Remembering Violet Westbury by Susan Z. Diamond ASH Dorothy Belle Pollack, Violet Westbury, passed away on June 16, 2014, at the age of 92. As faithful Muse readers know, her sprightly verse and ingenious puzzles graced the inside front cover of each issue. She appeared in more Muse issues than any other author and was recognized officially as the ASH […]
Remembering Maggie Oakshot by Sherry Rose-Bond Starting about forty years ago and within a very short period of time, Charlotte Wisniewski became Rivkah Peller: a rabbi’s wife, one of my closest friends, an active Sherlockian, and Maggie Oakshott of ASH. Each new role she undertook became an adventure for Rivkah, which she entered with her full heart […]
Remembering A Curious Collection by Judith Freeman, ASH On Friday, May 26, 2006, the Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes lost a sister and I lost a friend when Trish Pearlman died of a stroke after a long struggle with cancer. Being an Adventuress gave Trish great joy. She chose “A Curious Collection” as her investiture—that title […]
Remembering The Old Russian Woman (BSI: The Old Russian Woman), 1905-1991 by Evelyn Herzog Both the BSI and ASH lost a well-respected member when Lenore Glen Offord (“The Old Russian Woman” in both groups) died on April 24th, her eighty-fifth-and-a-half birthday. She wrote a dozen novels between 1938 and 1959. Most of them were mysteries, […]
Remembering Patience Moran (BSI: Patience Moran) by Evelyn A. Herzog The Adventuresses of Sherlock Holmes have lost not just a founding member but the symbol of their wit and intrepidity. Pat Moran died on 12 March 1996, at age 48, after many years of medical adventures (as she termed them) resulting from juvenile-onset diabetes. She […]
Remembering An Honorable Soldier (BSI: Sir Augustus Moran, C.B.) by Margaret Fleesak Joseph W. Moran, ASH, An Honourable Soldier, BSI, Sir Augustus Moran, C.B.,crossed the Reichenbach on February 18, 2014 at the age of 86. For over 30 years he was a distinguished figure at Sherlockian meetings, with his deerstalker cap, cape, and beard. He’ll be remembered […]
Remembering The Trained Cormorant (BSI: Mrs. Hudson) Lisa was the second woman given a shilling in the Baker Street Irregulars. A retiring freelance editor, Lisa ran the Gillette Memorial Luncheon at the Holmes Birthday Weekend in New York City. This task was thrust upon her by Julian Wolfe, head of the BSI, at her second […]
Remembering Elsie Cubitt by Marina Stajic It is always with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to dear friends. There is, however, a certain sense of comfort when the departed friend lived a long, healthy life. Gertrude H. Mahoney—Elsie Cubitt to ASH—died on May 18. She was 95. Until just a few months ago, Gertrude […]
Remembering Elizabeth Baskerville by Elaine Coppola Sadly, Marilyn MacGregor, ASH (Elizabeth Baskerville), BSI (V.V. 341), passed away on September 16, 2020 at the age of 94. Marilyn was a very special lady with unbridled enthusiasm and joy for life and its adventures. Born Marilyn Russell in Portland, Oregon, she graduated from Oregon State in 1949 […]
Remembering Mary Maberly by MaryKate Brennan (originally published in Volume 23, No. 2 of the Muse): Betty Jane Kraemer (Mary Maberly) died January 7, 2007 in Tonawanda, NY. It’s been 25 years since I last saw Betty Jane Kraemer, but I retain fond memories of “BJ,” the grande dame of the early days of Buffalo’s Irish Secret […]