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Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry

May 18, 2023

Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry (September 18, 1906 – April 8, 1998) was an American writer and convert to the Baháʼí Faith. After mostly being raised by her grandparents, her grandfather in particular serving in the Union Army during the civil war, she joined the religion at age 35 and around the same time began also writing short fiction, eventually having a long career writing for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. In the religion, her service as a speaker was wide-ranging, and soon she advanced from position to position in the religion as first an Auxiliary Board member and then a Continental Counselor and then one serving at the International Teaching Centre – the highest appointed positions of the religion during her later years. Meanwhile, she was a successful writer with almost 20 years of continuous annual appearance in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and almost half her stories were also anthologized even as late as 2012.

Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry
Born(1906-09-18)September 18, 1906
DiedApril 8, 1998(1998-04-08) (aged 91)
OccupationWriter

Early life

Born into the Foose/Foos family, her grandfather claimed the "e" was added by a Union Army clerk to his name.[1]: p6  Through her grandmother she claimed relation to President Zachary Taylor.[1]: p7  However the family was as proud of traveling preacher John Taylor. In her autobiography Mayberry highlights and praises her aunt Charlotte-Mariah whom her exasperated grandmother would occasionally compare her to.[1]: pp5-6  Her feisty personality grew up after an era rife with family based abuse of women save in the case of her grandparents. They lived along the Wabash River in Indiana. The family moved to Missouri where the family spent many years. There is a Foose Missouri "intersection" in the vicinity which might have been the site of the grandfather's store.[1]: p55 [2]

Her mother Myrtle married at 16 to a 27-year-old Scot, Bill Wilson, Mayberry's father.[1]: pp14–15  They lived in Lebanon, Missouri, then the town of Sleeper on the other side of Lebanon from her grandparents. Myrtle eventually divorced him and the family held rumors that father Bill tried to kidnap baby Florence and was caught by her grandfather. Bill was a train station agent.

The family then moved to Texas in Deaf Smith County. Her mother married "a cowboy" while she was raised by her grandparents. Oddly Mayberry remembers her mother calling her "Sister"[1]: for example pp. 33, 35, 36…  But this too was a short lived marriage.[1]: p38  Then the mother and daughter moved to California to wed Wilbur Walton and the family rented out rooms in San Francisco.[1]: p43  They alternated housing a couple times and were still living San Francisco in 1912 near the Golden Gate Park Panhandle.[1]: p48  The family had connection to an unnamed Protestant denomination and was very anti-catholic.[1]: p66 

Mayberry recalls an event in her autobiography in October 1912 when she was about 6 yrs old. While in the park she encountered a group who tried to invite her to meet some referred to as "Him" near a portal of the park – she later came to believe this to have been people who had accompanied ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, then head of the Baháʼí Faith, whose presence at the park in October 1912 was confirmed. However she could not confirm enough details to prove it specifically. But she recalled them as "My people" though she was called away by her mother even if the welcome was warm.[1]: pp50-51 

However they soon went back to Missouri where her grandparents had returned and mother went on to work in St. Louis at the Famous-Barr department store but shortly she returned to live with Wilbur while Florence stayed on with her grandparents[1]: p52  until she had a little brother and the whole family moved to Waverly, Missouri. The family became friends several African-Americans: Ollie, a neighboring African-American, and insisted an African-American family eat with them at their kitchen table. There was a "visit" from the social ladies of the town who communicated to them that the norm in the area was in favor of maintaining segregated eating – and her grandfather quipped back, as Mayberry recalled, "Tell your menfolks this. As a boy I fought in the Civil War for Abe Lincoln. The idee was to fix things so black folks are free to be like God wanted 'em to be. Free and equal. A colored man or woman is as good as Becky'n me. In my house they eat at my table, because I eat at my table. And tell your menfolks this, too. I keep a loaded shotgun under my bed. And the first man, or men, steps on my land I bought and paid for to force me or my woman to change how we treat folks on our property will get its full blast. And I reload fast. I thank you, Ladies, and good afternoon."[1]: p59  However Florence did not pursue the friendship with Ollie and was put off by her strangeness, but came to regret her lack of friendship in later years.

During her 8th year[1]: pp60, 62  the family was reunited and they moved to Oakland, California together arriving on her 9th birthday in 1915. She attended the Denman School for girls (see John Swett) and was a steady reader of books and magazines.[1]: pp62-3  She told her brother, Richard Walton,[3] of the mysterious meeting by the portal of the park and recalled going to the De Young Museum. And a search for a church for Sunday School was started around her 9th year.[1]: p67  A year later she tried Christian Scientist following her mother seeking to overcome her chronic asthma but didn't see a social fit for her as she advanced in studies there.[1]: p68  The first World War broke into her awareness in her 11th year followed by the Spanish flu though she and her family recovered, some neighbors didn't.[1]: p69 

At fourteen the family briefly moved to Indiana arriving in Newport of Hoosier County where her grandparents then lived.[1]: p71  She entered the eight grade there.[1]: p73  Then they moved to Fresno, California and during a spell of illness she began to seek God's guidance on what to believe.[1]: pp75-6 

There was another temporary separation of her parents and the kids went to stay with the grandparents in Newport. Florence went as a senior to high school in Indiana and also began to teach Sunday school in nursery class and had finished reading the entire Bible as part of her senior English class.[1]: p77  She was upset that the church's Sunday school taught that the Bible was literally true. She remembered particularly the Adam-and-Eve story being trouble and was "brought to a half" by the rendering of the story of Jonah. She confronted the local minister that she couldn't accept it as literal "And furthermore" she recalled saying "I will never join any church which leave out any people. Because I believe God made the whole world and all the people in it. I will only join a church which doesn't divide by denominations, color, heathens, nothing, just one for everyone. So I can't teach Sunday School class here any longer."[1]: p?? 

Encountering the Baháʼí faith

Next her family moved to live with a cousin near Santa Paula, California when Florence was 18 and initially she got a job teaching ballet but switched to joining the local newspaper as a 'society editor' reporter.[1]: pp80, 82  When she worked there a Baháʼí couple asked to have an article published on 'The unity of mankind'. However the editor's wife working at the newspaper took it from her after they left and tore it in half and threw it away; 'Baháʼís! Crazy kooks!' Florence later recalled her saying. She retrieved the papers and read them herself noting the informational meeting was going to be a C. E. Carpenter's home with a speaker from Los Angeles coming. Elizabeth Carpenter kept offering articles and despite they weren't published she and Florence became friends. During a break in the editor's wife presence Florence was able to get one piece in the paper and it continued after her return initially without comment. And news came a daughter was to marry a Persian, Sheikh Ali Yazdi, in 1926.[1]: pp82-3 [4][5]

Eventually the editor's wife asked Florence to do a piece on the religion. However Florence could not remember any details when or what she wrote when she wrote her autobiography. However see a newspaper story appeared only a few months later.[6]

Florence's mother and brother rejoined Wilbur Walton in Stockton, California. Around then her grandfather-cum-father died in Indiana. It was also around this time when the family met the Kanno Takisha Japanese family who it turned out later had met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in Oakland in 1912.[1]: p85  Soon after the family including Florence moved to Las Vegas around the time the Boulder Dam (later renamed Hoover Dam) was being built,[1]: p87  (roughly 1930–1935.) And then they moved to Reno, Nevada. Richard went to Los Angeles to attend an art school. At this time she had a Catholic friend but she couldn't reconcile down to a denomination that excluded others.[1]: p88 

Then the family moved to Hollywood, California while her brother was in art school and she had an under-study part in a play.[1]: p89  But lacking an economic connection they moved back to Santa Paula where she learned short-hand, and then she moved to Reno Nevada again.

Reno

Her spiritual search remained unfocused and unguided though she prayed for it. Soon she was working at the post office and met David Mayberry whom she married four weeks later.[1]: p91  His grandparents were Mormon converts but he had no great personal attachment to the denomination.[1]: p92  They were married July, 1935. Later while visiting her mother in Santa Paula, she and her mother engaged in conversation on a serious pursuit of religion and she recalled encountering the Baháʼí Faith to her mother.[1]: p93  They found the Carpenter family and went to a fireside informational meeting by the family's daughter-in-law, Marzieh Gail.[1]: pp93-4  This was the daughter of well known Baháʼí, Ali Kuli Khan.[1]: p131  Florence was not convinced on several points but left with a copy of "Bahaʼi Scriptures" but did not read it immediately – indeed she left it for two years.[1]: p94  In the meantime the Mayberry family moved outside of Reno into a new home and Elizabeth Carpenter surprised her with a visit having directions from her husband. Carpenter was returning from attending US Baháʼí national convention and after the visit she gave a brief review of a random page. A few months later her husband reported a Baháʼí took a job at the post office and that a traveling Bahaʼi speaker needed help finding a venue in Reno for a talk she would give – this was Mamie Seto. The Mayberry's assisted and appreciated Seto and her talk. Following it they bought a copy of Bahaʼu'lláh and the New Era but it was not a memory of importance that they read it and commented on reading it.[1]: p97  This might have been noted in the June 1939 edition of Baháʼí News.[7] A few months earlier Florence published her first known piece – a Christmas story – in Feb 1939 but was thought to have been a man.[8]

Baháʼí Helen Grifting moved to Reno and invited the Mayberrys over to dinner. She became a companion on many family outings and through her presence the Mayberrys began to read their now two Baháʼí books but did not think had to belong to a religion.[1]: p98  They attended Helen's fireside talks regularly along with her mother and brother and his new wife. They heard presentations by returning pilgrims and international travelers. Mayberry recalled one night that based on her conversation someone at a bar asked her when she had joined the religion and then finding she hadn't quizzed her what was wrong with it that she hadn't? She was guilty she had been at a bar too even if she was a casual social "drinker". After some time she interrupted her day and drove off in the car to demand a "declaration card" from Helen at her work but Helen urged caution – "Are you sure?"[1]: p99  She waited.[1]: p100  In Sept 1939 Helen notes in Baháʼí News that there were "excellent contacts", "many friends", and three had gone to the Geyersville Summer school, (later moved and named the Bosch Baháʼí School).[9]

The Mayberry's moved from an apartment near a golf course to a cottage – around the same time Helen had to downsize her apartment. Wanting to be of assistance and enjoying the meetings the Mayberry's took out a wall so they could have one big room and volunteered to host meetings.[1]: p101  Mayberry wrestled over personally praying if mostly they were "gimme" prayers vs the given Baháʼí prayers which were for people in general and full of "eloquent imagery, strange to the tongue".[1]: p101  In 1940 Florence recalled going on a trip and stopping in Wilmette and seeing the House of Worship there under construction.[1]: p123  This might have been her trip to see F.D. Roosevelt at the democratic national convention – she attended.[10]

Then there was an incident reported in Mayberry's autobiography.[1]: pp102–3  Her mother had befriended an African American lady – the couple had been wakened by police and arrested her husband all with rough treatment and language normal of the day. The next day his employer defended his character and he was released. The next day Florence called the Mayor's office, then the chief of police and arguments with them equated prejudice with anti-American behavior, asking that an apology be made public, and the couple received an apology. As a result, Florence was asked to speak at the local AME church. She settled on the story recalling Ollie to tell her audience and her sorrow at not fulfilling a friendship with her – it was a healing for her too.

Florence then went through an experience May 1941.[1]: p104  She felt an intense need to clean her home. She did a good job – and then found herself very upset and (in mid yell) called herself a hypocrite for not joining the Baháʼí Faith. She called her husband and announced she was joining the religion. He said "when you ask for your membership card, ask for two." That night her brother's family also joined the religion. The next morning her mother did as well. In October Baháʼí News noted the Reno community had 6 adults (so Helen plus these five) and hoped to elect an assembly soon.[11] The community had been founded a decade earlier when Gertrude Frazier first moved to Reno.[12] Seven adults were noted in Oct 1942.[13] with the arrival of Eleanor Adler in July.[14] Further meetings were held and Mayberry says she gained a greater depth of appreciation of the history of the religion in the East and the West. The declaration of Robert Takeshi Imagire in 1942 at the Mayberry home made the 9th member of the community and a Local Spiritual Assembly, the foundational administrative institution of the religion, was elected.[15][16] Later Imagire was inspired by one of Florence's poems to make a painting.[17] Gladys was chair of the assembly and Florence secretary by December 1944.[18] In 1945 Florence was on the regional committee.[19]

The US entered World War II in December and both brother and husband were drafted – her brother was found to have a birth defect and was excused from service.[1]: p105  Her husband asked for non-combatant status as a Baháʼís and was assigned to the Army Postal Field Service.

David Mayberry was on a regional committee by July 1943.[20]

Florence got a job with the US Employment Service.[1]: p105  November Florence was the Fair Employment Practices Committee consultant in the area.[21] Together they had their first child March 24, 1945. Fireside gatherings grew larger. When the Reno community of Bahaʼis reached nine they elected their first assembly. Assembly noted in 1947.[22]

Santa Paula

With discharge from the military the family moved to Santa Paula though she found that the Carpenters had moved away.[1]: p107  Both Mayberry's found jobs in the shifting economy and their son Michael was minded by grandmother Myrtle. Florence became a secretary-manager of the Chamber of Commerce when the manager left. The Santa Paula community was highly agricultural and had a significant population of immigrant farm workers.[1]: p108  She worked with directors of the Chamber of Commerce to bring together the white and Latino communities into a united Fiesta Parade rather than the traditional segregated practice. And they found that another Baháʼí family in the area – the children of the first Japanese Baháʼís.[1]: p109 

In the fall of 1945 she had her first poem published – it was in Common Ground magazine and was called "Adam's Black Boy" was about a black man oppressed and begging – the poem ran over a page.[23]

A notice in the newspaper has her giving a talk November 1946 in Los Angeles at their Baháʼí Center.[24] In the coming years both her writing and talks were gathering attention.

Florence was noticeable next as the chair of the Southern California/Arizona regional committee of Baháʼís in 1947,[25] and also gave talks at the LA Baháʼí Center.[26] Both Mayberry's served on the western states committee of 1949.[27] She was also the secretary of the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce in 1948.[28] Florence increasingly began to give talks but soon found she had a medical condition arise. It proved to be an enormous test after the initial operation which developed into experiences of great pain and multiple operations over two years.[1]: pp112-119  Following this she applied to the University of California at Los Angeles.[1]: p119  She says she did well in philosophy.[1]: p121  She also began to take up poetry as an exploration of faith.[1]: p120 

In 1950 she was mentioned having published a novel.[29] She also gave a talk at the LA Center for Ridván, a pivotal holy day in the Baháʼí calendar.[30]

She wrestled with understanding Shoghi Effendi's leadership as head of the religion when coming out of her Protestant Christian context the Popes were considered trouble. Despite ʻAbdu'l-Bahá being an even higher leader of the religion, she didn't have a problem with that because she saw him as the ultimate grandfather.[1]: p120  She had begun and continued to focus on the special station of the Guardianship held by Shoghi Effendi and gained an emotional attachment and decided to write to him.[1]: p120-1  She outlined her recent activity, trials and achievements. The response encouraged her public speaking as well as study of the Baháʼí teachings themselves; and he commented that there was "a real lack in the Cause of people who know the teachings thoroughly, especially the deeper truths."[1]: p121 

Florence debated her pursuit of a college degree vs her role in public speaking and worried, feeling also that her studies of the religions' teachings had been impatient and was attracted to the idea of having the teachings "imbedded" into her awareness.[1]: p121  She decided to drop her pursuit of a degree and focused on a close study of the Writings and be able to respond to any call for a speaker for the religion.

