Mavity, Nancy B.

Oct 22, 1890 – April 23, 1959

Nancy Barr Mavity Rogers, distinguished newspaperwoman, author and critic and member of the Oakland Tribune staff for 34 years, died of a heart attack early today.Death came at her home, 112 Lexford Road, Piedmont. She was 68 years old.

She was at her desk, asusual, in The Tribune city room yesterday. She died without warning when apparently in good health.Her* passing will end a famous, respected and constant byline in The Tribune over the years:

"By Nancy Barr Mavity." During her long career she covered many of the outstanding stories, particularly crime, of her era, authored 12 books, wrote fact and fiction for national magazines. Since 1943 she has been literary editor of The Tribune.

In private life she was Married to  Edward (Doc) Rogers,  of The Tribune's veteran news photographer. Together they had been an outstanding writing-photography team. She was the daughter of Dr  G. Walter Barr who gave her early indoctrination in newspaper work because he himself turned to it instead of a profession of medicine. She was educated in Western College, Oxford, Ohio, and too her Ph.D. in philosophy a Cornell University after graduate study at Wellesley College.

 In 1925 she came to The Tribune where she remained since as one of the outstanding women reporters to

her day. She spent those years lending a brilliant mind and facile writing talent to every type of story covering criminals to prime ministers, trials to greaworld-corrfereh'ces, prisoners to literary evaluation.

Besides her husband she is survived by two children. Miss.Nancy Mavity Nye, wife of George Nye, Alameda County public defender, and John Barr Mavity of Berkeley. There are four grandchildren of Lawrenceville