Robin Corinna DOUGHERTY

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Robin C. Dougherty Death Notice DOUGHERTY, ROBIN C. On Saturday, May 21, 2005 at her home in Washinton, DC. Beloved sisterof Patricia Dougherty of Charlottesville, VA and Lynn Dougherty ofTopanga, CA. Beloved daugher of Carolyn Forch of Springfield, VA. Sheis also survived by neices, Maggie Riggs Dougherty, Rosemary LyellHerrmann and Nora Chengruo Dougherty Mayers; nephew, Jackson DoughertyMayers, and brothers-in-law John Herrmann and Michael Mayers. She willbe missed by many, many dear friends, including Harvey Simon. Serviceswill be held Thursday, May 26, 2005 at River Road Unitarian Church,6301 River Road, Bethesda, MD at 3 p.m. Memorial contributions may bemade to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, www.Komen.org. Published in The Washington Post on May 25, 2005 Journalist, Columnist and Critic Robin Dougherty, 45 By Matt Schudel Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, May 26, 2005 Robin Dougherty, 45, a journalist and critic who wrote an incisiveseries of author interviews for the Boston Globe, died May 21 at herhome in Washington. She had a cerebral hemorrhage as a complication oftreatment for breast cancer. In her column for the Globe, which she wrote from 2001 until the weekof her death, Ms. Dougherty interviewed dozens of authors, from DavidHalberstam and Michael Chabon to Caroline Kennedy and scientist StevenPinker. She had been a feature writer, television critic and theater critic inBoston and Miami before moving to Washington five years ago to work asa freelance writer. She also wrote for the online magazine Salon,Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post and other publications. In a recent essay, "Empathy," published in a magazine about dogscalled the Bark, Ms. Dougherty humorously described her relationshipwith Mollie, a black Labrador and greyhound mix, during her illness.When Ms. Dougherty was undergoing chemotherapy, Mollie experiencednausea and other side effects as a sympathetic reaction. "Mollie's gastric hurricanes quickly became a regular part of mycancer experience -- inexplicable to all, but as regular asclockwork," she wrote. "I would go in for chemotherapy and sometime inthe next 24 hours, Mollie would toss her cookies. "The panicky early-morning calls to my heroic dog walker becameroutine. 'Are you nearby? You are? Good. I think she's about to hurl.'" Ms. Dougherty was a disciplined writer who continued to work despiteher deteriorating health. She conducted her author interviews bytelephone after immersing herself in the works of her subjects. Shewrote reviews and essays on film, books, television and theater,showing a special acuity in her analysis of works about women. In her 1996 obituary for the Miami Herald of Audrey Meadows, whoplayed the wife of Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden on "TheHoneymooners," Ms. Dougherty wrote: "As mistress of the Kramdens'cold-water flat, Meadows ruled because she was the one with the goodhead on her shoulders. . . . It was Alice who controlled the chaoticgoings-on in their lives. She provided order amid her husband'sanarchy." Ms. Dougherty was born in Washington, grew up in Annandale andgraduated from Annandale High School. She was a graduate of theCollege of William and Mary and received a master's degree in Englishfrom Boston University in 1982. She stayed in Boston for the next 13 years as an art critic andfeature writer for the Boston Phoenix before moving to Miami, whereshe was the Herald's television critic from 1995 to 1997. She assailedthe mindless hype of local television news shows and directionlessawards shows and covered the development of the "V-chip," whichprevents violent programs from being seen by children. After freelancing for several publications, she joined the weeklyMiami New Times from 1998 to 2000 as its theater critic. In herpointed farewell column, she wrote: "If young people are exposed onlyto warmed-over David Mamet, obscure Tennessee Williams, and overhypedBroadway shows, why should they be enthusiastic about other, moreexciting forms of theater? How would they even know these thingsexist?" Ms. Dougherty had a wide circle of friends and tried to live as full alife as possible, in spite of her illness. One of her final projects,not yet published, was an interview with cultural critic Susan Sontag,who died in December, in which they both discussed their battles withcancer. Survivors include her mother, Carolyn Forch of Springfield; twosisters, Patricia Dougherty of Charlottesville and Lynn Dougherty ofTopanga, Calif.; and her companion, Harvey Simon of Washington.

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Titel	Hansen - Madigan Family Tree
Beschreibung	The Madigan Family from County Limerick, Ireland to Chicago, Illinois, USA. The Hansen Family from Svendborg, Fyn, Denmark to Racine, Wisconsin, and to St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Related families of McCormack, Ortmann, Münch, Twohig, Halloran, Slattery, Alburger & Husmann.
Hochgeladen	2012-08-28 18:55:39.0
Einsender	Charles Hansen
E-Mail	charles@hansen.name
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