She gave a talk she gave for World Religion Day in Fresno in 1952.[31] She also published a short story – "Kiko"[32] which was collected in the best fiction of 1953.[33]

Traveling speaker and writer on the side

US South, Convention and Conference

She gave a talk in January 1953 at the LA center[34] and in Fresno for Ridvan, 1953.[35] In early Spring of 1953 a letter arrived from the US National Spiritual Assembly asking her if she could "undertake a fortnight's teaching trip through several Southern States."(these are Florence's words as she recalled in her autobiography.)[1]: p122 And she had also given a talk at the Geyersville Bahaʼi Summer School.[1]: p122  She recognized one of the students of the class as signing the letter asking for the trip and she soon headed off by train. She felt it went well but offers no details in her autobiography other than the cultural encounter with Southern warmth on the one hand and segregation on the other. Following the trip she was able to attend the national convention for the 1953 jubilee of the declaration of Baháʼu'lláh's first revelatory experience (in the Síyáh-Chál) and one of the conferences on the spread of the religion held May 2, 1953.[1]: p124  The American Conference also featured a chance to meet Shoghi Effendi's wife, Rúhíyyih Khanum, then a newly appointed Hand of the Cause. She reflected on stories of her from her meeting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá at 2 yrs old and exploits of her "youthful daring, originality of thought, her profound love of nature and animals, and her great courage in teaching."[1]: p123  This was also her chance to see the finished House of Worship she had seen more than a decade earlier. The convention and conference were held at Chicago's Medinah Temple. Florence attended as a guest, not a delegate. She was strongly affected by the multi-racial delegates and the talks. Several Hands of the Cause attended and the audience rose to their feet when Ruhiyyih Khanum was introduced to speak.[1]: p124  Afterwards, in divisions of about 1600 people at a time, painted portraits of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh were viewed and from which she recalled the personal trials the young men were to go through and their personal refinement.

Western Canada

Upon her return home the family business adjusted and Florence became the office clerk for the business. About the same time a letter arrived from the NSA of Canada asking her for a speaking trip in Western Canada for a month. On presenting the letter to her husband she offered to decline the invitation. He recounted a promise he had made to God that if she lived "we would dedicate your whole life to the service of His Cause. So if you don't go to Canada I'll have to break my promise to God."[1]: p125 

She observed a lot of similarities between the Americans and Canadians, while also distinctions of language details and the prevalence of hot tea. She noted both had "shoved aside the Indian owners of the land, a problem both were still struggling to amend."[1]: p126  She says in her autobiography some of her talks were over kitchen tables and some in halls and universities. She commented on her own now-perceived slow progress to the religion "I could now be grateful for my own slow entry; I could understand and empathize with them.… Some, indeed, appeared as hard-headed, excuse-making as I had been during my search for Truth.… and I would never be able to spiritual boast about my perceptions."[1]: p126  Her Canadian travels went from British Columbia to Manitoba where she met Angus Cowan, later a Counsellor she served with. She returned through the northwest states in abbreviated version some of which were noted in newspapers.[36][37]

Eastern Canada

Upon return to Santa Paula and soon after arriving the Canadian assembly asked her for a similar tour of Eastern Canada which her family supported.[1]: p127  Most stops this time were one-night stops and most travel was by bus. Often talks were variously from lunch time on to various afternoon events then a break until evening. Then the next day on to the next stop. The pace taxed her strength and she recalled climbing bus steps "crab-like", hauling her projector and slide collection.[1]: p127  During the trip in Toronto one audience member challenged her on the topic of the Anti-Christ and it was the first time she had had the question from the public. Her answer silenced him and he sat down – she had referred to "…anyone, even a Christian declaring fealty to Jesus Christ, who denies that [returned] Holy Spirit is Anti-Christ. Baháʼís believe Baháʼu'lláh is that Return."[1]: p128 

She continued on to Montreal remarking it was especially the region of the home of Ruhiyyih Khanum and where ʻAbdu'l-Bahá visited and Shoghi Effendi in his authority as head of the religion designating the Maxwell home as a national shrine.[1]: p128  News reached her in 1954[38] of the death of Hand of the Cause Dorothy Beecher Baker who had died the year before. To Mayberry Backer seemed to inspire her all the more and recalled hearing her voice "Spirit is never lost, it persists evanescent, seeking open vessels. Irresistibly it flows into any ready receptor, adding spirit unto spirit."[1]: p128 

Then flying onward to Prince Edward Island there was a greater sense of her being seen as a foreigner – she was told even mainland Canadians were called foreigners and when she arrived at the airport no one appeared to be there to greet her.[1]: p129  Others waiting turned out to be waiting for her though they thought she would be gray-haired and she was young (at 47.) Then she did not feel like a foreigner and being welcomed into various groups save for an altercation from a returned logger whose regular bathroom had been assigned to her use as the only female guest of the hotel.[1]: p130  A note her talk made the local papers, (though it mistakenly assigns the date to 1952.)[39]

From there she went south to Boston, then Washington, D.C., and Alexandria VA and there met Ali-Kuli Khan, father of the Marzieh who had given her her first fireside, Mariam Haney, Paul Haney then Chair of the US National Assembly in February 1954[1]: p131  just before he was appointed as a Hand of the Cause. She also made it to Wilmington Delaware,[40] Baltimore Maryland,[41] and Prescott Arizona on the way home.[42]

Auxiliary Board for the Americas

Upon return to Santa Paula she was informed that as the elected delegate to the national convention had moved away she as runner-up, and was now the delegate.[1]: p131 

At first thinking she would end the first night of the convention early being weary from her travels she changed her mind when it was brought to her attention that the three Hands responsible for North America were to speak and their nine appointments of their new auxiliary assistants to be announced.[43] She was shocked to hear her name as the fourth on their list.[1]: p132  She seemed to not be well known in the auditorium and went to the podium to introduce herself to Horace Holley.[1]: p132  The Americas (North and South) were split into 9 regions for the auxiliary board and there would be no salary, minimal travel expenses, and they were to avoid any sense of appearing to be clergy. Her region included Western Canada, the US from the Pacific to the Mississippi River plus Alaska and Hawaii.[1]: p133  She began to study more intensively and struggled between warming to the encouragement and the warnings of ego in the writings of the religion.[1]: p134  Eventually she also learned that it was excessive to spend "too much time and emotional strength over self-guilt and recriminations."[1]: p134  By August she was on the program at Geyserville Baháʼí School.[44] After the conference she began a tour that gradually grew into a widespread journey - leaving Chicago heading west and variously north or south, then north along the Pacific coast with occasional visits to the Atlantic and deep south.[1]: p135  In the Fall she spoke in Alberta Canada[45] Montana,[46] as well as Spokane, Washington,[47] She was on KXLF-TV and KBOW radio in Montana.[48] An updated on her travels in February noted she had already been in Montana, Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, with Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Colorado and Wyoming coming up.[49]

March 21, 1954, Florence Mayberry was on a panel of Baha'is on the Church Women's News, A Radio Program, by Ruth S. Norman, in West Virginia.[50]

The rest of the 50s and pilgrimage

Trips

In January[51] and in February[52] Mayberry went to Oregon to give a talk, then California.[53] In March she started in Albuquerque,[54] and then during Baháʼí Naw Ruz (the new year day of the Baháʼí calendar), she gave several talks around Gallup, New Mexico that made the local newspaper and went back to Albuquerque.[55] Then Utah[56] and Idaho[57] in April.

In June there is a notice Mayberry was meeting with the group United American Indians in Spokane,[58] one of the early official contacts between the Baháʼí Faith and Native Americans.

Her first trip to Alaska came July 1955.[1]: p146  Several meetings were held around Fairbanks in July.[59] In August she helped dedicate the national Baháʼí center for Alaska, a region recognized by the Baháʼís with its own national community.[60] Various local papers covered events.[61] Then she proceeded south through Canada for the summer school in Geyserville Baháʼí School.[62] Her list of travels by May in the Baháʼí News included across southern Canada to Manitoba, then south into North Dakota and then west to Washington, south and back across the western states from October through December.[63] In February and March she was in several meetings on various of the Hawaiian Islands and was interviewed on KMVI.[64] Then in later March she was in Milwaukee Wisconsin at a northern suburb Whitefish Bay,[65] and at the Milwaukee Baha'i center,[66] then north to Oshkosh.[67] By mid-May she was in a home in Galveston giving a talk.[68] By late May she was attending the national convention giving reports on what has happened.[69] By the summer of 1956 she was giving local talks closer to home[70] while she developed a traveling seminar,[71] and was aiding in coordinating urgent meetings in Seattle and Los Angeles.[72][73] Still she made a quick trip to Alaska.[74] before rounding out her trip among the lower 48 in the north-west.[75] before returning to her home are for one last talk in the season.[76]

Pilgrimage

On her most recent a visit to Billings, Montana, a local Baháʼí challenged her to plan to go on Baháʼí pilgrimage despite her economic limits.[1]: p135  She was soon offered pilgrimage for Fall 1956 but was delayed by the Suez Crisis. However, when that was over she was alerted while visiting Yakima, Washington by a call from her husband that she had been offered to go in April 1957.[1]: p136  In between she gave a talk in Eugene, Oregon.[77]

She encountered a family of Persian Baháʼís on the flight from Rome to Tel Aviv.[1]: p136  She was met at the door by Jesse Revel, then treasurer of the International Baháʼí Council, and Isobel Sabri, a pioneer from Africa then on pilgrimage herself, but she had missed the events of the first day of Ridván.[1]: p137  Isobel took notes during the pilgrimage and mentions Mayberry a few times.[78] From her autobiography it appears she commented that there is not a great deal of receptivity to the religion in America, asked about the role of auxiliary board members, and asked about childhood education practices. The next morning she found her other fellow pilgrims to be Alice Dudley and Sallie Saynor. They visited the archives which at the time were housed in three rooms of the Shrine of the Báb.[1]: p138  There she saw the passport photograph of Baháʼu'lláh, not knowing it existed previously.[1]: p139  Then she went to the Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá next door. Shoghi Effendi commented that from her report the Alaskan Baha'i community had been progressing well.[79]

That day's lunch was hosted by Ruhiyyih Khanum and then the ladies were invited over to Khanum and Effendi's current residence.[1]: p139  There she attended a tea reception and then went back to the Western Pilgrim House and then the group had dinner with Shoghi Effendi.[1]: p141  There were then successive visits to the prison and other sites of the pilgrimage, and last the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh as a group.[1]: p142  Then supper was served nearby. After dinner they visited the upper rooms of the Mansion of Bahjí.[1]: p143  The next day she visited the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh alone. They returned to the Haifa area for the ninth day of Ridván. A separate feast was held for the men and women and then all approached the Shrine of Báb and the tablet of visitation was said by Shoghi Effendi himself and the process repeated in the Shrine of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[1]: p144  In two more days Florence was the lone western Baháʼí left. She recalled Shoghi Effendi referred to a few open spots on the scroll of the Knights of Baháʼu'lláh, the first pioneers to a country for the religion, and highlighted the staunchness of Marion Jack. One evening, she recalled, Shoghi Effendi suggested her family "Scatter and teach"[1]: p153  and the consultation in the family later seemed to suggest mother Myrtle should pioneer.

She was soon leading some seminars back in the States in Montana and Wyoming in September with various levels of coverage on stations including KGVO.[80] Giving a talk and taught at Geyserville school in October[81] and before meeting in southern California in November.[82] Following the request of the Guardian the Hands developed boards for proclaiming the religion as well as protecting it from division – Florence continued on the one promoting encouraging engaging the public and stirring its members to engaging on issues.[83] In December she was at a Baha'i conference in Las Vegas.[84]

Winter in Alaska

Mayberry called her 1958 trip to Alaska "the most dramatic" of her trips in her autobiography.[1]: p146  The mid-winter trip began mild but a blizzard was in the way of the seaplane flying on toward Juneau and only got as far as Petersburg and would miss a scheduled TV appearance.[1]: p147  Instead she struck up a conversation with the hotel manager who, noting she was a previous manager of a Chamber of Commerce arranged to have her show the slides taken from her pilgrimage at the local Chamber meeting that night.[1]: p148  That meeting lead to a meeting at one of the homes of the members who also invited friends. One of them declared she would start a class on the religion – Charlotte Schwartz. The next day Mayberry flew on the Juneau, and then Sitka.[85] From there she went to Fairbanks.[1]: p148 [86] Then on to Barrow, Alaska where the temperature she reports was an unusually warm 39 °F below zero.[1]: p149  There she and the two local Baha'is had meetings including one of over 300 people[87] over the objections of the local Christian minister[1]: p149  The village had a long-standing Presbyterian presence.[88] They were limited to meeting with school children's mothers. The next day was a presentation at the local theatre.[1]: p150  From there she flew to Nome for a presentation and the Inuit returned the favor with a dance in her honor. Then she was on to the Aleutian Islands and then Kodiak Island.[1]: pp151-2  Then she returned to the lower 48 states, including briefly in Idaho.[89]

Summer in the South and West

That Summer she started close to home[90] and then she was in the outskirts of Dallas for the first time.[91] Then she was on to Louisiana including interviews on KWKH and KSLA-TV.[92] From there she made it to Green Acre Baháʼí School in October.[93] Battleboro NH in October[94] and Keene Teachers College in November[95] Texas.[96] Trips there were various into Spring 1959.[97]

That Spring she was elected to the National Assembly while continuing service as an Auxiliary Board member with Horace Holley, then also a Hand of the Cause.[1]: p153 [98][99] A four-month trip accompanied by her then 13 yr old son followed and then Myrtle undertook the "scatter" pioneering goal of a town in Switzerland at the age of 70.[1]: p154  She gave a talk in Texas[100] and twin events in Phoenix and Albuquerque[99] before leaving. While she was away a tape recording of a talk of hers was played locally in Santa Cruz.[101] On return she gave local talks back in California.[102]

To Mexico

A brief trip to Alaska in February 1960,[103] and she was back in California.[104] Hand of the Cause William Sears suggested an auxiliary board member living in Mexico or Central America would be helpful and the Mayberry family decided on Guadalajara, Mexico.[1]: p159  A brief period at Geyserville Baháʼí School was followed by trips to Latin American countries.[105] She was missed at a discussion of race issues the Baháʼís held in Wilmette, Ill.[106] She made trips visiting national assemblies by December 1960.[107] Then, after a return to Mexico City to consult with William Sears, she embarked on a trip through a couple cities in Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela in 1961. That year they were each to gain their own national assembly, (she was present for the Colombian national convention.)[1]: p158  On return from the trip she found she had been elected to the Mexican national assembly.[1]: p159 [108] She met the Pringle family at the San Blas Islands, specifically Ustupu, and was treated as an official representative of the religion by the island chief, or Cacique.[1]: pp163-5  A trip in the Fall of 1961 followed to Guatemala.[1]: p171 [109]

Still she managed a trip to Texas in February 1962,[110] and one stop in California in March.[111]

Moving and trips

In early 1963 she also traveled to Nicaragua where she met Hooper Dunbar in Bluefields,[1]: pp168-170 [112] followed by Belize,[113] and Honduras.[1]: p174  Then she attended the first international convention to elect the first Universal House of Justice as one of the national assembly members from Mexico,[1]: p184  (delegates that vote for the Universal House of Justice are the members of the National Assemblies,) and then joined the first Baháʼí World Congress in London.[1]: p186  Then she was in Texas in July[114] and Alaska in August.[115] She visited with the Kolstoe family[1]: p178  – John Kolstoe is a writer of several books related to the religion.[116]

The Mayberry family moved back to Santa Paula through the summer of 1963.[1]: p192  Part of the motivation for moving back might have been her son's burgeoning family. In three years should be described as a grandmother of three.[117]

Mayberry's first book, a children's book entitled "The Dachshunds of Mama Island", came out in late 1963.[118] Advertised as a Doubleday book for young readers[119] and was recommended in The Saturday Review.[120] The book is set in Sitka, Alaska.

