her daugher said Friday.
The family's literary strain apparently is repeating itself in some of the five grandchildren and a great-grandchild who also survive her.
Christopher Dickey, son of James, is on the staff of Book World, the books section of the Washington Post. Among her other grandchildren, Dorian Dickey is an actress and her brother, Thomas S. Dickey Jr., is an architecture student at Georgia Tech.
Mrs. Dickey was the quiet supporter of several charitable organizations. A graduate of Washington Seminary who attended Brenau College, she was a communicant of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip. She lived at 166 West Wesley Rd. N.W.
Patterson's funeral home is in charge.
Literary Dickey Family Loses Mother at Age 88
Mrs. Eugene Dickey, who introduced one of the South's most famous living poets to Shakespeare adn who reared tow other literary children died Friday.
The mother of James Dickey, author of the novel "Deliverance" and former poet-in-residence at hte Library of Congress, is also surived by a daughter, Maibelle Dickey Hodgins, a nature writer and photographer, and second son, author and Civil War expert. They are from Atlanta. Their poet-brother, known to the family as "Jimmy," lives in Columbia, S.C.
Mrs. Dickey, the former Maibelle Swift, died at Piedmont Hospital 88 years after her birth at the Capitol Avenue Mansion, that became the hospital's first home. The home was built by her father, Charles Thomas Swift, cofounder of the S.S.S. Co.,makers of the patent medicine familiarly known throughout the South as "Three-S-Tonic."
Though she studied voice and painted as a young woman, "all she wanted to do was have children," her daugher said Friday.
The family's literary strain apparently is repeating itself in some of the five grandchildren and a great-grandchild who also survive her.
Christopher Dickey, son of James, is on the staff of Book World, the books section of the Washington Post. Among her other grandchildren, Dorian Dickey is an actress and her brother, Thomas S. Dickey Jr., is an architecture student at Georgia Tech.
Mrs. Dickey was the quiet supporter of several charitable organizations. A graduate of Washington Seminary who attended Brenau College, she was a communicant of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip. She lived at 166 West Wesley Rd. N.W.
Patterson's funeral home is in charge.
Aged 88 years. Section 6, Block 62, Lot 4, Grave - Vault 1.
Literary Dickey Family Loses Mother at Age 88
Mrs. Eugene Dickey, who introduced one of the South's most famous living poets to Shakespeare adn who reared tow other literary children died Friday.
The mother of James Dickey, author of the novel "Deliverance" and former poet-in-residence at hte Library of Congress, is also surived by a daughter, Maibelle Dickey Hodgins, a nature writer and photographer, and second son, author and Civil War expert. They are from Atlanta. Their poet-brother, known to the family as "Jimmy," lives in Columbia, S.C.
Mrs. Dickey, the former Maibelle Swift, died at Piedmont Hospital 88 years after her birth at the Capitol Avenue Mansion, that became the hospital's first home. The home was built by her father, Charles Thomas Swift, cofounder of the S.S.S. Co.,makers of the patent medicine familiarly known throughout the South as "Three-S-Tonic."
Though she studied voice and painted as a young woman, "all she wanted to do was have children," her daugher said Friday.
The family's literary strain apparently is repeating itself in some of the five grandchildren and a great-grandchild who also survive her.
Christopher Dickey, son of James, is on the staff of Book World, the books section of the Washington Post. Among her other grandchildren, Dorian Dickey is an actress and her brother, Thomas S. Dickey Jr., is an architecture student at Georgia Tech.
Mrs. Dickey was the quiet supporter of several charitable organizations. A graduate of Washington Seminary who attended Brenau College, she was a communicant of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip. She lived at 166 West Wesley Rd. N.W.
Patterson's funeral home is in charge.
Literary Dickey Family Loses Mother at Age 88
Mrs. Eugene Dickey, who introduced one of the South's most famous living poets to Shakespeare adn who reared tow other literary children died Friday.
The mother of James Dickey, author of the novel "Deliverance" and former poet-in-residence at hte Library of Congress, is also surived by a daughter, Maibelle Dickey Hodgins, a nature writer and photographer, and second son, author and Civil War expert. They are from Atlanta. Their poet-brother, known to the family as "Jimmy," lives in Columbia, S.C.
Mrs. Dickey, the former Maibelle Swift, died at Piedmont Hospital 88 years after her birth at the Capitol Avenue Mansion, that became the hospital's first home. The home was built by her father, Charles Thomas Swift, cofounder of the S.S.S. Co.,makers of the patent medicine familiarly known throughout the South as "Three-S-Tonic."
Though she studied voice and painted as a young woman, "all she wanted to do was have children," her daugher said Friday.
The family's literary strain apparently is repeating itself in some of the five grandchildren and a great-grandchild who also survive her.
Christopher Dickey, son of James, is on the staff of Book World, the books section of the Washington Post. Among her other grandchildren, Dorian Dickey is an actress and her brother, Thomas S. Dickey Jr., is an architecture student at Georgia Tech.
Mrs. Dickey was the quiet supporter of several charitable organizations. A graduate of Washington Seminary who attended Brenau College, she was a communicant of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Phillip. She lived at 166 West Wesley Rd. N.W.
Patterson's funeral home is in charge.
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