Dorothy Wirth was the daughter of Dorothy(nee Segersen) and Clarence Hickox of Newton, Ma. She had two sisters, Jane and Anne. After the couple divorced, Mrs. Hickox married Jacob Wirth, owner of the famous Boston German restaurant. They moved to a townhouse at 32 Lime St., in Boston's Beacon Hill, and spent summers at Camp Wirth, the family vacation home in Temple, Maine.
She attended Boston Latin School and Radcliffe College, where she competed in swimming and sang in the choir, graduating with honors. She them moved to NYC, where she worked st the World Bank, and studied painting at the New School for Social Research, and became an accomplished abstract expressionist artist.
She did volunteer work in the 50s and 60s for the antinuclear group, Women's Strike for Peace, who protested to stop testing of the atomic bomb.
She married David Lloyd Bernstein in the early 1950s and they divorced 11 years later in Bethesda, Md. She later earned a degree in city planning from Howard University while supporting 4 daughters in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the 70s she moved back to her beloved Greenwich Village, NYC, to an apt on Barrow St. where she lived and occasionally painted until her death in 2001, a few weeks before 9/11.
She is survived by her daughters Elisa, Alexandra, Gabrielle and Eve.
When the building manager first entered her apartment after her death to pack up her belongings, he remarked that they never expected to find so many Alice Cooper albums. She was a most unusual person and mother, and will be missed.
She attended Boston Latin School and Radcliffe College, where she competed in swimming and sang in the choir, graduating with honors. She them moved to NYC, where she worked st the World Bank, and studied painting at the New School for Social Research, and became an accomplished abstract expressionist artist.
She did volunteer work in the 50s and 60s for the antinuclear group, Women's Strike for Peace, who protested to stop testing of the atomic bomb.
She married David Lloyd Bernstein in the early 1950s and they divorced 11 years later in Bethesda, Md. She later earned a degree in city planning from Howard University while supporting 4 daughters in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the 70s she moved back to her beloved Greenwich Village, NYC, to an apt on Barrow St. where she lived and occasionally painted until her death in 2001, a few weeks before 9/11.
She is survived by her daughters Elisa, Alexandra, Gabrielle and Eve.
When the building manager first entered her apartment after her death to pack up her belongings, he remarked that they never expected to find so many Alice Cooper albums. She was a most unusual person and mother, and will be missed.
Dorothy Wirth was the daughter of Dorothy(nee Segersen) and Clarence Hickox of Newton, Ma. She had two sisters, Jane and Anne. After the couple divorced, Mrs. Hickox married Jacob Wirth, owner of the famous Boston German restaurant. They moved to a townhouse at 32 Lime St., in Boston's Beacon Hill, and spent summers at Camp Wirth, the family vacation home in Temple, Maine.
She attended Boston Latin School and Radcliffe College, where she competed in swimming and sang in the choir, graduating with honors. She them moved to NYC, where she worked st the World Bank, and studied painting at the New School for Social Research, and became an accomplished abstract expressionist artist.
She did volunteer work in the 50s and 60s for the antinuclear group, Women's Strike for Peace, who protested to stop testing of the atomic bomb.
She married David Lloyd Bernstein in the early 1950s and they divorced 11 years later in Bethesda, Md. She later earned a degree in city planning from Howard University while supporting 4 daughters in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the 70s she moved back to her beloved Greenwich Village, NYC, to an apt on Barrow St. where she lived and occasionally painted until her death in 2001, a few weeks before 9/11.
She is survived by her daughters Elisa, Alexandra, Gabrielle and Eve.
When the building manager first entered her apartment after her death to pack up her belongings, he remarked that they never expected to find so many Alice Cooper albums. She was a most unusual person and mother, and will be missed.
She attended Boston Latin School and Radcliffe College, where she competed in swimming and sang in the choir, graduating with honors. She them moved to NYC, where she worked st the World Bank, and studied painting at the New School for Social Research, and became an accomplished abstract expressionist artist.
She did volunteer work in the 50s and 60s for the antinuclear group, Women's Strike for Peace, who protested to stop testing of the atomic bomb.
She married David Lloyd Bernstein in the early 1950s and they divorced 11 years later in Bethesda, Md. She later earned a degree in city planning from Howard University while supporting 4 daughters in Fairfax County, Virginia. In the 70s she moved back to her beloved Greenwich Village, NYC, to an apt on Barrow St. where she lived and occasionally painted until her death in 2001, a few weeks before 9/11.
She is survived by her daughters Elisa, Alexandra, Gabrielle and Eve.
When the building manager first entered her apartment after her death to pack up her belongings, he remarked that they never expected to find so many Alice Cooper albums. She was a most unusual person and mother, and will be missed.
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