In late 1963 she recalled hearing of the Assassination of President Kennedy while in one of the villages in the Yucatán.[1]: p182 [1]: p180 [121]

She gave a talk for World Religion Day in Chicago in mid January 1964,[122] and just a couple days later in Atlanta Ga,[123] and about two weeks later she was in Memphis TN,[124] and Texas in at the end of February for Ayyám-i-Há, a celebratory time for Baháʼís.[125] And Mayberry personally had something to celebrate - it was in February that her first of some 32 stories plus reprints would eventually published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, now the longest-running mystery fiction magazine, with "The Motion Picture in Mrs. Leister's Mind" (in the February 1964 issue).[126] She would continue to publish in the magazine into the 1990s. In 1965/6 her first story to be anthologized was "The Motion Picture in Mrs. Leister's Mind" in the Ellery Queen's 20th anniversary annual: 20 stories from Ellery Queen's mystery magazine.[117][127] She made a touch of news as one of the few female Ellery Queen mystery writers.[128] In between she spoke at Green Acre Baháʼí School in early April 1964,[129] and then in Battleboro, NH.[130] There's a break in her travels until Utah in November.[131]

She was back for the World Religion Day observance in January 1965 and then in February she was in Seattle.[132] Then she was in Appleton Wisconsin in April,[133] and nearby Oshkosh.[134] In May she was first at the US national convention.[135] In June she was in Bakersfield CA,[136] followed by an ABC radio program panel she was on with Hand of the Cause William Sears and others.[137] Then she was at the Davidson Baháʼí school (later it was renamed the Louhelen Baháʼí School) in Michigan through the rest of June.[138] Before October she was at a second session of the summer school of southern California[139] followed by a campaign in the area,[140] and in Seattle in September.[141] She was in Tustin California in October.[142] A poem of Mayberry's, World Anthem, was included in a youth compilation published by the US Baháʼí Publishing Trust.[143] In December she was back at the Davidson Baháʼí School.[144]

In early January 1966 she started off in Idaho.[145] Then she was at a national assembly coordinated week long series of events for World Religion Day and Mayberry closed the series Sunday evening.[146] Before March she was in Seattle.[147] But in March her mother Myrtle's health declined and she went into the hospital and died in a few days,[1]: pp192–4  on March 25, 1966.[148] In April Mayberry gave a talk in Fresno,[149] and May in Utah,[150] and Montana.[151] In later May she was in New Jersey at a meeting called by Hands of the Cause.[152]

1966 Sep gave a talk at the Los Angeles Baháʼí Center[153] and was profiled in the Fresno Bee.[117] In the profile she was noted as in the "Index of distinguished short stories, Best American short stories" and is quoted that to write, "one must be almost ruthless in cutting oneself off from others and giving time oneself time and privacy."[117] But she wasn't there for her writing achievements – she was in Fresno for "Baha'i Week" coordinated effort to present the religion to the public.[117]

For March 1967 she was filmed on an interfaith panel in southern California.[154] By Ridván she was at the US national convention.[155] At the anniversary observance of the House of Worship in September 1967 Mayberry introduced the Hands of the Cause[156] and in December at another meeting in San Francisco.[157]

Counsellor

1968 started out similarly to past year. In February she was in Montana,[158] a recording of her was used in Illinois in March,[159] and Spokane Washington in April.[160] In April she was in Seattle.[161] While she was working at a seasons school, perhaps Geyersville, she received a phone call about her appointment as a Continental Counselor for North America – the telegram went to her home address and her husband called her about it.[1]: pp195-6  Edna True, daughter of Hand of the Cause Corinne Knight True, and Lloyd Gardner were named with her.[162]

She was listed as the contact address for anyone wanting direct contact with the Counselors for North America.[163] From December 1968 to March 1969 she assisted at a series of conferences – Montreal, Oshawa, Canada, then Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, St Louis, (Phoenix), Saskatoon, Vancouver.[164] She attended the US national convention.[165] In June she was at a conference in Halifax[166] and in July she still gave a talk at the Geyersville Baha'i school,[167] and in August met with Native American Baha'is[168][169] and others[170] in Washington state. She was also later remembered in Alaska in 1969.[171]

In 1970 a talk of hers was done close to home in Santa Paula,[172] and then at the Geyersville school in September.[173] For Ridvan 1970 she was in Alaska.[174]

During the Oceanic and Continental Conferences series of 1970–71 she was assigned the one in Sapporo Japan (held early September)[175] and she found that a round the world trip was only a little more expensive.[1]: p195  She learned how to say a two line greeting in Japanese. While in Japan she visited Kyoto.[1]: p198  Then she went on to Hong Kong, Singapore,(200) Malaysia,(in Sept 1971,)[176] India(200-1), Iran, (where she managed a visit to the House of the Bab) (202) and made her third visit to she accomplished a 3-day pilgrimage.[1]: p204  Then to the UK (where she visited the grave, a shrine to Baha'is, of the Guardian)[1]: p205 

She returned and gave a talk in Los Angeles by January 1971.[177][self-published source] This was followed by a talk in Texas in November,[178] and then again back in her home area.[179] Shortly after the 1971 San Fernando earthquake William Sears was the central attraction of a conference in Los Angeles Florence appeared at.[180] She was in the Alaska national convention in 1971.[181] July–August she was at a conference in Santa Ana.[182]

In March 1972 the Counselors of North American held twin conferences in the US - Reno Nevada and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Florence hosted the Reno event assisted by Auxiliary Board members Margaret Gallagher, Velma Sherrill, Anthony Lease and Paul Pettit[183] Gallagher died in 2001.[184] Sherrill was herself appointed a counselor in 1973.[185] Lease served until 1986 and died in 2006.[186] Paul Pettit died in 2010.[187] April she attended the US national convention[188] and made it to the Alaskan one.[189] In October she gave a talk in Montana[190] and then Myrtle Beach SC[191] and then the dedication of the Louis Gregory Institute.[192]

In January 1973 she was a speaker at World Religion Day in San Francisco,[193] and in March was giving talks in her home area.[194] In May she attended the US national convention[195] and then went on to the world convention to elect the Universal House of Justice and noted there were 1017 delegates.(206) Returning from that she visited in Switzerland, then Canada. On return home she received a call that she had been appointed a Counsellor for the International Teaching Center[1]: pp206-7  (announced June 5.)[196] She visited there a few days later[197] and accomplished her move to live in Haifa just as the Yom Kippur War started, (October 6, 1973.)[1]: p208  After a brief stop in Alaska.[198]

In August 1974 she attended a meetings Kenya,[199] and in what was then called Rhodesia.[200] October 1976 she was in Germany at a Baha'i conference.[201] A biographical article was written about her as a writer was published in November.[202] January 1977 she was in Australia.[203] In October she was at a European conference.[204] December she was in Singapore.[205] Thailand in January 1977.[206]

From 1971 to 74 she published more original stories than any other time (averaging 3 a year) and was anthologized once (see bibliography below).

February 1977 a conference looking at promulgating the religion in Mexico also took place in Mérida with more than 2000 Baháʼís attending.[207] One third of the participants were indigenous believers from across Central America 150 of whom were Mayans.[208] Non-Baháʼí family members of the Indians were allowed to fully attend the meeting. Three Hands of the Cause were present - Paul Haney, Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir, and Enoch Olinga, as well as Counsellor Florence Mayberry. David made a trip to Utah.[209] Baháʼí News interviewed her about the institution in 1979.[210]

According to her biography, in 1982, for "unsteady health",[1]: p214  at age 77, both she and David asked to leave the active service as Counselor and she officially retired in 1983.[211] And David collapsed twice in the year or two after.[1]: pp214-5 

Retired

Initially they lived in Idaho but soon moved to the Conway MO area.(214) She gave a talk in Spokane that November.[212]

In 1984 she undertook her 18th trip to Alaska came in the spring.(146) Various of the trips had reached from the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea through central Alaska and the Aleutian and Kodiak Islands. She also met Indian and Inuit peoples and various attitudes they had either finding resonances in the roots of their cultures with the religion or in struggling with the confusion of "white man's ways". Newspaper coverage is found for her visit to Sitka in April.[213] In December she was at a Baha'i conference in Hawaii.[214]

Noted one of the "excellent writers somewhat less well-known" Ellery Queen writers, 1984.[215] From 1983–1987 mostly reprints of her 1970s stories appeared individually or were collected in anthologies (in 1984 and 1986 she was anthologized three times each, see bibliography below.) 1986 in an anthology in an audiobook sold in Australia.[216] 1989 [217]

In 1992–93 she wrote new pieces again which were themselves anthologized from then on, (see bibliography below.) 1991 anthology Scarlet Letters: Tales of Adultery from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.[218] 1994 twice for the same story.[219] 1995 and 1996 for the same story.[220]

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Husband David preceded her in death, dying February 1994.

In 1995 she published her autobiography, The Great Adventure[1] after working on it for 5 years[221] and had a local book signing,[222] and had a brief profile in the LA Times.[221]

Death

Florence died on April 8, 1998. The Universal House of Justice telegrammed national assemblies of her passing and then asked the American communities, North and South, to hold memorials in her memory in general, and specifically at the Baha'i Houses of Worship in Wilmette Illinois and Panama City,[223] (the new one in Santiago Chile did not yet exist.) She is buried in the Marshfield Cemetery, Marshfield, Missouri.

Legacy

Though she had been anthologized several times in the 1990s before her death she continued to be collected and reprinted in various works as late as 2012. In 2004 her work "When Nothing Matters" was collected in Fifty Best Mysteries.[224] In 2005 her stories "Smiling Joe and the Twins" and "Miz Sammy's Honor" was collected and printed in Murder in Retrospect: A Selective Guide to Historical Mystery Fiction.[225] In 2012 her story "The Secret" was collected and printed in Outcasts and Angels: The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature.[226]

The Baháʼís have also established a seasonal Baháʼí school under the sponsorship of the US National Spiritual Assembly named after her.[227] Kevin Locke performed there in 2011.[228]

Bibliography

She wrote new stories for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine annually from 1968 to 1979, and was in print annually from 1968 to 1987. There were three peaks of activity – in 1971-4 she published more original stories than any other time (averaging 3 a year) and was anthologized once, in 1983–1987 mostly reprints of these same stories appeared individually or were collected in anthologies (in 1984 and 1986 she was anthologized three times each.) In 1992-3 she wrote new pieces again which were themselves anthologized from then on appearing most recently in 2012. All together some 16 of her 34 short stories have been anthologized as of 2015, with three of them anthologized seven times – The Grass Widow, The Secret and Smiling Joe and the Twins – and 8 published more than once.[229]

  1. The Red Ball by F. V. Mayberry, Frontier and Midland magazine, Jan-Feb 1939[230]
  2. (poem) Adam's Black Boy by Florence V. Mayberry, Common Ground, Autumn 1945, pp. 22–23
  3. Kiko by Florence V. Mayberry, The Pacific Spectator, 1952, pp. 364–78[32] (listed among best short stories of 1953)[33]
  4. (children's novel) Florence V. Mayberry (1964). The dachshunds of Mama Island. Doubleday.
  5. Motion Picture in Mrs. Leister's Mind by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1964, pp. 58–66 (anthologized 1965)[117]
  6. Out of the Dream Stumbling by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1964, pp. 46–56
  7. A Lily in Chrissy's Hand by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1965, pp. 57–65
  8. Bitter Vetch by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1968, pp. 79–88
  9. Lost Soaring Dream by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1969, pp. 128–133
  10. Not Lost Any More by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1969, pp. 99–105
  11. Doll Baby by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1970, pp. 30–46
  12. The Beauty in That House by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1971, pp. 53–65 (anthologized 1989)[217]
  13. The Lady of the Afghans by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1971, pp. 131–145
  14. To Find a Millionaire by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1971, pp. 18–33
  15. Screen Test by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 1972, pp. 6–19
  16. The Thing on the Beach by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1972, pp. 32–49
  17. So Lonely, So Lost, So Frightened by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1972, pp. 133–146 (anthologized 1974)[231]
  18. Hong Kong or Wherever by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1972, pp. 42–56
  19. Monkey-Face by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1973, pp. 119–133
  20. Woman Trouble by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, October 1973, pp. 127–141 (anthologized 1986)[216]
  21. In the Secret Hollow by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1973, pp. 107–118
  22. A Goodbye Sound by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1974, pp. 121–132 (anthologized 1984,[232] and 1993[233])
  23. Good Night, Sweet by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1975, pp. 117–127 (anthologized 1980)[234]
  24. Doll Baby by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1976, pp. 190–207 (repeated from Dec 1970)
  25. Till the Day I Die by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1976, pp. 53–68
  26. Hong Kong or Wherever by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1977, pp. 259–273 (repeated from Dec 1972)
  27. The Grass Widow by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1977, pp. 39–54 (anthologized 1979[235] and 1992[236])
  28. Woman Trouble by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1978, pp. 252–266 (repeated from Oct 1973, anthologized 1986)[216]
  29. No Tomorrows by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1978, pp. 117–124
  30. A Goodbye Sound by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1978, pp. 169–180 (repeated from May 1974, anthologized 1984)[232]
  31. When Nothing Matters by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1979, pp. 69–78 (anthologized 2004)[224]
  32. The Girl Downstairs by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 28, 1981, pp. 59–69
  33. Lady in the Black Cape by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, May 1982, pp. 59–73
  34. Where Are the Birds? by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1982, pp. 112–125
  35. The Hallucination by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1983, pp. 21–29
  36. A Goodbye Sound by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Summer 1983, pp. 26–37 (repeated from May 1974, anthologized 1984)[232]
  37. Woman Trouble by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fall 1983, pp. 62–75 (repeated from Oct 1973, anthologized 1986)[216]
  38. No Tomorrows by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Fall 1984, pp. 210–216 (repeated from June 1978)
  39. Widow? by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1985, pp. 90–105
  40. The Beauty in That House by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Summer 1987, pp. 92–103 (repeated from May 1971, anthologized 1989)[217]
  41. Miz Sammy's Honor by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1992, pp. 42–58 (anthologized 2005)[225]
  42. The Stranger by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1992, pp. 110–123
  43. The Secret by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1992, pp. 108–123 (anthologized 1995, 1996, and 2012[220])
  44. Smiling Joe and the Twins by Florence V. Mayberry, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1993, pp. 30–55 (anthologized 1994[219] and 2005[225])
  45. (auto-biography) Florence Mayberry (1 January 1994). The Great Adventure. Nine Pines Publishing. ISBN 978-1-895456-08-0.

Further reading

Florence Mayberry (1 January 1994). The Great Adventure. Nine Pines Publishing. ISBN 978-1-895456-08-0.

