HAWKINS, Mary E.

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona February 18, 2003 Mary E. Hawkins, 92, of Phoenix, Ariz., formerly of Creston, Iowa, died Jan. 22, 2003 at the Beatitudes Campus in Phoenix, Ariz. Mrs. Hawkins, daughter of Maud and Edward J. Mc Donough, was born Sept. 18, 1910, in Creston, Iowa. She graduated from Creston High School as valedictorian of the class of 1928. She was the first editor of the Creston High School Paper, "The Arrow," and a member of the Student Council. She attended Creston Junior College, Barnard College in New York City, and graduated from the University of Wisconsin. She moved to Chicago where she worked in journalism and advertising. On Feb. 20, 1937, she married Thomas F. Hawkins. She worked in journalism in New York until the summer of 1939 when Mr. Hawkins was assigned to London with the Associated Press. Through World War II, she accompanied him to his posts in London and Europe. She also wrote feature articles for the AP and joined the U.S. Office of War Information in Bern, Switzerland. They returned to Washington after the Berlin blockade. She served as a senior staff member of the National American Home Economics Association, was editor of the Journal of Home Economics, and director of publications for the National Science Teachers Association. She moved to Phoenix in 1975 where she did free-lance editing. She was a member of the Women's National Press Club, National Association of Science Writers, Educational Press Association, World Future Society, United Nations Association of the U.S.A., Common Cause, Arizona Author's Association, Friends of the Phoenix Public Library, Phoenix Art Museum, and Heard Museum in Phoenix, Ariz. Her sister Margaret Weisshaar of Creston, Iowa, a sister-in-law, Gladys McDonough of Ottumwa, Iowa, and several nieces and nephews survive her. Her parents, her husband, and her two brothers, John McDonough and Robert McDonough, preceded her in death. Mrs. Hawkins was cremated. A.L. Moore-Grimshaw Mortuary, 710 W. Bethany Home Road, Phoenix, Ariz., had charge of the cremation. Courtesy of Pat Wilson.