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
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