Margaret Driscoll, co-Publisher of Tidings Magazine; at 59

[Printed in the Boston Globe, Sunday, April 18, 1993]

Margaret (Moore) Driscoll, a longtime activist in Westerly community affairs and co-publisher of Tidings, a popular Rhode Island magazine, died Friday of ovarian cancer at her home. She was 59.

Born in Westerly, Mrs. Driscoll anttended Concord Academy before graduating from Westover School in Middlebury, Conn., in 1952. She was also a graduate of Pine Manor Junior College in 1966 and later did graduate work at the New York School of Interior Design.

Before her marriage in 1964, Mrs. Driscoll was casting director for Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency in New York City.

She was also assistant to the art director of Family Circle magazine in New York from 1960 to 1962 and was associate editor in the Young Perfectionists section of Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine.

In 1983, Mrs. Driscoll and her husband, Robert, started Tidings, a seasonal magazine covering the people, places, and history of coastal Rhode Island and southeastern Connecticut.

More recently, Mrs. Driscoll served as executive director of Literacy Volunteers of America's Washington County affiliate in Rhode Island and was on the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Library in Westerly and the Old Town Hall Museum Corp.

She also was on the membership committee of the Southeastern Connecticut Chamber of Commerce; a lifelong member of the Westerly Hospital Auxiliary and a longtime member of the Misquamicut Club of Watch Hill.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Driscoll leaves four daughters, Margaret of Southport, Conn., Eleanor of Narragansett, R.I., Anne of New York City, and Catherine of Westerly; Two sisters, Catherine of Jaffrey, NH, and Anne Langdon of Tenafly, N.J.; and a brother, Geoffrey Moore of Brooklyn, PA.

A funeral Mass will be said tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. in St. Pius Church in Westerly. Burial will be in St. Sebastian Cemetery in Westerly.