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Minnette Bickel dies
I was shocked and saddened to learn today that Minnette had passed away. No one had yet informed me. A lovely lady, Minnette was one of my earliest clients and a big supporter of Stroke of Genius. She will be missed!
A search on Ancestry.com resulted in the obituary that follows:
Minnette Duffy Bickel
April 21, 2007 - 5:18PM
Minnette Duffy Bickel, a life-long careerist in portrait painting and the fine arts, died suddenly of heart failure at Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa., on March 31, 2007.
A native of New Bern, Mrs. Bickel was the daughter of Minnette Chapman Duffy, pioneering North Carolina historic preservationist, and Dr. Richard Nixon Duffy, a prominent surgeon of New Bern.
After meeting her future husband at a dance at the Trent Pines Club in 1945, she was married in 1947 to the late William Croft Bickel (1918-2002), a native Pittsburgher, decorated World War II Marine fighter pilot, Gulf Oil Corporation executive and managing director of Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts.
On the move numerous times with her corporate family until settling permanently in her husband
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