New York Evening Sun
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- New York Evening Sun
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Last rites for Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, companion and teacher of Helen Keller for nearly fifty years, will be conducted at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, at 1010 Park Avenue. The Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and the Rev. Edmund M. Wylie, the pastor, will officiate. Mrs. Macy died yesterday. Cremation, in accordance with Mrs. Macy's wish, will take place at the Fresh Pond Crematory in Queens. The honorary pallbearers will be Mr. C. Migel, president, American Foundation for the Blind; Robert Irwin, executive director of the foundation; Harvey D. Gibson, Russell Doubleday, Dr. Conrad Berens, Dr. Philip S. Smith, Dr. William F. Saybolt, Dr. John H. Finley, Louis Bamberger, the Rev. Dr. Edward E. Allen, director emeritus of the Perkins Institution; Dr. William Allan Nelson, president of Smith College, and William Zeigler Jr. Miss Keller, who, according to her intimates, preferred to be 'alone with her thoughts', did not receive any of the numerous friends who called at the home at 71-11 Seminole avenue in Forest Hills, L. I., yesterday to extend condolence. Among those who sent messages were Fraser Hunt, newspaper correspondent; Dr. Otis W. Caldwell of Columbia University, Reginald Allen, president of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra; the New York Association for the Blind, the Thomas Payne Memorial Association and Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographic Society. Miss Keller, according to friends, will continue her support of the American Foundation for the Blind. Her friend and secretary, Polly Thomson, who lived with Mrs. Macy and Miss Keller in Forest Hills, will assist her. Miss Thomson has been associated with Miss Keller for twenty-two years and is thoroughly familiar with the work. The presentation of Roosevelt memorial medals to Miss Keller and Mrs. Macy, which was to have taken place in Manhattan next Monday, has been postponed, according to Herman Hagedorn, biographer of the late Col. Theodore Roosevelt. The presentation of one of the medals will be made to Miss Keller next year.
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New York Evening Sun
- Date:
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1936
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Newspapers
- Genre:
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Clippings
- Location:
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Perkins School for the Blind
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library - Collection (local):
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Condolence Letters and Clippings
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Blind
Perkins School for the Blind
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- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b8516402z
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Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Newspaper clipping from the New York Evening Sun. Headline: Macy Funeral Plans.
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AG88-n-6