Actress. The widow of playwright Donald MacLaren, Norah appeared on stages with Richard Mansfield and the Sothern-Marlowe company. She retired from the stage in 1919.
Acting under the name Norah Lamison, her many stage credits include Barbara Frietchie (1899), Pretty Peggy (1903), Blue Grass (1908), Major Barbara (1915), Eve’s Daughter (1917), Taming of the Shrew (1919) and Hamlet (1919.)
(Biography provided by Findagrave member TLS #372)
OBITUARY FROM THE LIMA NEWS , LIMA, OHIO, 10 FEBRUARY 1956:
Graveside services for Mrs. Norah MacLaren, a native of Lima, and prominent Shakespearean actress in New York for many years, were held Thursday in Woodlawn Cemetery, with the Rev. E. E. Wood, in charge.
The ashes of Mrs. MacLaren, who had appeared with many of the theater's most prominent stage personalities, were returned here for burial. She died Dec. 14 of a cerebral hemorrhage in her New York City home.
She retired from the stage in 1919, and since that time had operated a real estate office in New York. A protégé of state star May Robeson, she also had appeared on the Stage with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, and with Richard Mansfield in several Shakespearean dramas.
She was the widow of Donald F. MacLaren, a native of Milwaukee, and was the daughter of Charles Nelson Lamison and Elizabeth Gordon Moyer Lamison of Lima.
The only survivor is a nephew, Thomas Lamison Sprague, a retired Navy vice admiral, now living in Oakland, Calif.
Davis-Miller & Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements here.
(Contributor: Sioux Ellen Craft Kimberling, member #50474324)
Acting under the name Norah Lamison, her many stage credits include Barbara Frietchie (1899), Pretty Peggy (1903), Blue Grass (1908), Major Barbara (1915), Eve’s Daughter (1917), Taming of the Shrew (1919) and Hamlet (1919.)
(Biography provided by Findagrave member TLS #372)
OBITUARY FROM THE LIMA NEWS , LIMA, OHIO, 10 FEBRUARY 1956:
Graveside services for Mrs. Norah MacLaren, a native of Lima, and prominent Shakespearean actress in New York for many years, were held Thursday in Woodlawn Cemetery, with the Rev. E. E. Wood, in charge.
The ashes of Mrs. MacLaren, who had appeared with many of the theater's most prominent stage personalities, were returned here for burial. She died Dec. 14 of a cerebral hemorrhage in her New York City home.
She retired from the stage in 1919, and since that time had operated a real estate office in New York. A protégé of state star May Robeson, she also had appeared on the Stage with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, and with Richard Mansfield in several Shakespearean dramas.
She was the widow of Donald F. MacLaren, a native of Milwaukee, and was the daughter of Charles Nelson Lamison and Elizabeth Gordon Moyer Lamison of Lima.
The only survivor is a nephew, Thomas Lamison Sprague, a retired Navy vice admiral, now living in Oakland, Calif.
Davis-Miller & Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements here.
(Contributor: Sioux Ellen Craft Kimberling, member #50474324)
Actress. The widow of playwright Donald MacLaren, Norah appeared on stages with Richard Mansfield and the Sothern-Marlowe company. She retired from the stage in 1919.
Acting under the name Norah Lamison, her many stage credits include Barbara Frietchie (1899), Pretty Peggy (1903), Blue Grass (1908), Major Barbara (1915), Eve’s Daughter (1917), Taming of the Shrew (1919) and Hamlet (1919.)
(Biography provided by Findagrave member TLS #372)
OBITUARY FROM THE LIMA NEWS , LIMA, OHIO, 10 FEBRUARY 1956:
Graveside services for Mrs. Norah MacLaren, a native of Lima, and prominent Shakespearean actress in New York for many years, were held Thursday in Woodlawn Cemetery, with the Rev. E. E. Wood, in charge.
The ashes of Mrs. MacLaren, who had appeared with many of the theater's most prominent stage personalities, were returned here for burial. She died Dec. 14 of a cerebral hemorrhage in her New York City home.
She retired from the stage in 1919, and since that time had operated a real estate office in New York. A protégé of state star May Robeson, she also had appeared on the Stage with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, and with Richard Mansfield in several Shakespearean dramas.
She was the widow of Donald F. MacLaren, a native of Milwaukee, and was the daughter of Charles Nelson Lamison and Elizabeth Gordon Moyer Lamison of Lima.
The only survivor is a nephew, Thomas Lamison Sprague, a retired Navy vice admiral, now living in Oakland, Calif.
Davis-Miller & Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements here.
(Contributor: Sioux Ellen Craft Kimberling, member #50474324)
Acting under the name Norah Lamison, her many stage credits include Barbara Frietchie (1899), Pretty Peggy (1903), Blue Grass (1908), Major Barbara (1915), Eve’s Daughter (1917), Taming of the Shrew (1919) and Hamlet (1919.)
(Biography provided by Findagrave member TLS #372)
OBITUARY FROM THE LIMA NEWS , LIMA, OHIO, 10 FEBRUARY 1956:
Graveside services for Mrs. Norah MacLaren, a native of Lima, and prominent Shakespearean actress in New York for many years, were held Thursday in Woodlawn Cemetery, with the Rev. E. E. Wood, in charge.
The ashes of Mrs. MacLaren, who had appeared with many of the theater's most prominent stage personalities, were returned here for burial. She died Dec. 14 of a cerebral hemorrhage in her New York City home.
She retired from the stage in 1919, and since that time had operated a real estate office in New York. A protégé of state star May Robeson, she also had appeared on the Stage with E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, and with Richard Mansfield in several Shakespearean dramas.
She was the widow of Donald F. MacLaren, a native of Milwaukee, and was the daughter of Charles Nelson Lamison and Elizabeth Gordon Moyer Lamison of Lima.
The only survivor is a nephew, Thomas Lamison Sprague, a retired Navy vice admiral, now living in Oakland, Calif.
Davis-Miller & Son Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements here.
(Contributor: Sioux Ellen Craft Kimberling, member #50474324)
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