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    • Baha'is plan brotherhood week observance, Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California) 25 Feb 1955, Fri • Page 7
  54. ^ Mrs Mayberry's schedule listed, Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 18 Mar 1955, Fri • Page 20
  55. ^ * Baha'i group holds meeting, The Gallup Independent (Gallup, New Mexico) 20 Mar 1955, Sun • Page 9
    • Mrs. Florence Mayberry was driven…, The Gallup Independent (Gallup, New Mexico)21 Mar 1955, Mon • Page 2
    • Announces topic, Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, New Mexico)24 Mar 1955, Thu • Page 2
  56. ^ * Baha'i speaker will address Provo audience, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)14 Apr 1955, Thu • Page 19
    • Californian to give talk on religion, The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah)18 Apr 1955, Mon • Page 7
  57. ^ * Free public lecture, Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho)19 April 1955 • Page 3
    • Baha'i speaker to appear, Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho)21 April 1955 • Page 10
  58. ^ Baha'i in the news, Baháʼí News, June 1955, No 292, pp 20–22 (see p 22)
  59. ^ * Baha'i lecturer…, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)23 Jul 1955, Sat • Page 6
    • Mrs. Mayberry; Baha'i lecturer speaks tonight, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)27 Jul 1955, Wed • Page 5
  60. ^ * Anchorage Hazira dedication, Baháʼí News, August 1955, No 294, p. 6
    • Anchorage Hazira dedicated, Baháʼí News, September 1955, No 295, p. 4
  61. ^ * National News briefs; Fairbanks, Alaska…, Baháʼí News, October 1955, No 296, p. 14
    • Ketchikan Assembly gained in 2 years, Baháʼí News, August 1956, No 306, p. 14
  62. ^ American Hands of the Cause report on Auxliary Board missions; Mrs. Florence Mayberry, Baháʼí News, March 1956, No 301, p. 2
  63. ^ * Teaching conference, talk slated by Baha'i members, The Eugene Guard (Eugene, Oregon)15 Oct 1955, Sat • Page 2
    • Writer tells Baha'i origins, The Eugene Guard (Eugene, Oregon)24 Oct 1955, Mon • Page 6
    • Florence Mayberry will present lecture Saturday, The Independent Record (Helena, Montana)4 Nov 1955, Fri • Page 3
    • American Auxiliary Board continues visits throughout western hemisphere, by Corine True, Paul Haney, Horace Holley, Baháʼí News, May 1956, No 383, p.8
    • Ogden achieves Assembly status, Baháʼí News, July 1957, No 317, p. 20
  64. ^ Maui enjoys 4 day teaching program, Baháʼí News, May 1956, No 303, p. 18
  65. ^ * Church Notes - Lectures on the Baha'i Faith…, The Milwaukee Journal - Mar 24, 1956, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, p.3
    • Seminar teaching used in four communities, Baháʼí News, May 1956, No 303, p. 19
  66. ^ Resurrection of Christ called 'spiritual fact', The Milwaukee Journal - Apr 2, 1956, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, p. 16
  67. ^ "Evolution through progressive revelation" (advert), Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin)12 Apr 1956, Thu • Page 10
  68. ^ Noted speaker to address Bahai group, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas)15 May 1956, Tue • Page 15
  69. ^ * A divine institution, Baháʼí News, June 1956, No 304, p. 9
    • International Archives, by Alice Simmons Cox, Baháʼí News, June 1956, No 304, p. 13
  70. ^ * Baha'i official to speak in Marin Friday, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)21 Jul 1956, Sat • Page 31
    • Mrs. Florence V. Mayberry…, The Times (San Mateo, California)24 Jul 1956, Tue • Page 15
    • Baha'i World Faith, The Times (San Mateo, California)25 Jul 1956, Wed • Page 5
  71. ^ Hands of the Cause tell current plans, by Corine True, Paul Haney, Horace Holley, Baháʼí News, September 1956, No 301, pp. 3–4
  72. ^ * You are cordially invited to hear…, Los Angeles Times, Aug 22, 1956, p. 10
    • "Grave, Far-Reaching implications" nationwide rally for ten year plan, by the National Spiritual Assembly, Baháʼí News, August 1957, No 318, p. 3
  73. ^ Woman to speak, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif, 24 Aug 1956, p. 2
  74. ^ * Florence Mayberry to speak Wednesday, Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka, Alaska)25 Sep 1956, Tue • Page 3
    • Baha'i banquet, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)13 Oct 1956, Sat • Page 1
    • Baha'i visitor, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)17 Oct 1956, Wed • Page 1
  75. ^ * Baha'is of Salem and Marion County present a Baha'i Faith Seminar, Daily Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon)5 Jan 1957, Sat • Page 11
    • Baha'i talks planned here, Daily Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon)7 Jan 1957, Mon • Page 18
    • Final Baha'i lecture is tonight at 8, The Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, Utah)22 Jan 1957, Tue • Page 12
    • Baha'i Faith schedules conferences, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)27 Jan 1957, Sun • Page 22
    • Baha'i Faith representative speaks tonight, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)30 Jan 1957, Wed • Page 3
    • Formula for peace set by Baha'i envoy, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)31 Jan 1957, Thu • Page 3
  76. ^ 3-day seminar on world unity through religion, The Times (San Mateo, California)18 Feb 1957, Mon • Page 14
  77. ^ Two lectures on Baha'i set on campus, Eugene Register-Guard, Eugene Oregon, – Jan 3, 1957, p. 1
  78. ^ Pilgrim Notes recorded after the nightly dinner-table talks of the beloved Guardian, Shoghi Effendi by Isobel Sabri 1957
  79. ^ Effendi, Shoghi (1976). High Endeavours: Messages to Alaska. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Alaska. p. 79.
  80. ^ * Spirit of dedication and earnestness characterizes Geyersville sessions, by Beatrice Rinde, Baháʼí News, October 1957, No 320, p. 8
    • Baha'i seminary opens Monday, The Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)1 Sep 1957, Sun • Page 13
    • Seminar on Baha'i World Faith(advert), The Montana Standard (Butte, Montana)3 Sep 1957, Tue • Page 6
    • Florence Mayberry will address public meetings, The Independent Record (Helena, Montana)8 Sep 1957, Sun • Page 5
    • We cordially invite you…(advert), Greeley Daily Tribune (Greeley, Colorado)19 Sep 1957, Thu • Page 13
  81. ^ Spirit of dedication and earnestness characterizes Geyersville sessions, by Beatrice Rinde, Baháʼí News, October 1957, No 320, p. 8
  82. ^ * Seminar series on world Faith starting Sunday, The San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, California)2 Nov 1957, Sat • Page 11
    • Baha'i Faith member to talk Sunday, Independent (Long Beach, California)16 Nov 1957, Sat • Page 10
  83. ^ American Hands announce appointment of Auxiliary Board for Protection by Corinne True, Paul E. Haney, and Horace Holley, Baháʼí News, February 1958, No 324, p. 3
  84. ^ "Winter Weekend" in Las Vegas stresses deepening in Faith, Baháʼí News, March 1958, No 325, p. 17
  85. ^ Baha'i lecturer visiting Sitka, Daily Sitka Sentinel (Sitka, Alaska) 15 Jan 1958, Wed • Page 2
  86. ^ * World Religion Day marks ninth annual observance, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska) 18 Jan 1958, Sat • Page 5
    • Baha'ist makes third Alaska visit, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska) 24 Jan 1958, Fri • Page 5
    • Baha'ist to speak, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)28 Jan 1958, Tue • Page 1
    • Bahais to speak, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)28 Jan 1958, Tue • Page 1
  87. ^ Northern Alaskan outpost aflame through love of devoted pioneers, Baháʼí News, March 1958, No 326, p. 18
  88. ^ * The Inupiat and the Christianization of Arctic Alaska, Ernest S. Burch, Jr., Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 1994, 18(1-2), pp. 81-108
    • Ootkeavik Presbyterian Church, Barrow, Alaska
    • Bonnie Wartes is interviewed by Karen Brewster in Fairbanks, Alaska on July 21, 2005, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, July 21, 2005.
    • Bonnie Wartes, Project Jukebox, Digital Branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program, May 24, 2004
    • Yukon Presbytery Celebrates Centenary of Arctic Church, Ordination of Inupiat Ministers, by John Filiatreau, wfn-news, March 10, 1999
  89. ^ Speaker to talk on Bahai Faith, Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho) 20 February 1958 • Page 7
  90. ^ Race Amity Day is tomorrow, The Times (San Mateo, California)7 Jun 1958, Sat • Page 2
  91. ^ * 95 students from 11 states attend first southwestern Baha'i summery school, Baháʼí News, November 1958, No 333, pp 12-13
    • A Brief History of the Baháʼí Faith in Dallas, 3/25/2014
    • * 12 States represented at Baha'i meeting, Daily Defender, Dallas TX, Sep 20, 1958, p. 14
  92. ^ * Many groups hear Auxiliary Board member during Brotherhood Week at Baton Rouge, Baháʼí News, April 1959, No 338, p. 9
    • Teaching in the Southern States, Baháʼí News, May 1959, No 339, pp. 11-12
  93. ^ Speaker named at Baha'i Center, The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)16 Oct 1958, Thu • Page 3
  94. ^ Mrs. Florence Mayberry of…, Greenfield Recorder-Gazette, Oct 28, 1958, p. 13
  95. ^ Mrs. Orlando Owen and daughter…, Greenfield Recorder-Gazette, Nov 24, 1958, p. 13
    • Speaker For Bahai Sect Stresses Human Equality, The New Hampshire, Oct 23, 1958, p. 3
    • Merger Of Two Clubs Effects Greater Variety Of Membership, by Beverly Sims, The New Hampshire, Oct 30, 1959, p. 2
  96. ^ * Baha'is from 12 states study at Camp School, California Eagle, Sep 11, 1958, p. 16
    • Mrs. Florence V. Mayberry…, The Montreal Gazette, Nov 15, 1958, p. 39
  97. ^ * Baha'i board member to visit county groups, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas)8 Feb 1959, Sun • Page 15
    • Baha'i official to speak here, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas)17 Feb 1959, Tue • Page 3
    • Alaska is not a land of pretenses, by Sarah Huckaby, The Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas)20 Feb 1959, Fri • Page 3
  98. ^ * National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States for 1959-1960(photo caption), Baháʼí News, March 1960, No 349, p. 4
    • Election of new NSA, Baháʼí News, June 1960, No 351, p. 10
  99. ^ a b NCA calls conference to discuss paramount needs of the Ten-Year Plan; Western States, US Supplement to the Baháʼí News, June 1959, No 16, p. 1
  100. ^ 1000 attend 51st Bahai session here, Daily Defender, Apr 27, 1959, p. 5
  101. ^ Feature recorded lecture Tuesday, Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California)21 Aug 1959, Fri • Page 8
  102. ^ Baha'i lecturer, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)23 Oct 1959, Fri • Page 29
    • Author will address county Bahaʼi meet, Los Angeles Times, [Los Angeles, Calif], 15 Nov 1959, p 10.
  103. ^ Baha'is present speaker, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)24 Feb 1960, Wed • Page 5
  104. ^ *The Bahai community of Altadena, Pasadena Independent (Pasadena, California)17 Mar 1960, Thu • Page 12
    • Bahais greet new year in March 20, Pasadena Independent (Pasadena, California)10 Mar 1960, Thu • Page 11
  105. ^ Countless blessings mark sessions at Geyserville summer school, by Raymond Jones and Beatrice Rinde, Baháʼí News, December 1960, No 357, pp. 17–18
  106. ^ Baha'is discuss racial conflicts, New York Recorder, NYNY, Nov 12, 1960, p 4
  107. ^ Central American assemblies strengthened by visit of Auxliliary Board member, Baháʼí News, December 1960, No 357, p. 13
  108. ^ Mexico, Baháʼí News, August 1961, No 365, pp. 5–6
  109. ^ Indians of Guatemala stirred by visits of Hands of Cause, Baháʼí News, September 1961, No 366, p. 4
  110. ^ Baha'is set lecture at Sheraton, The Irving Daily News Texan (Irving, Texas)14 Feb 1962, Wed • Page 12
    • Mexico lecturer returns to area, The Irving Daily News Texan (Irving, Texas)17 Feb 1962, Sat • Page 2
    • Speaker slates Bahaism talk, El Paso Herald-Post (El Paso, Texas)21 Feb 1962, Wed • Page 33
  111. ^ Board member to be guest speaker for Baha'i Faith, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)5 Mar 1962, Mon • Page 13
  112. ^ Nicaragua holds sixth annual summer school, Baháʼí News, February 1963, No 383, p. 6
  113. ^ British Honduras benefits from visit of Board member, Baháʼí News, March 1963, No. 384, p. 10
  114. ^ Prominent Baha'i teacher to talk, Express and News (San Antonio, Texas)7 Jul 1963, Sun • Page 4
  115. ^ * Public Baha'i meeting, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)28 Aug 1963, Wed • Page 1
    • Baha'i meeting Sunday, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)31 Aug 1963, Sat • Page 1
    • Baha'i speaker, Mrs. Florence Mayberry, to give lectures, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (Fairbanks, Alaska)31 Aug 1963, Sat • Page 5
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    • John E. Kolstoe (1 January 2011). Compassionate Woman: The Life and Legacy of Patricia Locke. Baha'i Pub. ISBN 978-1-931847-85-8.
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  117. ^ a b c d e f Writer combines home, office, by, Eva Altintop, The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)3 Feb 1966, Thu • Page 24
  118. ^ Florence V. Mayberry (1964). The Dachshunds of Mama Island. Doubleday.
  119. ^ Doubleday books for young readers, Chicago Tribune, Nov 10, 1963, p K48a
  120. ^ Books for Young People, The Book and Its "Blurb" by Alice Dalgliesh, The Saturday Review September 21, 1963, p. 42-3
  121. ^ Mayans of Yucatán respond to Faith, Baháʼí News, May 1964, No 398, p. 7
  122. ^ Religious Services: Baha'i, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Illinois, Jan 18, 1964, p. 6
  123. ^ Mrs. Mayberry To Address Baha'i Faith Meeting, Atlanta Daily World, ISSN 1528-6142, 1/22/1964, p. 3
  124. ^ Baha'i Representative Comes To Memphis For Public Meeting, Tri - State Defender, Memphis, Tenn, 08 Feb 1964,p. 8.
  125. ^ News Briefs; San Antonio and Austin…, Baháʼí News, May 1964, No 390, p. 11
  126. ^ Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Davis Publications, Incorporated. 1967. p. 79.
  127. ^ Speaker, The Spokesman-Review - Sep 25, 1965, p. 4
  128. ^ Crime on my hands by Vivian Mort, Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Sep 5, 1965, p. 10
  129. ^ Baha'i lecturer to speak here tomorrow night, The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)6 Apr 1964, Mon • Page 14
  130. ^ * Author Baha'i Speaker, Greenfield Recorder-Gazette, April 11, 1964, p. 6
    • World traveler speaks, Greenfield Recorder-Gazette, April 18, 1964, p. 11
  131. ^ Baha'is set public meet, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)30 Nov 1964, Mon • Page 2
  132. ^ World Religion Day observed throughout the U.S., Baháʼí News, April 1965, No 409, p. 9
  133. ^ * The Baha'i World Faith…,(advert), The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)19 Apr 1965, Mon • Page 7
    • National board member of Baha'i Faith to lecture, The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)20 Apr 1965, Tue • Page 28
    • Tomorrow at 8pm, The Post-Crescent (Appleton, Wisconsin)23 Apr 1965, Fri • Page 2
  134. ^ Baha'i event slated, Oshkosh Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin)24 Apr 1965, Sat • Page 20
  135. ^ Institution of the Hands, Baháʼí News, July 1965, No 412, p. 4
  136. ^ Bakersfield meeting; Those of Baha'i faith to stress race unity, The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, California)12 Jun 1965, Sat • Page 19
  137. ^ Baha'i Distribution and Service Department – Panel of Baha'is on ABC Network, Baháʼí News, August 1965, No 413, p. 16
  138. ^ Baha'i youth trained for summer service projects at two Baha'i schools, by Nancy Larson, Baháʼí News, September 1965, No 414, p. 10–11
  139. ^ Second summer school held at Big Bear Lake, California, Baháʼí News, October 1965, No 415, p. 11
  140. ^ California victory campaign announced, Baháʼí News, October 1965, No 415, p. 14
  141. ^ News Briefs – Auxiliary Board member, Mrs. Florence Mayberry…, Baháʼí News, December 1965, No 412, p. 23
  142. ^ Baha'i lecture Sat. at Chapman, The Tustin News (Tustin, California)28 Oct 1965, Thu • Page 5
  143. ^ Baha'i Publishing trust – A New Way of Life, October 1965, No 415, p. 16
  144. ^ First training institute enkindles pioneering spirit, Baháʼí News, February 1966, No 419, p. 11
  145. ^ * Author to speak on Friday under Baha'i sponsorship, Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho)6 January 1966 • Page 8
    • Author to talk at public meeting tonight, Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho)7 January 1966 • Page 6
  146. ^ * World Religion Day activities scheduled, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Ca, Jan 12, 1966, p SG12
    • Baha'i Faith plans week of Activities, The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)22 Jan 1966, Sat • Page 5
    • 250 from all over nation will attend Baha'i week, The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)28 Jan 1966, Fri • Page 21
    • Celebrities here for Baha'i week from education, science, entertainment(advert), The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)29 Jan 1966, Sat • Page 6
    • 9-day Baha'i week will end tomorrow, The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)5 Feb 1966, Sat • Page 4
  147. ^ Public meetings well attended, Baháʼí News, March 1966, No 420, pp. 12–13
  148. ^ In Memoriam, Baháʼí News Supplement, No 100, June 1966, p. 2
  149. ^ Mystery writer will give talk, The Fresno Bee The Republican (Fresno, California)23 Apr 1966, Sat • Page 6
  150. ^ Coming Events; Public Baha'i meeting on Viet Nam problem, The Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)3 May 1966, Tue • Page 3
  151. ^ Mrs. Florence V. Mayberry…(advert), Montana Standard-Post (Butte, Montana)9 May 1966, Mon • Page 5
  152. ^ Hands call gathering at West Englewood, Baháʼí News, September 1966, No 426, p. 12-13
  153. ^ Baha'i speaker served with United Nations, Los Angeles Times, Sep 4, 1966, p. WS3
  154. ^ News Briefs – An inter-faith and inter-racial fellowship potluck…, Baháʼí News, July 1967, No 436, p. 23
  155. ^ Joyous Ridvan Feast and evening with Hand of the Cause, Baháʼí News, July 1967, No 436, p. 14
