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rs. Evelyn Maddox Pope of Washington, DC and Middleburg, VA died on Thursday, April 17, at her home in Middleburg. Her final days were shared in the company of all her children and grandchildren. The family would like to extend their gratitude to Hospice for all their loving care and support. A kind, gracious and passionate woman, she leaves a legacy of perpetual improvement, to oneself and to the world we share. Born February 5, 1929 in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of Captain Charles Hamilton Maddox, USN, and Isabel (Ramage) Maddox of Washington, DC. She was a graduate of Potomac School, Mount Vernon Seminary and Briarcliff College. She first married George Anthony Horkan, Jr., son of Maj. Gen. George Anthony Horkan and Mary (Thompson) Horkan. They moved to Upperville and attended Trinity Episcopal Church, where she became president of its women’s guild. She was actively ahead of her time with introducing yoga classes to the Parish Hall. She later moved to Middleburg and married Dr. Robert E. McConnell, Jr. She worked briefly for two interior designers before opening her own design business Evelyn McConnell, Inc. She was appointed to the Town of Middleburg Planning Commission and was chairman until 1971. She was on the vestry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. In 1981, she purchased a townhouse in Washington, dividing her life between the city and country. She resumed her involvement with the Washington National Cathedral and the National Symphony Orchestra. She was an environmentalist on both the local and global levels. She attended The Aspen Institute, raised funds for Ted Turner’s Better
Janet Hitchen Photography 102 Tilthammer Mill Road Boyce, Va. 22620 540.837.9846 • janeth@crosslink.net World Society and was a trustee for North America with the United Religions Initiative (URI). With her third husband, Edward Julius Pope, Jr., she became a community organizer to successfully block the proposed Walt Disney theme park threat. She continued to work for a better world, supporting the efforts by other organizations to abolish nuclear weapons and work for peace. She was a member of the Sulgrave Club, the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America, the Fauquier and Loudoun Garden Club and an Officer of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. She leaves four children, Kathryn H. Willis of Livingston, TX, Elizabeth H. Horkan of Annapolis MD, Anne H. Horkan of Miami, FL, and George A. Horkan III, of Upperville, VA. She also leaves six grandchildren, Alison Campbell of Washington DC, Joshua Ryan of Upperville, VA, James Ryan of Miami, FL, Emily Moody of Boulder, CO, Anthony Horkan and Brittany Horkan of Upperville VA. She will be fondly remembered by her children and grandchildren for her grace and generosity, her keen intelligence, her depth of spirit, her impeccable taste, her exquisite inner and outer beauty and her loving passion for life and all living creatures. She was gifted with a compassionate and strong nature to be of service to those in need; a desire for continuous learning and growth; an understanding of the spiritual essence in life and the talent to create beautiful environments. Her ease of expression for the inner light she carried inside touched everyone she met. She will be buried next to her beloved husband, Commander Edward J. Pope, Jr. in Arlington National Cemetery. The family requests donations be made to the Piedmont Environmental Council in her memory.
Eileen Mackey Hackman
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ileen Mackey Hackman, a former co-owner of the New Jersey based Hatco Chemical Company who later raised and bred thoroughbred races horses in Middleburg, Virginia, died June 9 at home in Middleburg. She was 93. Eileen Mackey Hackman was born Oct. 7, 1920 in a taxi as her mother, Leona Braun Mackey, and father, Lawrence G. Mackey, made their way on the ferry from Jersey City, N.J. to a hospital in Manhattan. Her birth certificate reads as New York City thanks to a policeman who delivered her on board the same Hudson River crossing. It was a point of conversation throughout her life. A 1936 graduate of Flemington High School in New Jersey, she attended Rutgers University. On August 16, 1940 she married William Moyer Hackman, a chemist, in Sommerville, N.J. During World War II the couple lived in the Washington, D. C. area while Mr . Hackman worked with the War Production Board. It was during this time when they first visited the horse country of Virginia. Early in 1944, the Hackmans moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee where Mr. Hackman worked on the Manhattan Project. In 1950, Mr. Hackman founded the Hatco Chemical Company, which he sold to W. R. Grace and Company in 1959. In 1960, Mr. and Mrs. Hackman bought Orange Hill Farm in Middleburg andpurchased five yearlings at the Saratoga Sales that August. The couple divorced in 1963. Mrs. Hackman maintained her interest in horse racing, under
the name of Windward Farm. Her horse, Guardian Angel, won the Monmouth National Hurdle Stakes and the Saratoga National Hurdle Stakes in 1962 as a steeplechase horse and was the first son of the great international racehorse and sire Ribot to win a stakes race in the United States. She continued to be involved in breeding and racing flat and steeplechase horses in Virginia and Maryland until she died. At the original Loudoun Memorial Hospital on Cornwall Street in Leesburg, Mrs. Hackman volunteered for more than thirty years as a Pink Lady greeting patients, delivering mail and flowers. As a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg, she worked on the annual Rummage Sale as well as the Christmas Shop. She helped to stitch the church’s colorful needlepoint kneelers. And, during the mid-1960s, she was instrumental in facilitating the purchase of the adjacent Parish House. In addition, Mrs. Hackman served with the community effort known as Middleburg FISH an ecumenical volunteer ministry that provides medical and rental assistance, and assistance with utilities in and around the Middleburg community. In addition, volunteers assist with transportation to medical appointment. Her additional volunteer projects included the Middleburg Library Advisory Board and the Middleburg Community Center. She was also a long time member of the Middleburg Garden Club and also served as president. Survivors include her son, James M. Hackman of Middleburg, a brother Lawrence G. Mackey of Sergeantsville, New Jersey, granddaughter Elizabeth Hackman Godwin of Atlanta and two great grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be sent to the Building Maintence Fund of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, PO Box 306 Middleburg, Virginia 20118.