The Baltimore Sun - Thursday, August 15, 1991
Active gardener Frances Dohme Cockey, a former resident of Roland Park and Dickeyville who was active in area gardening clubs, died of cancer Aug. 9 in Sun City, Ariz. She was 92.
She grew up in Chestnutwood, which is now the site of the Roland Park Country School, and graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mrs. Cockey was active in the Women's Civic League's Flower Mart held annually at the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon.
She had worked with garden clubs in Dickeyville, Greenway and Roland Park, and had been a district director of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.
She and her husband moved from Dickeyville to Sun City in 1971. Her husband, John Graff Cockey, an executive with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., died in 1977.
Mrs. Cockey is survived by two daughters, Mimi Boulden of Salisbury and Jane Dudan of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a son, Wade Fairchild of Scottsdale; two sisters, Dorothy Fraser of Santa Fe, N.M., and Emily Post of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Memorial services were held Saturday in Sun City.
Wife of Edmund Wade Faidchild (b-24 April 1899 Ny) (d-14 Dec 1972 Ca)
Mother of Edmund Wade Fairchild (1923 NJ-1998 AZ) & Mini Boulden of Salisbury, Md
Active gardener Frances Dohme Cockey, a former resident of Roland Park and Dickeyville who was active in area gardening clubs, died of cancer Aug. 9 in Sun City, Ariz. She was 92.
She grew up in Chestnutwood, which is now the site of the Roland Park Country School, and graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mrs. Cockey was active in the Women's Civic League's Flower Mart held annually at the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon.
She had worked with garden clubs in Dickeyville, Greenway and Roland Park, and had been a district director of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.
She and her husband moved from Dickeyville to Sun City in 1971. Her husband, John Graff Cockey, an executive with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., died in 1977.
Mrs. Cockey is survived by two daughters, Mimi Boulden of Salisbury and Jane Dudan of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a son, Wade Fairchild of Scottsdale; two sisters, Dorothy Fraser of Santa Fe, N.M., and Emily Post of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Memorial services were held Saturday in Sun City.
Wife of Edmund Wade Faidchild (b-24 April 1899 Ny) (d-14 Dec 1972 Ca)
Mother of Edmund Wade Fairchild (1923 NJ-1998 AZ) & Mini Boulden of Salisbury, Md
The Baltimore Sun - Thursday, August 15, 1991
Active gardener Frances Dohme Cockey, a former resident of Roland Park and Dickeyville who was active in area gardening clubs, died of cancer Aug. 9 in Sun City, Ariz. She was 92.
She grew up in Chestnutwood, which is now the site of the Roland Park Country School, and graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mrs. Cockey was active in the Women's Civic League's Flower Mart held annually at the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon.
She had worked with garden clubs in Dickeyville, Greenway and Roland Park, and had been a district director of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.
She and her husband moved from Dickeyville to Sun City in 1971. Her husband, John Graff Cockey, an executive with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., died in 1977.
Mrs. Cockey is survived by two daughters, Mimi Boulden of Salisbury and Jane Dudan of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a son, Wade Fairchild of Scottsdale; two sisters, Dorothy Fraser of Santa Fe, N.M., and Emily Post of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Memorial services were held Saturday in Sun City.
Wife of Edmund Wade Faidchild (b-24 April 1899 Ny) (d-14 Dec 1972 Ca)
Mother of Edmund Wade Fairchild (1923 NJ-1998 AZ) & Mini Boulden of Salisbury, Md
Active gardener Frances Dohme Cockey, a former resident of Roland Park and Dickeyville who was active in area gardening clubs, died of cancer Aug. 9 in Sun City, Ariz. She was 92.
She grew up in Chestnutwood, which is now the site of the Roland Park Country School, and graduated from the Bryn Mawr School and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.
In the 1950s and 1960s, Mrs. Cockey was active in the Women's Civic League's Flower Mart held annually at the Washington Monument in Mount Vernon.
She had worked with garden clubs in Dickeyville, Greenway and Roland Park, and had been a district director of the Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland.
She and her husband moved from Dickeyville to Sun City in 1971. Her husband, John Graff Cockey, an executive with the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., died in 1977.
Mrs. Cockey is survived by two daughters, Mimi Boulden of Salisbury and Jane Dudan of Scottsdale, Ariz.; a son, Wade Fairchild of Scottsdale; two sisters, Dorothy Fraser of Santa Fe, N.M., and Emily Post of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Memorial services were held Saturday in Sun City.
Wife of Edmund Wade Faidchild (b-24 April 1899 Ny) (d-14 Dec 1972 Ca)
Mother of Edmund Wade Fairchild (1923 NJ-1998 AZ) & Mini Boulden of Salisbury, Md
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