  156. ^ The Hands of the Cause, Baháʼí News, December 1967, p. 16
  157. ^ Board team conference brings light and understanding, Baháʼí News, March 1968, No 444, p. 3
  158. ^ Baha'i lecture Saturday, The Independent Record (Helena, Montana)23 Feb 1968, Fri • Page 7
  159. ^ 'Il Notices… Taped panel discussion, Daily Illini, 22 March 1968, p. 9
  160. ^ Uniting force seen in Faith, Spokane Daily Chronicle – Apr 16, 1968, Spokane, Washington, p. 26
  161. ^ Seattle Auxiliary Board team conference, Baháʼí News, July 1968, No 448, p. 13
  162. ^ Membership of the first Continental Bourds of Counsellors, Baháʼí News, August 1968, No 449, p. 2
  163. ^ The Continental Board of Counsellors, Baháʼí News, September 1968, No 450, p. 3
  164. ^ Nine conferences inspire rededication, Baháʼí News, June 1969, No 459, p. 2
  165. ^ Hands of the Cause addresses the friends, Baháʼí News, June 1969, No 459, pp. 12–13
  166. ^ Continental Board of Cousellors Deepening Conference…(photo caption), Baháʼí News, September 1969, No 462, p. 13
  167. ^ More than 800 persons present at unity Feast, The Geyserville Press – Jul 31, 1969, Geyserville, California, p. 1
  168. ^ Neah Bay hosts Baha'i council fire session, Port Angeles Evening News (Port Angeles, Washington)6 Aug 1969, Wed • Page 11
  169. ^ The seventh annual Nea Bay Council Fire, Baháʼí News, November 1969, No 464, p. 17
  170. ^ Baha'is slate speaker here Sunday afternoon, The Shelton-Mason County Journal, Shelton Washington, Aug 14, 1969, p. 19
  171. ^ The peoples of God, Part 2, Alaska, Baháʼí News, July 1978, pp 8–10
  172. ^ * Unity Octace program is set; world church man will talk, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)10 Jan 1970, Sat • Page 19
    • New Unity octave members, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)17 Jan 1970, Sat • Page 20
  173. ^ Baha'i summer session ends, The Geyserville Press - Sep 10, 1970, Geyserville, California, p. 1
  174. ^ * Ridvan 1970 - The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Alaska…,(photo caption) Baháʼí News, July 1970, No 472, p. 5
    • Alaska(photo caption), Baháʼí News, July 1970, No 472, p. 11
  175. ^ North Pacific Oceanic Conference – Sapporo, Japan, by Barbara Casterline, Baháʼí News, November 1971, No 432, p. 13
  176. ^ From America to Malaysia with love, Baháʼí News (from Oct 1971 Malaysia Baháʼí News), May 1971, No 495, p. 21
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  178. ^ Baha'i, Express and News (San Antonio, Texas)13 Nov 1971, Sat • Page 13
  179. ^ Rights Day talk announced, Daily Independent Journal (San Rafael, California)27 Nov 1971, Sat • Page 18
  180. ^ "Wake Up America" Exhorts Hand of the Cause Sears, Baháʼí News, June 1971, No 483, p. 1–3
  181. ^ Spiritually Conquer Alaska – first Baha'i country theme Alaska Convention, Baháʼí News, No 484, p. 5
  182. ^ California victory conference for Spanish-Americans, Baháʼí News, October 1971, No 487, p. 10
  183. ^ Counsellors sponsor two deepening conferences, Baháʼí News, May 1972, No 494, p. 10
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  187. ^ In Memoriam, Norman Cluster Newsletter, Dec 2010, p. 2
  188. ^ * United States Convntion, 1972, "Poised for overwhelming victory", Baháʼí News, June 1972, pp. 12–16
    • Teaching momentum from the United States Convention, Baháʼí News, September 1972, No 498, p.19
  189. ^ Alaska - Convention report, Baháʼí News (from June 1972 Alaska Baháʼí News, August 1972, No 497, p. 11
  190. ^ * Florence Mayberry, traveler…, The Independent Record (Helena, Montana)6 Oct 1972, Fri • Page 15
    • Lecturer, poet, to speak here, The Independent Record (Helena, Montana)8 Oct 1972, Sun • Page 10
  191. ^ Counsellors conference at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Baha'i Faith, December 1972, No 501, pp. 7–8
  192. ^ Dedication of the Louis G. Gregory Baha'i Institute, by Ruth Hamptonm Baháʼí News, December 1972, No 501, pp. 9–10
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  194. ^ * Baha'i Faith(advert), Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California)13 Mar 1973, Tue • Page 5
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  195. ^ Counsellor Florence Mayberry…(photo caption), Baháʼí News, July 1972, No 508, p. 15
  196. ^ International Teachings Centre established in Holy Land, Baháʼí News, July 1973, No 508, p. 1
  197. ^ International Teaching Centre meets, Baháʼí News, September 1973, No 510, p. 3
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  199. ^ World Center visitor takes part in meeting, Baháʼí News, December 1974, p. 9
  200. ^ Counsellor's conference conducted in Salisbury, Baháʼí News, December 1974, p. 9–10
  201. ^ Institution members meetin in Germany, Baháʼí News, January 1976, No 538, p. 15
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  203. ^ Youth Conference attracts diverse group of Baha'is, Baháʼí News, February 1977, No 551, p. 13
  204. ^ European Counsellors host Boards, Assemblies, Baháʼí News, January 1979, No 562, pp. 10–11
  205. ^ The Southeast Asia Conference, by Bret Breneman, Baháʼí News, April 1976, No 565, pp. 10–11
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May 18, 2023
florence, virginia, foose, wilson, mayberry, september, 1906, april, 1998, american, writer, convert, baháʼí, faith, after, mostly, being, raised, grandparents, grandfather, particular, serving, union, army, during, civil, joined, religion, around, same, time,. Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry September 18 1906 April 8 1998 was an American writer and convert to the Bahaʼi Faith After mostly being raised by her grandparents her grandfather in particular serving in the Union Army during the civil war she joined the religion at age 35 and around the same time began also writing short fiction eventually having a long career writing for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine In the religion her service as a speaker was wide ranging and soon she advanced from position to position in the religion as first an Auxiliary Board member and then a Continental Counselor and then one serving at the International Teaching Centre the highest appointed positions of the religion during her later years Meanwhile she was a successful writer with almost 20 years of continuous annual appearance in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine and almost half her stories were also anthologized even as late as 2012 Florence Virginia Foose Wilson MayberryBorn 1906 09 18 September 18 1906DiedApril 8 1998 1998 04 08 aged 91 OccupationWriter Contents 1 Early life 2 Encountering the Bahaʼi faith 2 1 Reno 2 2 Santa Paula 3 Traveling speaker and writer on the side 3 1 US South Convention and Conference 3 2 Western Canada 3 3 Eastern Canada 3 4 Auxiliary Board for the Americas 3 4 1 The rest of the 50s and pilgrimage 3 4 1 1 Trips 3 4 1 2 Pilgrimage 3 4 1 3 Winter in Alaska 3 4 1 4 Summer in the South and West 3 4 1 5 To Mexico 3 4 1 6 Moving and trips 3 5 Counsellor 4 Retired 5 Death 5 1 Legacy 6 Bibliography 7 Further reading 8 ReferencesEarly life EditBorn into the Foose Foos family her grandfather claimed the e was added by a Union Army clerk to his name 1 p6 Through her grandmother she claimed relation to President Zachary Taylor 1 p7 However the family was as proud of traveling preacher John Taylor In her autobiography Mayberry highlights and praises her aunt Charlotte Mariah whom her exasperated grandmother would occasionally compare her to 1 pp5 6 Her feisty personality grew up after an era rife with family based abuse of women save in the case of her grandparents They lived along the Wabash River in Indiana The family moved to Missouri where the family spent many years There is a Foose Missouri intersection in the vicinity which might have been the site of the grandfather s store 1 p55 2 Her mother Myrtle married at 16 to a 27 year old Scot Bill Wilson Mayberry s father 1 pp14 15 They lived in Lebanon Missouri then the town of Sleeper on the other side of Lebanon from her grandparents Myrtle eventually divorced him and the family held rumors that father Bill tried to kidnap baby Florence and was caught by her grandfather Bill was a train station agent The family then moved to Texas in Deaf Smith County Her mother married a cowboy while she was raised by her grandparents Oddly Mayberry remembers her mother calling her Sister 1 for example pp 33 35 36 But this too was a short lived marriage 1 p38 Then the mother and daughter moved to California to wed Wilbur Walton and the family rented out rooms in San Francisco 1 p43 They alternated housing a couple times and were still living San Francisco in 1912 near the Golden Gate Park Panhandle 1 p48 The family had connection to an unnamed Protestant denomination and was very anti catholic 1 p66 Mayberry recalls an event in her autobiography in October 1912 when she was about 6 yrs old While in the park she encountered a group who tried to invite her to meet some referred to as Him near a portal of the park she later came to believe this to have been people who had accompanied ʻAbdu l Baha then head of the Bahaʼi Faith whose presence at the park in October 1912 was confirmed However she could not confirm enough details to prove it specifically But she recalled them as My people though she was called away by her mother even if the welcome was warm 1 pp50 51 However they soon went back to Missouri where her grandparents had returned and mother went on to work in St Louis at the Famous Barr department store but shortly she returned to live with Wilbur while Florence stayed on with her grandparents 1 p52 until she had a little brother and the whole family moved to Waverly Missouri The family became friends several African Americans Ollie a neighboring African American and insisted an African American family eat with them at their kitchen table There was a visit from the social ladies of the town who communicated to them that the norm in the area was in favor of maintaining segregated eating and her grandfather quipped back as Mayberry recalled Tell your menfolks this As a boy I fought in the Civil War for Abe Lincoln The idee was to fix things so black folks are free to be like God wanted em to be Free and equal A colored man or woman is as good as Becky n me In my house they eat at my table because I eat at my table And tell your menfolks this too I keep a loaded shotgun under my bed And the first man or men steps on my land I bought and paid for to force me or my woman to change how we treat folks on our property will get its full blast And I reload fast I thank you Ladies and good afternoon 1 p59 However Florence did not pursue the friendship with Ollie and was put off by her strangeness but came to regret her lack of friendship in later years During her 8th year 1 pp60 62 the family was reunited and they moved to Oakland California together arriving on her 9th birthday in 1915 She attended the Denman School for girls see John Swett and was a steady reader of books and magazines 1 pp62 3 She told her brother Richard Walton 3 of the mysterious meeting by the portal of the park and recalled going to the De Young Museum And a search for a church for Sunday School was started around her 9th year 1 p67 A year later she tried Christian Scientist following her mother seeking to overcome her chronic asthma but didn t see a social fit for her as she advanced in studies there 1 p68 The first World War broke into her awareness in her 11th year followed by the Spanish flu though she and her family recovered some neighbors didn t 1 p69 At fourteen the family briefly moved to Indiana arriving in Newport of Hoosier County where her grandparents then lived 1 p71 She entered the eight grade there 1 p73 Then they moved to Fresno California and during a spell of illness she began to seek God s guidance on what to believe 1 pp75 6 There was another temporary separation of her parents and the kids went to stay with the grandparents in Newport Florence went as a senior to high school in Indiana and also began to teach Sunday school in nursery class and had finished reading the entire Bible as part of her senior English class 1 p77 She was upset that the church s Sunday school taught that the Bible was literally true She remembered particularly the Adam and Eve story being trouble and was brought to a half by the rendering of the story of Jonah She confronted the local minister that she couldn t accept it as literal And furthermore she recalled saying I will never join any church which leave out any people Because I believe God made the whole world and all the people in it I will only join a church which doesn t divide by denominations color heathens nothing just one for everyone So I can t teach Sunday School class here any longer 1 p Encountering the Bahaʼi faith EditNext her family moved to live with a cousin near Santa Paula California when Florence was 18 and initially she got a job teaching ballet but switched to joining the local newspaper as a society editor reporter 1 pp80 82 When she worked there a Bahaʼi couple asked to have an article published on The unity of mankind However the editor s wife working at the newspaper took it from her after they left and tore it in half and threw it away Bahaʼis Crazy kooks Florence later recalled her saying She retrieved the papers and read them herself noting the informational meeting was going to be a C E Carpenter s home with a speaker from Los Angeles coming Elizabeth Carpenter kept offering articles and despite they weren t published she and Florence became friends During a break in the editor s wife presence Florence was able to get one piece in the paper and it continued after her return initially without comment And news came a daughter was to marry a Persian Sheikh Ali Yazdi in 1926 1 pp82 3 4 5 Eventually the editor s wife asked Florence to do a piece on the religion However Florence could not remember any details when or what she wrote when she wrote her autobiography However see a newspaper story appeared only a few months later 6 Florence s mother and brother rejoined Wilbur Walton in Stockton California Around then her grandfather cum father died in Indiana It was also around this time when the family met the Kanno Takisha Japanese family who it turned out later had met ʻAbdu l Baha in Oakland in 1912 1 p85 Soon after the family including Florence moved to Las Vegas around the time the Boulder Dam later renamed Hoover Dam was being built 1 p87 roughly 1930 1935 And then they moved to Reno Nevada Richard went to Los Angeles to attend an art school At this time she had a Catholic friend but she couldn t reconcile down to a denomination that excluded others 1 p88 Then the family moved to Hollywood California while her brother was in art school and she had an under study part in a play 1 p89 But lacking an economic connection they moved back to Santa Paula where she learned short hand and then she moved to Reno Nevada again Reno Edit Her spiritual search remained unfocused and unguided though she prayed for it Soon she was working at the post office and met David Mayberry whom she married four weeks later 1 p91 His grandparents were Mormon converts but he had no great personal attachment to the denomination 1 p92 They were married July 1935 Later while visiting her mother in Santa Paula she and her mother engaged in conversation on a serious pursuit of religion and she recalled encountering the Bahaʼi Faith to her mother 1 p93 They found the Carpenter family and went to a fireside informational meeting by the family s daughter in law Marzieh Gail 1 pp93 4 This was the daughter of well known Bahaʼi Ali Kuli Khan 1 p131 Florence was not convinced on several points but left with a copy of Bahaʼi Scriptures but did not read it immediately indeed she left it for two years 1 p94 In the meantime the Mayberry family moved outside of Reno into a new home and Elizabeth Carpenter surprised her with a visit having directions from her husband Carpenter was returning from attending US Bahaʼi national convention and after the visit she gave a brief review of a random page A few months later her husband reported a Bahaʼi took a job at the post office and that a traveling Bahaʼi speaker needed help finding a venue in Reno for a talk she would give this was Mamie Seto The Mayberry s assisted and appreciated Seto and her talk Following it they bought a copy of Bahaʼu llah and the New Era but it was not a memory of importance that they read it and commented on reading it 1 p97 This might have been noted in the June 1939 edition of Bahaʼi News 7 A few months earlier Florence published her first known piece a Christmas story in Feb 1939 but was thought to have been a man 8 Bahaʼi Helen Grifting moved to Reno and invited the Mayberrys over to dinner She became a companion on many family outings and through her presence the Mayberrys began to read their now two Bahaʼi books but did not think had to belong to a religion 1 p98 They attended Helen s fireside talks regularly along with her mother and brother and his new wife They heard presentations by returning pilgrims and international travelers Mayberry recalled one night that based on her conversation someone at a bar asked her when she had joined the religion and then finding she hadn t quizzed her what was wrong with it that she hadn t She was guilty she had been at a bar too even if she was a casual social drinker After some time she interrupted her day and drove off in the car to demand a declaration card from Helen at her work but Helen urged caution Are you sure 1 p99 She waited 1 p100 In Sept 1939 Helen notes in Bahaʼi News that there were excellent contacts many friends and three had gone to the Geyersville Summer school later moved and named the Bosch Bahaʼi School 9 The Mayberry s moved from an apartment near a golf course to a cottage around the same time Helen had to downsize her apartment Wanting to be of assistance and enjoying the meetings the Mayberry s took out a wall so they could have one big room and volunteered to host meetings 1 p101 Mayberry wrestled over personally praying if mostly they were gimme prayers vs the given Bahaʼi prayers which were for people in general and full of eloquent imagery strange to the tongue 1 p101 In 1940 