Wife and muse of poet Ogden Nash. Of courting her, he wrote:
What shall I do
With so-and-so?
She won't say yes
And she won't say no.
Of their marriage he wrote:
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died at her home of myelodysplasia, a blood disorder. She was 88.
Mrs. Nash was the granddaughter of Maryland Gov. Elihu Jackson who served a term as governor from 1888 to 1892. She met her husband to be, then an advertising copywriter for Doubleday & Co., in the fall of 1928 at a dinner dance, and they were married in Baltimore's Church of the Redeemer in 1931, the same year Nash's first book of poetry, "Hard Lines," was published. Prior to this, she was educated at Calvert School and Roland Park Country School and graduated from the Great Barrington School in New England, and also studied in Paris. A member of the Junior League, she made her debut in Baltimore in 1927.
Frances and Ogden were the parents of daughters Linell and Isabel. He passed in 1971 of complications of surgery to fight kidney failure, including a stroke and pneumonia.
Both before and after their marriage, Frances and her husband carried on an extensive correspondence. Nash wooed her with many an ardent letter (which their daughter has chronicled in a book, but which was published without Frances' replies which she had requested destroyed).
During World War II, she knitted and rolled bandages and worked as a Red Cross volunteer. An enthusiastic reader, Mrs. Nash had a keen interest in politics and world affairs. She was reading more than 20 books a week until several months before her death.
Mrs. Nash was born in Salisbury, Md., and attended Vassar College before returning to Baltimore, where she devoted her time to charitable causes. Frances's interests included support of the Morris A. Mechanic Theater, Center Stage, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Gallery. Her club memberships included the Mount Vernon Club and the Elkridge Club. Memorial contributions were suggested to the Leukemia Research Fund of the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
What shall I do
With so-and-so?
She won't say yes
And she won't say no.
Of their marriage he wrote:
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died at her home of myelodysplasia, a blood disorder. She was 88.
Mrs. Nash was the granddaughter of Maryland Gov. Elihu Jackson who served a term as governor from 1888 to 1892. She met her husband to be, then an advertising copywriter for Doubleday & Co., in the fall of 1928 at a dinner dance, and they were married in Baltimore's Church of the Redeemer in 1931, the same year Nash's first book of poetry, "Hard Lines," was published. Prior to this, she was educated at Calvert School and Roland Park Country School and graduated from the Great Barrington School in New England, and also studied in Paris. A member of the Junior League, she made her debut in Baltimore in 1927.
Frances and Ogden were the parents of daughters Linell and Isabel. He passed in 1971 of complications of surgery to fight kidney failure, including a stroke and pneumonia.
Both before and after their marriage, Frances and her husband carried on an extensive correspondence. Nash wooed her with many an ardent letter (which their daughter has chronicled in a book, but which was published without Frances' replies which she had requested destroyed).
During World War II, she knitted and rolled bandages and worked as a Red Cross volunteer. An enthusiastic reader, Mrs. Nash had a keen interest in politics and world affairs. She was reading more than 20 books a week until several months before her death.
Mrs. Nash was born in Salisbury, Md., and attended Vassar College before returning to Baltimore, where she devoted her time to charitable causes. Frances's interests included support of the Morris A. Mechanic Theater, Center Stage, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Gallery. Her club memberships included the Mount Vernon Club and the Elkridge Club. Memorial contributions were suggested to the Leukemia Research Fund of the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
Wife and muse of poet Ogden Nash. Of courting her, he wrote:
What shall I do
With so-and-so?
She won't say yes
And she won't say no.
Of their marriage he wrote:
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died at her home of myelodysplasia, a blood disorder. She was 88.
Mrs. Nash was the granddaughter of Maryland Gov. Elihu Jackson who served a term as governor from 1888 to 1892. She met her husband to be, then an advertising copywriter for Doubleday & Co., in the fall of 1928 at a dinner dance, and they were married in Baltimore's Church of the Redeemer in 1931, the same year Nash's first book of poetry, "Hard Lines," was published. Prior to this, she was educated at Calvert School and Roland Park Country School and graduated from the Great Barrington School in New England, and also studied in Paris. A member of the Junior League, she made her debut in Baltimore in 1927.
Frances and Ogden were the parents of daughters Linell and Isabel. He passed in 1971 of complications of surgery to fight kidney failure, including a stroke and pneumonia.
Both before and after their marriage, Frances and her husband carried on an extensive correspondence. Nash wooed her with many an ardent letter (which their daughter has chronicled in a book, but which was published without Frances' replies which she had requested destroyed).
During World War II, she knitted and rolled bandages and worked as a Red Cross volunteer. An enthusiastic reader, Mrs. Nash had a keen interest in politics and world affairs. She was reading more than 20 books a week until several months before her death.
Mrs. Nash was born in Salisbury, Md., and attended Vassar College before returning to Baltimore, where she devoted her time to charitable causes. Frances's interests included support of the Morris A. Mechanic Theater, Center Stage, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Gallery. Her club memberships included the Mount Vernon Club and the Elkridge Club. Memorial contributions were suggested to the Leukemia Research Fund of the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
What shall I do
With so-and-so?
She won't say yes
And she won't say no.
Of their marriage he wrote:
To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.
Frances Leonard Nash, the widow of poet Ogden Nash, died at her home of myelodysplasia, a blood disorder. She was 88.
Mrs. Nash was the granddaughter of Maryland Gov. Elihu Jackson who served a term as governor from 1888 to 1892. She met her husband to be, then an advertising copywriter for Doubleday & Co., in the fall of 1928 at a dinner dance, and they were married in Baltimore's Church of the Redeemer in 1931, the same year Nash's first book of poetry, "Hard Lines," was published. Prior to this, she was educated at Calvert School and Roland Park Country School and graduated from the Great Barrington School in New England, and also studied in Paris. A member of the Junior League, she made her debut in Baltimore in 1927.
Frances and Ogden were the parents of daughters Linell and Isabel. He passed in 1971 of complications of surgery to fight kidney failure, including a stroke and pneumonia.
Both before and after their marriage, Frances and her husband carried on an extensive correspondence. Nash wooed her with many an ardent letter (which their daughter has chronicled in a book, but which was published without Frances' replies which she had requested destroyed).
During World War II, she knitted and rolled bandages and worked as a Red Cross volunteer. An enthusiastic reader, Mrs. Nash had a keen interest in politics and world affairs. She was reading more than 20 books a week until several months before her death.
Mrs. Nash was born in Salisbury, Md., and attended Vassar College before returning to Baltimore, where she devoted her time to charitable causes. Frances's interests included support of the Morris A. Mechanic Theater, Center Stage, the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Walters Art Gallery. Her club memberships included the Mount Vernon Club and the Elkridge Club. Memorial contributions were suggested to the Leukemia Research Fund of the University of Maryland Cancer Center.
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