Eleanor Doris Stoy was a very close friend of Alice Silverman in the later years of high school and when they were at UC Berkeley 1916-1918.
Eleanor was one of two daughters of Samuel Butterworth Stoy and his wife Anna Maude Jones Stoy. She was born November 12, 1896 in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in San Francisco attended Miss Murison’s School for Girls with Alice Silverman and her sister Anna Monica Stoy in San Francisco.
She loved writing and began writing for publication just after high school, for the WASP and other newspapers.
She was married in San Francisco, on Jan 7 1923, to Irving Mckenny Reed and moved with him to Alaska after the birth of her first child. They had two children, Anna B. “Nancy” Reed and Irving Stoy Reed. Another daughter, Cynthia Louise Reed, was Irving’s daughter by his first wife.
I don’t think Eleanor and Alice continued their friendship much after Eleanor moved to Alaska. Eleanor did continue to write and do some painting as well.
She died 5 November 1973 in Fairbanks Alaska.
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