Florence recalled going on a trip and stopping in Wilmette and seeing the House of Worship there under construction 1 p123 This might have been her trip to see F D Roosevelt at the democratic national convention she attended 10 Then there was an incident reported in Mayberry s autobiography 1 pp102 3 Her mother had befriended an African American lady the couple had been wakened by police and arrested her husband all with rough treatment and language normal of the day The next day his employer defended his character and he was released The next day Florence called the Mayor s office then the chief of police and arguments with them equated prejudice with anti American behavior asking that an apology be made public and the couple received an apology As a result Florence was asked to speak at the local AME church She settled on the story recalling Ollie to tell her audience and her sorrow at not fulfilling a friendship with her it was a healing for her too Florence then went through an experience May 1941 1 p104 She felt an intense need to clean her home She did a good job and then found herself very upset and in mid yell called herself a hypocrite for not joining the Bahaʼi Faith She called her husband and announced she was joining the religion He said when you ask for your membership card ask for two That night her brother s family also joined the religion The next morning her mother did as well In October Bahaʼi News noted the Reno community had 6 adults so Helen plus these five and hoped to elect an assembly soon 11 The community had been founded a decade earlier when Gertrude Frazier first moved to Reno 12 Seven adults were noted in Oct 1942 13 with the arrival of Eleanor Adler in July 14 Further meetings were held and Mayberry says she gained a greater depth of appreciation of the history of the religion in the East and the West The declaration of Robert Takeshi Imagire in 1942 at the Mayberry home made the 9th member of the community and a Local Spiritual Assembly the foundational administrative institution of the religion was elected 15 16 Later Imagire was inspired by one of Florence s poems to make a painting 17 Gladys was chair of the assembly and Florence secretary by December 1944 18 In 1945 Florence was on the regional committee 19 The US entered World War II in December and both brother and husband were drafted her brother was found to have a birth defect and was excused from service 1 p105 Her husband asked for non combatant status as a Bahaʼis and was assigned to the Army Postal Field Service David Mayberry was on a regional committee by July 1943 20 Florence got a job with the US Employment Service 1 p105 November Florence was the Fair Employment Practices Committee consultant in the area 21 Together they had their first child March 24 1945 Fireside gatherings grew larger When the Reno community of Bahaʼis reached nine they elected their first assembly Assembly noted in 1947 22 Santa Paula Edit With discharge from the military the family moved to Santa Paula though she found that the Carpenters had moved away 1 p107 Both Mayberry s found jobs in the shifting economy and their son Michael was minded by grandmother Myrtle Florence became a secretary manager of the Chamber of Commerce when the manager left The Santa Paula community was highly agricultural and had a significant population of immigrant farm workers 1 p108 She worked with directors of the Chamber of Commerce to bring together the white and Latino communities into a united Fiesta Parade rather than the traditional segregated practice And they found that another Bahaʼi family in the area the children of the first Japanese Bahaʼis 1 p109 In the fall of 1945 she had her first poem published it was in Common Ground magazine and was called Adam s Black Boy was about a black man oppressed and begging the poem ran over a page 23 A notice in the newspaper has her giving a talk November 1946 in Los Angeles at their Bahaʼi Center 24 In the coming years both her writing and talks were gathering attention Florence was noticeable next as the chair of the Southern California Arizona regional committee of Bahaʼis in 1947 25 and also gave talks at the LA Bahaʼi Center 26 Both Mayberry s served on the western states committee of 1949 27 She was also the secretary of the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce in 1948 28 Florence increasingly began to give talks but soon found she had a medical condition arise It proved to be an enormous test after the initial operation which developed into experiences of great pain and multiple operations over two years 1 pp112 119 Following this she applied to the University of California at Los Angeles 1 p119 She says she did well in philosophy 1 p121 She also began to take up poetry as an exploration of faith 1 p120 In 1950 she was mentioned having published a novel 29 She also gave a talk at the LA Center for Ridvan a pivotal holy day in the Bahaʼi calendar 30 She wrestled with understanding Shoghi Effendi s leadership as head of the religion when coming out of her Protestant Christian context the Popes were considered trouble Despite ʻAbdu l Baha being an even higher leader of the religion she didn t have a problem with that because she saw him as the ultimate grandfather 1 p120 She had begun and continued to focus on the special station of the Guardianship held by Shoghi Effendi and gained an emotional attachment and decided to write to him 1 p120 1 She outlined her recent activity trials and achievements The response encouraged her public speaking as well as study of the Bahaʼi teachings themselves and he commented that there was a real lack in the Cause of people who know the teachings thoroughly especially the deeper truths 1 p121 Florence debated her pursuit of a college degree vs her role in public speaking and worried feeling also that her studies of the religions teachings had been impatient and was attracted to the idea of having the teachings imbedded into her awareness 1 p121 She decided to drop her pursuit of a degree and focused on a close study of the Writings and be able to respond to any call for a speaker for the religion She gave a talk she gave for World Religion Day in Fresno in 1952 31 She also published a short story Kiko 32 which was collected in the best fiction of 1953 33 Traveling speaker and writer on the side EditUS South Convention and Conference Edit She gave a talk in January 1953 at the LA center 34 and in Fresno for Ridvan 1953 35 In early Spring of 1953 a letter arrived from the US National Spiritual Assembly asking her if she could undertake a fortnight s teaching trip through several Southern States these are Florence s words as she recalled in her autobiography 1 p122 And she had also given a talk at the Geyersville Bahaʼi Summer School 1 p122 She recognized one of the students of the class as signing the letter asking for the trip and she soon headed off by train She felt it went well but offers no details in her autobiography other than the cultural encounter with Southern warmth on the one hand and segregation on the other Following the trip she was able to attend the national convention for the 1953 jubilee of the declaration of Bahaʼu llah s first revelatory experience in the Siyah Chal and one of the conferences on the spread of the religion held May 2 1953 1 p124 The American Conference also featured a chance to meet Shoghi Effendi s wife Ruhiyyih Khanum then a newly appointed Hand of the Cause She reflected on stories of her from her meeting ʻAbdu l Baha at 2 yrs old and exploits of her youthful daring originality of thought her profound love of nature and animals and her great courage in teaching 1 p123 This was also her chance to see the finished House of Worship she had seen more than a decade earlier The convention and conference were held at Chicago s Medinah Temple Florence attended as a guest not a delegate She was strongly affected by the multi racial delegates and the talks Several Hands of the Cause attended and the audience rose to their feet when Ruhiyyih Khanum was introduced to speak 1 p124 Afterwards in divisions of about 1600 people at a time painted portraits of the Bab and Bahaʼu llah were viewed and from which she recalled the personal trials the young men were to go through and their personal refinement Western Canada Edit Upon her return home the family business adjusted and Florence became the office clerk for the business About the same time a letter arrived from the NSA of Canada asking her for a speaking trip in Western Canada for a month On presenting the letter to her husband she offered to decline the invitation He recounted a promise he had made to God that if she lived we would dedicate your whole life to the service of His Cause So if you don t go to Canada I ll have to break my promise to God 1 p125 She observed a lot of similarities between the Americans and Canadians while also distinctions of language details and the prevalence of hot tea She noted both had shoved aside the Indian owners of the land a problem both were still struggling to amend 1 p126 She says in her autobiography some of her talks were over kitchen tables and some in halls and universities She commented on her own now perceived slow progress to the religion I could now be grateful for my own slow entry I could understand and empathize with them Some indeed appeared as hard headed excuse making as I had been during my search for Truth and I would never be able to spiritual boast about my perceptions 1 p126 Her Canadian travels went from British Columbia to Manitoba where she met Angus Cowan later a Counsellor she served with She returned through the northwest states in abbreviated version some of which were noted in newspapers 36 37 Eastern Canada Edit Upon return to Santa Paula and soon after arriving the Canadian assembly asked her for a similar tour of Eastern Canada which her family supported 1 p127 Most stops this time were one night stops and most travel was by bus Often talks were variously from lunch time on to various afternoon events then a break until evening Then the next day on to the next stop The pace taxed her strength and she recalled climbing bus steps crab like hauling her projector and slide collection 1 p127 During the trip in Toronto one audience member challenged her on the topic of the Anti Christ and it was the first time she had had the question from the public Her answer silenced him and he sat down she had referred to anyone even a Christian declaring fealty to Jesus Christ who denies that returned Holy Spirit is Anti Christ Bahaʼis believe Bahaʼu llah is that Return 1 p128 She continued on to Montreal remarking it was especially the region of the home of Ruhiyyih Khanum and where ʻAbdu l Baha visited and Shoghi Effendi in his authority as head of the religion designating the Maxwell home as a national shrine 1 p128 News reached her in 1954 38 of the death of Hand of the Cause Dorothy Beecher Baker who had died the year before To Mayberry Backer seemed to inspire her all the more and recalled hearing her voice Spirit is never lost it persists evanescent seeking open vessels Irresistibly it flows into any ready receptor adding spirit unto spirit 1 p128 Then flying onward to Prince Edward Island there was a greater sense of her being seen as a foreigner she was told even mainland Canadians were called foreigners and when she arrived at the airport no one appeared to be there to greet her 1 p129 Others waiting turned out to be waiting for her though they thought she would be gray haired and she was young at 47 Then she did not feel like a foreigner and being welcomed into various groups save for an altercation from a returned logger whose regular bathroom had been assigned to her use as the only female guest of the hotel 1 p130 A note her talk made the local papers though it mistakenly assigns the date to 1952 39 From there she went south to Boston then Washington D C and Alexandria VA and there met Ali Kuli Khan father of the Marzieh who had given her her first fireside Mariam Haney Paul Haney then Chair of the US National Assembly in February 1954 1 p131 just before he was appointed as a Hand of the Cause She also made it to Wilmington Delaware 40 Baltimore Maryland 41 and Prescott Arizona on the way home 42 Auxiliary Board for the Americas Edit Upon return to Santa Paula she was informed that as the elected delegate to the national convention had moved away she as runner up and was now the delegate 1 p131 At first thinking she would end the first night of the convention early being weary from her travels she changed her mind when it was brought to her attention that the three Hands responsible for North America were to speak and their nine appointments of their new auxiliary assistants to be announced 43 She was shocked to hear her name as the fourth on their list 1 p132 She seemed to not be well known in the auditorium and went to the podium to introduce herself to Horace Holley 1 p132 The Americas North and South were split into 9 regions for the auxiliary board and there would be no salary minimal travel expenses and they were to avoid any sense of appearing to be clergy Her region included Western Canada the US from the Pacific to the Mississippi River plus Alaska and Hawaii 1 p133 She began to study more intensively and struggled between warming to the encouragement and the warnings of ego in the writings of the religion 1 p134 Eventually she also learned that it was excessive to spend too much time and emotional strength over self guilt and recriminations 1 p134 By August she was on the program at Geyserville Bahaʼi School 44 After the conference she began a tour that gradually grew into a widespread journey leaving Chicago heading west and variously north or south then north along the Pacific coast with occasional visits to the Atlantic and deep south 1 p135 In the Fall she spoke in Alberta Canada 45 Montana 46 as well as Spokane Washington 47 She was on KXLF TV and KBOW radio in Montana 48 An updated on her travels in February noted she had already been in Montana Washington Idaho Oregon Washington with Nevada Arizona New Mexico Texas Utah Colorado and Wyoming coming up 49 March 21 1954 Florence Mayberry was on a panel of Baha is on the Church Women s News A Radio Program by Ruth S Norman in West Virginia 50 The rest of the 50s and pilgrimage Edit Trips Edit In January 51 and in February 52 Mayberry went to Oregon to give a talk then California 53 In March she started in Albuquerque 54 and then during Bahaʼi Naw Ruz the new year day of the Bahaʼi calendar she gave several talks around Gallup New Mexico that made the local newspaper and went back to Albuquerque 55 Then Utah 56 and Idaho 57 in April In June there is a notice Mayberry was meeting with the group United American Indians in Spokane 58 one of the early official contacts between the Bahaʼi Faith and Native Americans Her first trip to Alaska came July 1955 1 p146 Several meetings were held around Fairbanks in July 59 In August she helped dedicate the national Bahaʼi center for Alaska a region recognized by the Bahaʼis with its own national community 60 Various local papers covered events 61 Then she proceeded south through Canada for the summer school in Geyserville Bahaʼi School 62 Her list of travels by May in the Bahaʼi News included across southern Canada to Manitoba then south into North Dakota and then west to Washington south and back across the western states from October through December 63 In February and March she was in several meetings on various of the Hawaiian Islands and was interviewed on KMVI 64 Then in later March she was in Milwaukee Wisconsin at a northern suburb Whitefish Bay 65 and at the Milwaukee Baha i center 66 then north to Oshkosh 67 By mid May she was in a home in Galveston giving a talk 68 By late May she was attending the national convention giving reports on what has happened 69 By the summer of 1956 she was giving local talks closer to home 70 while she developed a traveling seminar 71 and was aiding in coordinating urgent meetings in Seattle and Los Angeles 72 73 Still she made a quick trip to Alaska 74 before rounding out her trip among the lower 48 in the north west 75 before returning to her home are for one last talk in the season 76 Pilgrimage Edit On her most recent a visit to Billings Montana a local Bahaʼi challenged her to plan to go on Bahaʼi pilgrimage despite her economic limits 1 p135 She was soon offered pilgrimage for Fall 1956 but was delayed by the Suez Crisis However when that was over she was alerted while visiting Yakima Washington by a call from her husband that she had been offered to go in April 1957 1 p136 In between she gave a talk in Eugene Oregon 77 She encountered a family of Persian Bahaʼis on the flight from Rome to Tel Aviv 1 p136 She was met at the door by Jesse Revel then treasurer of the International Bahaʼi Council and Isobel Sabri a pioneer from Africa then on pilgrimage herself but she had missed the events of the first day of Ridvan 1 p137 Isobel took notes during the pilgrimage and mentions Mayberry a few times 78 From her autobiography it appears she commented that there is not a great deal of receptivity to the religion in America asked about the role of auxiliary board members and asked about childhood education practices The next morning she found her other fellow pilgrims to be Alice Dudley and Sallie Saynor They visited the archives which at the time were housed in three rooms of the Shrine of the Bab 1 p138 There she saw the passport photograph of Bahaʼu llah not knowing it existed previously 1 p139 Then she went to the Shrine of ʻAbdu l Baha next door Shoghi Effendi commented that from her report the Alaskan Baha i community had been progressing well 79 That day s lunch was hosted by Ruhiyyih Khanum and then the ladies were invited over to Khanum and Effendi s current residence 1 p139 There she attended a tea reception and then went back to the Western Pilgrim House and then the group had dinner with Shoghi Effendi 1 p141 There were then successive visits to the prison and other sites of the pilgrimage and last the Shrine of Bahaʼu llah as a group 1 p142 Then supper was served nearby After dinner they visited the upper rooms of the Mansion of Bahji 1 p143 The next day she visited the Shrine of Bahaʼu llah alone They