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Notes for Mary Willa WILKINSON
Record, The (Hackensack, NJ) - October 3, 2001
Deceased Name: MARY STREEP, MOTHER OF MERYL
Mary Wilkinson Streep, an artist, former art editor, and mother of Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep, has died. She was 86.
She died Saturday at New York Hospital, Cornell Medical Center, of complications from heart disease, according to her son, Dana Streep.
She and her husband of 60 years, Harry Streep Jr., made their home in Stamford and also lived for a time in Mystic.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 30, 1915, she moved with her family to Madison, N.J. After high school, she worked as an art director at Bell Labs during World War II and later studied at the Arts Students League in New York City. She then worked as a commercial artist and art editor for House Furnishings, a Fairchild publication.
Her family said in a statement that her "lively, humorous line drawings were as stylish and ebullient as her conversation."
She was active in many volunteer organizations including Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey, Mystic Seaport, Pequotsepos Nature Center, Mystic Garden Club, and Chester Village West retirement community.
In addition to her husband, son Dana, and daughter, Meryl, she also is survived by a son Harry Streep III, two brothers, and 10 grandchildren.
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