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Mary Higgins Porsche September 15,1912 – December 20, 2007 Mary Higgins Porsche, long-time resident of New Canaan, CT since 1958, and Summer resident of Lake Pleasant, NY, died at the Norwalk Hospital on Thursday, December 20, 2007. She slipped away peacefully with her two children, Lynn and Robert, at her side. She had been hospitalized for two weeks prior and had just undergone surgery the previous week. Mary Porsche was born Mary Lyle Higgins on September 15, 1912. She was the second of four children to Eva Hawley Meyrowitz and Frederick Lyle Higgins. Her maternal grandfather, Emile Bruno Meyrowitz (“E. B. M”) was the world-renowned optician, who made and developed the opthalmometer, tonometer and discovered and developed the machine to grind lenses to prescription. George Eastman, founder of the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, NY hired her father, Frederick, where they both met at M.I.T. Fred became General Manager of the Hawkeye Camera Lens Division at Eastman Kodak in Rochester. Mary had three other siblings. They were her older sister, Evelyn and younger brothers, John and Howard. They vacationed at their beloved Adirondack camp, “Cub’s Cove” next to E. B. M’s “Bearhurst,” one of the great Adirondack camps located in Lake Pleasant, NY. Her youngest brother, Howard, was a B-52 fighter pilot in WWII. He died at age 27. John Higgins, of Daytona Beach, FL, died in 1967 at age 50 and Evelyn passed away in 2005 at 92 years. Mary attended Sweet Briar College in Lynchburg, VA and the University of Rochester where she studied Art. After moving to New York City, she met Gilbert Louis Porsche, from Holyoke, MA and they were married in 1939. Gilbert, an accomplished jazz pianist, worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for 43 years before retiring. He passed away in 1998 at age 89 and Mary’s remains will join Gilberts’ at Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, CT. Mary was an active member of the New Canaan Red Cross for over twenty-five years. She became a member of the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan when its’ services were held at the Masonic Temple on Main Street. Mary and her husband, Gil, loved to travel and cruised extensively in their later years. For many years, Mary returned with family and friends to their Lake Pleasant camp, “The Coop”, which she and her sister had inherited from their Aunt. Mary had recently celebrated her 95th birthday with the surrounding love of her family and friends from the New Canaan Inn, where she resided over the last year and a half. Mary had recently moved to The Greens at Cannondale, where she lived for only one month. Lynn Maigret Porsche, her daughter, of Pound Ridge, NY and son, Robert Hawley Porsche of Wyckoff, New Jersey survive Mary, who had three lovely grandchildren. They are: Matthew Schultz, son of Lynn Porsche; Brian Porsche and Kimberly Porsche, son and daughter of Bob and daughter-in-law, Barbara Inge Porsche. There was a graveside burial and A Celebration of Life that followed at the First Presbyterian Church, New Canaan, CT. on January 25th. Donations are to be made to the Lake Pleasant-Sacandaga Association, LPSA, PO Box 164, Speculator, NY 12164-0164.
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