returned to the Haifa area for the ninth day of Ridvan A separate feast was held for the men and women and then all approached the Shrine of Bab and the tablet of visitation was said by Shoghi Effendi himself and the process repeated in the Shrine of ʻAbdu l Baha 1 p144 In two more days Florence was the lone western Bahaʼi left She recalled Shoghi Effendi referred to a few open spots on the scroll of the Knights of Bahaʼu llah the first pioneers to a country for the religion and highlighted the staunchness of Marion Jack One evening she recalled Shoghi Effendi suggested her family Scatter and teach 1 p153 and the consultation in the family later seemed to suggest mother Myrtle should pioneer She was soon leading some seminars back in the States in Montana and Wyoming in September with various levels of coverage on stations including KGVO 80 Giving a talk and taught at Geyserville school in October 81 and before meeting in southern California in November 82 Following the request of the Guardian the Hands developed boards for proclaiming the religion as well as protecting it from division Florence continued on the one promoting encouraging engaging the public and stirring its members to engaging on issues 83 In December she was at a Baha i conference in Las Vegas 84 Winter in Alaska Edit Mayberry called her 1958 trip to Alaska the most dramatic of her trips in her autobiography 1 p146 The mid winter trip began mild but a blizzard was in the way of the seaplane flying on toward Juneau and only got as far as Petersburg and would miss a scheduled TV appearance 1 p147 Instead she struck up a conversation with the hotel manager who noting she was a previous manager of a Chamber of Commerce arranged to have her show the slides taken from her pilgrimage at the local Chamber meeting that night 1 p148 That meeting lead to a meeting at one of the homes of the members who also invited friends One of them declared she would start a class on the religion Charlotte Schwartz The next day Mayberry flew on the Juneau and then Sitka 85 From there she went to Fairbanks 1 p148 86 Then on to Barrow Alaska where the temperature she reports was an unusually warm 39 F below zero 1 p149 There she and the two local Baha is had meetings including one of over 300 people 87 over the objections of the local Christian minister 1 p149 The village had a long standing Presbyterian presence 88 They were limited to meeting with school children s mothers The next day was a presentation at the local theatre 1 p150 From there she flew to Nome for a presentation and the Inuit returned the favor with a dance in her honor Then she was on to the Aleutian Islands and then Kodiak Island 1 pp151 2 Then she returned to the lower 48 states including briefly in Idaho 89 Summer in the South and West Edit That Summer she started close to home 90 and then she was in the outskirts of Dallas for the first time 91 Then she was on to Louisiana including interviews on KWKH and KSLA TV 92 From there she made it to Green Acre Bahaʼi School in October 93 Battleboro NH in October 94 and Keene Teachers College in November 95 Texas 96 Trips there were various into Spring 1959 97 That Spring she was elected to the National Assembly while continuing service as an Auxiliary Board member with Horace Holley then also a Hand of the Cause 1 p153 98 99 A four month trip accompanied by her then 13 yr old son followed and then Myrtle undertook the scatter pioneering goal of a town in Switzerland at the age of 70 1 p154 She gave a talk in Texas 100 and twin events in Phoenix and Albuquerque 99 before leaving While she was away a tape recording of a talk of hers was played locally in Santa Cruz 101 On return she gave local talks back in California 102 To Mexico Edit A brief trip to Alaska in February 1960 103 and she was back in California 104 Hand of the Cause William Sears suggested an auxiliary board member living in Mexico or Central America would be helpful and the Mayberry family decided on Guadalajara Mexico 1 p159 A brief period at Geyserville Bahaʼi School was followed by trips to Latin American countries 105 She was missed at a discussion of race issues the Bahaʼis held in Wilmette Ill 106 She made trips visiting national assemblies by December 1960 107 Then after a return to Mexico City to consult with William Sears she embarked on a trip through a couple cities in Ecuador Colombia and Venezuela in 1961 That year they were each to gain their own national assembly she was present for the Colombian national convention 1 p158 On return from the trip she found she had been elected to the Mexican national assembly 1 p159 108 She met the Pringle family at the San Blas Islands specifically Ustupu and was treated as an official representative of the religion by the island chief or Cacique 1 pp163 5 A trip in the Fall of 1961 followed to Guatemala 1 p171 109 Still she managed a trip to Texas in February 1962 110 and one stop in California in March 111 Moving and trips Edit In early 1963 she also traveled to Nicaragua where she met Hooper Dunbar in Bluefields 1 pp168 170 112 followed by Belize 113 and Honduras 1 p174 Then she attended the first international convention to elect the first Universal House of Justice as one of the national assembly members from Mexico 1 p184 delegates that vote for the Universal House of Justice are the members of the National Assemblies and then joined the first Bahaʼi World Congress in London 1 p186 Then she was in Texas in July 114 and Alaska in August 115 She visited with the Kolstoe family 1 p178 John Kolstoe is a writer of several books related to the religion 116 The Mayberry family moved back to Santa Paula through the summer of 1963 1 p192 Part of the motivation for moving back might have been her son s burgeoning family In three years should be described as a grandmother of three 117 Mayberry s first book a children s book entitled The Dachshunds of Mama Island came out in late 1963 118 Advertised as a Doubleday book for young readers 119 and was recommended in The Saturday Review 120 The book is set in Sitka Alaska In late 1963 she recalled hearing of the Assassination of President Kennedy while in one of the villages in the Yucatan 1 p182 1 p180 121 She gave a talk for World Religion Day in Chicago in mid January 1964 122 and just a couple days later in Atlanta Ga 123 and about two weeks later she was in Memphis TN 124 and Texas in at the end of February for Ayyam i Ha a celebratory time for Bahaʼis 125 And Mayberry personally had something to celebrate it was in February that her first of some 32 stories plus reprints would eventually published in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine now the longest running mystery fiction magazine with The Motion Picture in Mrs Leister s Mind in the February 1964 issue 126 She would continue to publish in the magazine into the 1990s In 1965 6 her first story to be anthologized was The Motion Picture in Mrs Leister s Mind in the Ellery Queen s 20th anniversary annual 20 stories from Ellery Queen s mystery magazine 117 127 She made a touch of news as one of the few female Ellery Queen mystery writers 128 In between she spoke at Green Acre Bahaʼi School in early April 1964 129 and then in Battleboro NH 130 There s a break in her travels until Utah in November 131 She was back for the World Religion Day observance in January 1965 and then in February she was in Seattle 132 Then she was in Appleton Wisconsin in April 133 and nearby Oshkosh 134 In May she was first at the US national convention 135 In June she was in Bakersfield CA 136 followed by an ABC radio program panel she was on with Hand of the Cause William Sears and others 137 Then she was at the Davidson Bahaʼi school later it was renamed the Louhelen Bahaʼi School in Michigan through the rest of June 138 Before October she was at a second session of the summer school of southern California 139 followed by a campaign in the area 140 and in Seattle in September 141 She was in Tustin California in October 142 A poem of Mayberry s World Anthem was included in a youth compilation published by the US Bahaʼi Publishing Trust 143 In December she was back at the Davidson Bahaʼi School 144 In early January 1966 she started off in Idaho 145 Then she was at a national assembly coordinated week long series of events for World Religion Day and Mayberry closed the series Sunday evening 146 Before March she was in Seattle 147 But in March her mother Myrtle s health declined and she went into the hospital and died in a few days 1 pp192 4 on March 25 1966 148 In April Mayberry gave a talk in Fresno 149 and May in Utah 150 and Montana 151 In later May she was in New Jersey at a meeting called by Hands of the Cause 152 1966 Sep gave a talk at the Los Angeles Bahaʼi Center 153 and was profiled in the Fresno Bee 117 In the profile she was noted as in the Index of distinguished short stories Best American short stories and is quoted that to write one must be almost ruthless in cutting oneself off from others and giving time oneself time and privacy 117 But she wasn t there for her writing achievements she was in Fresno for Baha i Week coordinated effort to present the religion to the public 117 For March 1967 she was filmed on an interfaith panel in southern California 154 By Ridvan she was at the US national convention 155 At the anniversary observance of the House of Worship in September 1967 Mayberry introduced the Hands of the Cause 156 and in December at another meeting in San Francisco 157 Counsellor Edit 1968 started out similarly to past year In February she was in Montana 158 a recording of her was used in Illinois in March 159 and Spokane Washington in April 160 In April she was in Seattle 161 While she was working at a seasons school perhaps Geyersville she received a phone call about her appointment as a Continental Counselor for North America the telegram went to her home address and her husband called her about it 1 pp195 6 Edna True daughter of Hand of the Cause Corinne Knight True and Lloyd Gardner were named with her 162 She was listed as the contact address for anyone wanting direct contact with the Counselors for North America 163 From December 1968 to March 1969 she assisted at a series of conferences Montreal Oshawa Canada then Atlanta Philadelphia Los Angeles St Louis Phoenix Saskatoon Vancouver 164 She attended the US national convention 165 In June she was at a conference in Halifax 166 and in July she still gave a talk at the Geyersville Baha i school 167 and in August met with Native American Baha is 168 169 and others 170 in Washington state She was also later remembered in Alaska in 1969 171 In 1970 a talk of hers was done close to home in Santa Paula 172 and then at the Geyersville school in September 173 For Ridvan 1970 she was in Alaska 174 During the Oceanic and Continental Conferences series of 1970 71 she was assigned the one in Sapporo Japan held early September 175 and she found that a round the world trip was only a little more expensive 1 p195 She learned how to say a two line greeting in Japanese While in Japan she visited Kyoto 1 p198 Then she went on to Hong Kong Singapore 200 Malaysia in Sept 1971 176 India 200 1 Iran where she managed a visit to the House of the Bab 202 and made her third visit to she accomplished a 3 day pilgrimage 1 p204 Then to the UK where she visited the grave a shrine to Baha is of the Guardian 1 p205 She returned and gave a talk in Los Angeles by January 1971 177 self published source This was followed by a talk in Texas in November 178 and then again back in her home area 179 Shortly after the 1971 San Fernando earthquake William Sears was the central attraction of a conference in Los Angeles Florence appeared at 180 She was in the Alaska national convention in 1971 181 July August she was at a conference in Santa Ana 182 In March 1972 the Counselors of North American held twin conferences in the US Reno Nevada and Fort Wayne Indiana Florence hosted the Reno event assisted by Auxiliary Board members Margaret Gallagher Velma Sherrill Anthony Lease and Paul Pettit 183 Gallagher died in 2001 184 Sherrill was herself appointed a counselor in 1973 185 Lease served until 1986 and died in 2006 186 Paul Pettit died in 2010 187 April she attended the US national convention 188 and made it to the Alaskan one 189 In October she gave a talk in Montana 190 and then Myrtle Beach SC 191 and then the dedication of the Louis Gregory Institute 192 In January 1973 she was a speaker at World Religion Day in San Francisco 193 and in March was giving talks in her home area 194 In May she attended the US national convention 195 and then went on to the world convention to elect the Universal House of Justice and noted there were 1017 delegates 206 Returning from that she visited in Switzerland then Canada On return home she received a call that she had been appointed a Counsellor for the International Teaching Center 1 pp206 7 announced June 5 196 She visited there a few days later 197 and accomplished her move to live in Haifa just as the Yom Kippur War started October 6 1973 1 p208 After a brief stop in Alaska 198 In August 1974 she attended a meetings Kenya 199 and in what was then called Rhodesia 200 October 1976 she was in Germany at a Baha i conference 201 A biographical article was written about her as a writer was published in November 202 January 1977 she was in Australia 203 In October she was at a European conference 204 December she was in Singapore 205 Thailand in January 1977 206 From 1971 to 74 she published more original stories than any other time averaging 3 a year and was anthologized once see bibliography below February 1977 a conference looking at promulgating the religion in Mexico also took place in Merida with more than 2000 Bahaʼis attending 207 One third of the participants were indigenous believers from across Central America 150 of whom were Mayans 208 Non Bahaʼi family members of the Indians were allowed to fully attend the meeting Three Hands of the Cause were present Paul Haney Rahmatu llah Muhajir and Enoch Olinga as well as Counsellor Florence Mayberry David made a trip to Utah 209 Bahaʼi News interviewed her about the institution in 1979 210 According to her biography in 1982 for unsteady health 1 p214 at age 77 both she and David asked to leave the active service as Counselor and she officially retired in 1983 211 And David collapsed twice in the year or two after 1 pp214 5 Retired EditInitially they lived in Idaho but soon moved to the Conway MO area 214 She gave a talk in Spokane that November 212 In 1984 she undertook her 18th trip to Alaska came in the spring 146 Various of the trips had reached from the Arctic Ocean to the Bering Sea through central Alaska and the Aleutian and Kodiak Islands She also met Indian and Inuit peoples and various attitudes they had either finding resonances in the roots of their cultures with the religion or in struggling with the confusion of white man s ways Newspaper coverage is found for her visit to Sitka in April 213 In December she was at a Baha i conference in Hawaii 214 Noted one of the excellent writers somewhat less well known Ellery Queen writers 1984 215 From 1983 1987 mostly reprints of her 1970s stories appeared individually or were collected in anthologies in 1984 and 1986 she was anthologized three times each see bibliography below 1986 in an anthology in an audiobook sold in Australia 216 1989 217 In 1992 93 she wrote new pieces again which were themselves anthologized from then on see bibliography below 1991 anthology Scarlet Letters Tales of Adultery from Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine 218 1994 twice for the same story 219 1995 and 1996 for the same story 220 Once upon a Crime II Stories from Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine No 2 4 5 avg rating 2 ratings by GoodReads9780312143862 Once upon a Crime II Stories from Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine No 2 Publisher St Martins Pr ISBN 9780312143862Husband David preceded her in death dying February 1994 In 1995 she published her autobiography The Great Adventure 1 after working on it for 5 years 221 and had a local book signing 222 and had a brief profile in the LA Times 221 Death EditFlorence died on April 8 1998 The Universal House of Justice telegrammed national assemblies of her passing and then asked the American communities North and South to hold memorials in her memory in general and specifically at the Baha i Houses of Worship in Wilmette Illinois and Panama City 223 the new one in Santiago Chile did not yet exist She is buried in the Marshfield Cemetery Marshfield Missouri Legacy Edit Though she had been anthologized several times in the 1990s before her death she continued to be collected and reprinted in various works as late as 2012 In 2004 her work When Nothing Matters was collected in Fifty Best Mysteries 224 In 2005 her stories Smiling Joe and the Twins and Miz Sammy s Honor was collected and printed in Murder in Retrospect A Selective Guide to Historical Mystery Fiction 225 In 2012 her story The Secret was collected and printed in Outcasts and Angels The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature 226 The Bahaʼis have also established a seasonal Bahaʼi school under the sponsorship of the US National Spiritual Assembly named after her 227 Kevin Locke performed there in 2011 228 Bibliography EditShe wrote new stories for the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine annually from 1968 to 1979 and was in print annually from 1968 to 1987 There were three peaks of activity in 1971 4 she published more original stories than any other time averaging 3 a year and was anthologized once in 1983 1987 mostly reprints of these same stories appeared individually or were collected in anthologies in 1984 and 1986 she was anthologized three times each In 1992 3 she wrote new pieces again which were themselves anthologized from then on appearing most recently in 2012 All together some 16 of her 34 short stories have been anthologized as of 2015 with three of them anthologized seven times The Grass Widow The Secret and Smiling Joe and the Twins and 8 published more than once 229 The Red Ball by F V Mayberry Frontier and Midland magazine Jan Feb 1939 230 poem Adam s Black Boy by Florence V Mayberry Common Ground Autumn 1945 pp 22 23 Kiko by Florence V Mayberry The Pacific Spectator 1952 pp 364 78 32 listed among best short stories of 1953 33 children s novel Florence V Mayberry 1964 The dachshunds of Mama Island Doubleday Motion Picture in Mrs Leister s Mind by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine February 1964 pp 58 66 anthologized 1965 117 Out of the Dream Stumbling by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine May 1964 pp 46 56 A Lily in Chrissy s Hand by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine July 1965 pp 57 65 Bitter Vetch by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine March 1968 pp 79 88 Lost Soaring Dream by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine March 1969 pp 128 133 Not Lost Any More by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine September 1969 pp 99 105 Doll Baby by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1970 pp 30 46 The Beauty in That House by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine May 1971 pp 53 65 anthologized 1989 217 The Lady of the Afghans by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine August 1971 pp 131 145 To Find a Millionaire by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1971 pp 18 33 Screen Test by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine February 1972 pp 6 19 The Thing on the Beach by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine July 1972 pp 32 49 So Lonely So Lost So Frightened by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine August 1972 pp 133 146 anthologized 1974 231 Hong Kong or Wherever by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1972 pp 42 56 Monkey Face by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine June 1973 pp 119 133 Woman Trouble by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine October 1973 pp 127 141 anthologized 1986 216 In the Secret Hollow by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1973 pp 107 118 A Goodbye Sound by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine May 1974 pp 121 132 anthologized 1984 232 and 1993 233 Good Night Sweet by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine July 1975 pp 117 127 anthologized 1980 234 Doll Baby by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine March 1976 pp 190 207 repeated from Dec 1970 Till the Day I Die by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine May 1976 pp 53 68 Hong Kong or Wherever by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine March 1977 pp 259 273 repeated from Dec 1972 The Grass Widow by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine August 1977 pp 39 54 anthologized 1979 235 and 1992 236 Woman Trouble by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine March 1978 pp 252 266 repeated from Oct 1973 anthologized 1986 216 No Tomorrows by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine June 1978 pp 117 124 A Goodbye Sound by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine September 1978 pp 169 180 repeated from May 1974 anthologized 1984 232 When Nothing Matters by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1979 pp 69 78 anthologized 2004 224 The Girl Downstairs by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine January 28 1981 pp 59 69 Lady in the Black Cape by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine May 1982 pp 59 73 Where Are the Birds by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine August 1982 pp 112 125 The Hallucination by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine January 1983 pp 21 29 A Goodbye Sound by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Summer 1983 pp 26 37 repeated from May 1974 anthologized 1984 232 Woman Trouble by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Fall 1983 pp 62 75 repeated from Oct 1973 anthologized 1986 216 No Tomorrows by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Fall 1984 pp 210 216 repeated from June 1978 Widow by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine June 1985 pp 90 105 The Beauty in That House by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Summer 1987 pp 92 103 repeated from May 1971 anthologized 1989 217 Miz Sammy s Honor by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine June 1992 pp 42 58 anthologized 2005 225 The Stranger by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine November 1992 pp 110 123 The Secret by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine December 1992 pp 108 123 anthologized 1995 1996 and 2012 220 Smiling Joe and the Twins by Florence V Mayberry Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine September 1993 pp 30 55 anthologized 1994 219 and 2005 225 auto biography Florence Mayberry 1 January 1994 The Great Adventure Nine Pines Publishing ISBN 978 1 895456 08 0 Further reading EditFlorence Mayberry 1 January 1994 The Great Adventure Nine Pines Publishing ISBN 978 1 895456 08 0 References Edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co cp cq cr cs ct cu cv cw cx cy cz da db dc dd de df dg dh di dj dk dl dm dn do dp dq dr ds dt du dv dw Florence Mayberry 1 January 1994 The Great Adventure Nine Pines Publishing ISBN 978 1 895456 08 0 Google Map location of Foose in Jackson Township Missouri west of their home near Conway Richard Walton 1914 2005 askART from Edan Milton Hughes Crocker Art Museum November 2002 Artists in California 1786 1940 Crocker Art Museum ISBN 9781884038082 Sheik is often a title but in this case it was actually a name See Santa Paula girl weds Press Courier Oxnard California 3 Sep 1926 Fri Page 4 New religion stars in 69 U S cities Press Courier Oxnard California 31 Jan 1927 Mon Page 3 National press book report Bahaʼi News June 1939 no 126 p 6 Frontier and Midland The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City Utah 5 Feb 1939 Sun Page 12 Teaching activities Bahaʼi News September 1939 no 129 pp 6 7 Hats at the Convention Chicago Tribune Chicago Illinois July 17 1940 p 3 North American Teaching Bahaʼi News October 1941 no 147 pp 7 8 2 To individual Baha is Bahaʼi News August 1936 No 102 pp 2 3 Las Vegas Bahaʼi News October 1942 no 156 p 10 Teaching activities in North America Bahaʼi News November 1942 No 157 pp 3 4 Unfurling the Divine Flag in Tokyo An Early Bahaʼi History by Barbara R Sims 70th Anniversary of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of Reno April 15 2012 Robert Takashi Imagir dancer graphic artist U S A the Cook Islands Arts Dialogue June 2000 Membership of State Convention Committees Bahaʼi News December 1944 No 172 pp 15 16 California Arizona Nevada American Baha i Directory 1945 1946 Bahaʼi News October 1945 p 4 California Nevada Arizona Bahaʼi News July 1943 No 164 p 15 Gerald D Nash 1990 The American West Transformed The Impact of the Second World War U of Nebraska Press pp 105 255 ISBN 0 8032 8360 1 Local assemblies contributing to the national fund July 1947 Bahaʼi News September 1947 No 199 p 4 Adam s Black Boy by Florence V Mayberry Common Ground Autumn 1945 pp 22 23 Baha i World Faith advert The California Eagle Nov 7 1946 p 15 Southern California Arizona Baha i Directory 1947 1948 Bahaʼi News p 5 Sunday Sermons Other Services Spiritual Adventure Los Angeles Times Feb 1 1947 p A2 Sunday Sermons Other Services Baha i Service Los Angeles Times May 17 1947 p A2 Bahaʼi News The California Eage Nov 27 1947 p 15 4 Western States Bahaʼi News April 1949 No 218 p 11 Fifty Paintings in Competition Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Ca Aug 20 1948 p A6 Caligraphs by Adaline Moore The Bakersfield Californian Bakersfield California 18 Jan 1950 Wed Page 12 Baha i World Faith Carlifornia Eagle Apr 27 1950 p 27 Baha i Group will fete World Religion Day The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 18 Jan 1952 Fri Page 7 a b The Pacific Spectator Pacific Coast Committee for the Humanities of the American Council of Learned Societies 1952 pp 364 78 a b The Best American Short Stories and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Houghton Mifflin 1953 p 419 Baha i World Faith Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Ca Jan 17 1953 p A2 Baha i Groups to mark World Religion Day Los Angeles Times Jan 17 1953 p A6 Fresnans will see dedication of Baha i Temple in Illinois The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 18 Apr 1953 Sat Page 5 Florence Mayberry will speak at YWCA Friday night The Independent Record Helena Montana 5 Nov 1953 Thu Page 16 Speaks tonight Florence V Mayberry The Independent Record Helena Montana 6 Nov 1953 Fri Page 10 Baha i Assembly lists speakers Spokane Daily Chronicle Nov 9 1953 p 13 Baha i Speaker Speaker here Friday night Daily Capital Journal Salem Oregon 12 Nov 1953 Thu Page 10 Public presentations of the Faith Bahaʼi News No 275 January 1954 p 5 Dorothy Freeman January 1984 From copper to gold the life of Dorothy Baker G Ronald pp 303 4 ISBN 978 0 85398 178 7 The Brandon University Department of Religion Labyrinth of Peace Project by Angela Conrad c copyright 2003 Brandon University Baha i meeting set Wednesday Wilmington Sunday Star Feb 28 1954 Wilmington Delaware p 65 God s Eternal Plan advert The Baltimore Sun Baltimore Md 12 Mar 1954 p 10 Florence Mayberry speaker at meeting of Baha i Faith Prescott Evening Courier Prescott Arizona Mar 10 1954 p 3 American Hands of Cause appoints auxiliary board Bahaʼi News June 1954 No 280 p 5 Announcement of Auxiliary Board Bahaʼi News June 1954 No 280 p 18 Area conferences Bahaʼi News August 1954 No 282 p 11 What is The Baha i World Faith The Lethbridge Herald Lethbridge Alberta Canada 18 Sep 1954 Sat Page 15 California writer will address Baha i assembly The Independent Record Helena Montana 30 Oct 1954 Sat Page 5 Woman will give two Baha i talks Spokane Daily Chronicle Nov 5 1954 p 6 Baha i in the air Bahaʼi News January 1955 No 287 pp 6 7 Teaching missions of members of the Auxiliary Board October 1954 No 284 p 1 2 Teaching missions by members of the Auxiliary Board Bahaʼi News February 1955 No 288 p 3 Church Women s News by Ruth S Norman March 21 1954 Norman Family Collection West Virginia State Archives 2015 Baha i talk Saturday Eve The Eugene Guard Eugene Oregon 29 Jan 1955 Sat Page 2 At Goulet Home Daily Capital Journal Salem Oregon 29 Jan 1955 Sat Page 7 Speaker Daily Capital Journal Salem Oregon 1 Feb 1955 Tue Page 19 Talk scheduled on Baha i Faith Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 16 Feb 1955 Wed Page 20 Baha is plan brotherhood week observance Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz California 25 Feb 1955 Fri Page 7 Mrs Mayberry s schedule listed Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque New Mexico 18 Mar 1955 Fri Page 20 Baha i group holds meeting The Gallup Independent Gallup New Mexico 20 Mar 1955 Sun Page 9 Mrs Florence Mayberry was driven The Gallup Independent Gallup New Mexico 21 Mar 1955 Mon Page 2 Announces topic Albuquerque Journal Albuquerque New Mexico 24 Mar 1955 Thu Page 2 Baha i speaker will address Provo audience The Daily Herald Provo Utah 14 Apr 1955 Thu Page 19 Californian to give talk on religion The Ogden Standard Examiner Ogden Utah 18 Apr 1955 Mon Page 7 Free public lecture Idaho State Journal Pocatello Idaho 19 April 1955 Page 3 Baha i speaker to appear Idaho State Journal Pocatello Idaho 21 April 1955 Page 10 Baha i in the news Bahaʼi News June 1955 No 292 pp 20 22 see p 22 Baha i lecturer Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 23 Jul 1955 Sat Page 6 Mrs Mayberry Baha i lecturer speaks tonight Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 27 Jul 1955 Wed Page 5 Anchorage Hazira dedication Bahaʼi News August 1955 No 294 p 6 Anchorage Hazira dedicated Bahaʼi News September 1955 No 295 p 4 National News briefs Fairbanks Alaska Bahaʼi News October 1955 No 296 p 14 Ketchikan Assembly gained in 2 years Bahaʼi News August 1956 No 306 p 14 American Hands of the Cause report on Auxliary Board missions Mrs Florence Mayberry Bahaʼi News March 1956 No 301 p 2 Teaching conference talk slated by Baha i members The Eugene Guard Eugene Oregon 15 Oct 1955 Sat Page 2 Writer tells Baha i origins The Eugene Guard Eugene Oregon 24 Oct 1955 Mon Page 6 Florence Mayberry will present lecture Saturday The Independent Record Helena Montana 4 Nov 1955 Fri Page 3 American Auxiliary Board continues visits throughout western hemisphere by Corine True Paul Haney Horace Holley Bahaʼi News May 1956 No 383 p 8 Ogden achieves Assembly status Bahaʼi News July 1957 No 317 p 20 Maui enjoys 4 day teaching program Bahaʼi News May 1956 No 303 p 18 Church Notes Lectures on the Baha i Faith The Milwaukee Journal Mar 24 1956 Milwaukee Wisconsin p 3 Seminar teaching used in four communities Bahaʼi News May 1956 No 303 p 19 Resurrection of Christ called spiritual fact The Milwaukee Journal Apr 2 1956 Milwaukee Wisconsin p 16 Evolution through progressive revelation advert Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Oshkosh Wisconsin 12 Apr 1956 Thu Page 10 Noted speaker to address Bahai group The Galveston Daily News Galveston Texas 15 May 1956 Tue Page 15 A divine institution Bahaʼi News June 1956 No 304 p 9 International Archives by Alice Simmons Cox Bahaʼi News June 1956 No 304 p 13 Baha i official to speak in Marin Friday Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 21 Jul 1956 Sat Page 31 Mrs Florence V Mayberry The Times San Mateo California 24 Jul 1956 Tue Page 15 Baha i World Faith The Times San Mateo California 25 Jul 1956 Wed Page 5 Hands of the Cause tell current plans by Corine True Paul Haney Horace Holley Bahaʼi News September 1956 No 301 pp 3 4 You are cordially invited to hear Los Angeles Times Aug 22 1956 p 10 Grave Far Reaching implications nationwide rally for ten year plan by the National Spiritual Assembly Bahaʼi News August 1957 No 318 p 3 Woman to speak Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Calif 24 Aug 1956 p 2 Florence Mayberry to speak Wednesday Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka Alaska 25 Sep 1956 Tue Page 3 Baha i banquet Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 13 Oct 1956 Sat Page 1 Baha i visitor Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 17 Oct 1956 Wed Page 1 Baha is of Salem and Marion County present a Baha i Faith Seminar Daily Capital Journal Salem Oregon 5 Jan 1957 Sat Page 11 Baha i talks planned here Daily Capital Journal Salem Oregon 7 Jan 1957 Mon Page 18 Final Baha i lecture is tonight at 8 The Ogden Standard Examiner Ogden Utah 22 Jan 1957 Tue Page 12 Baha i Faith schedules conferences The Daily Herald Provo Utah 27 Jan 1957 Sun Page 22 Baha i Faith representative speaks tonight The Daily Herald Provo Utah 30 Jan 1957 Wed Page 3 Formula for peace set by Baha i envoy The Daily Herald Provo Utah 31 Jan 1957 Thu Page 3 3 day seminar on world unity through religion The Times San Mateo California 18 Feb 1957 Mon Page 14 Two lectures on Baha i set on campus Eugene Register Guard Eugene Oregon Jan 3 1957 p 1 Pilgrim Notes recorded after the nightly dinner table talks of the beloved Guardian Shoghi Effendi by Isobel Sabri 1957 Effendi Shoghi 1976 High Endeavours Messages to Alaska National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of Alaska p 79 Spirit of dedication and earnestness characterizes Geyersville sessions by Beatrice Rinde Bahaʼi News October 1957 No 320 p 8 Baha i seminary opens Monday The Montana Standard Butte Montana 1 Sep 1957 Sun Page 13 Seminar on Baha i World Faith advert The Montana Standard Butte Montana 3 Sep 1957 Tue Page 6 Florence Mayberry will address public meetings The Independent Record Helena Montana 8 Sep 1957 Sun Page 5 We cordially invite you advert Greeley Daily Tribune Greeley Colorado 19 Sep 1957 Thu Page 13 Spirit of dedication and earnestness characterizes Geyersville sessions by Beatrice Rinde Bahaʼi News October 1957 No 320 p 8 Seminar series on world Faith starting Sunday The San Bernardino County Sun San Bernardino California 2 Nov 1957 Sat Page 11 Baha i Faith member to talk Sunday Independent Long Beach California 16 Nov 1957 Sat Page 10 American Hands announce appointment of Auxiliary Board for Protection by Corinne True Paul E Haney and Horace Holley Bahaʼi News February 1958 No 324 p 3 Winter Weekend in Las Vegas stresses deepening in Faith Bahaʼi News March 1958 No 325 p 17 Baha i lecturer visiting Sitka Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka Alaska 15 Jan 1958 Wed Page 2 World Religion Day marks ninth annual observance Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 18 Jan 1958 Sat Page 5 Baha ist makes third Alaska visit Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 24 Jan 1958 Fri Page 5 Baha ist to speak Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 28 Jan 1958 Tue Page 1 Bahais to speak Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 28 Jan 1958 Tue Page 1 Northern Alaskan outpost aflame through love of devoted pioneers Bahaʼi News March 1958 No 326 p 18 The Inupiat and the Christianization of Arctic Alaska Ernest S Burch Jr Etudes Inuit Studies 1994 18 1 2 pp 81 108 Ootkeavik Presbyterian Church Barrow Alaska Bonnie Wartes is interviewed by Karen Brewster in Fairbanks Alaska on July 21 2005 University of Alaska Fairbanks July 21 2005 Bonnie Wartes Project Jukebox Digital Branch of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Oral History Program May 24 2004 Yukon Presbytery Celebrates Centenary of Arctic Church Ordination of Inupiat Ministers by John Filiatreau wfn news March 10 1999 Speaker to talk on Bahai Faith Idaho State Journal Pocatello Idaho 20 February 1958 Page 7 Race Amity Day is tomorrow The Times San Mateo California 7 Jun 1958 Sat Page 2 95 students from 11 states attend first southwestern Baha i summery school Bahaʼi News November 1958 No 333 pp 12 13 A Brief History of the Bahaʼi Faith in Dallas 3 25 2014 12 States represented at Baha i meeting Daily Defender Dallas TX Sep 20 1958 p 14 Many groups hear Auxiliary Board member during Brotherhood Week at Baton Rouge Bahaʼi News April 1959 No 338 p 9 Teaching in the Southern States Bahaʼi News May 1959 No 339 pp 11 12 Speaker named at Baha i Center The Portsmouth Herald Portsmouth New Hampshire 16 Oct 1958 Thu Page 3 Mrs Florence Mayberry of Greenfield Recorder Gazette Oct 28 1958 p 13 Mrs Orlando Owen and daughter Greenfield Recorder Gazette Nov 24 1958 p 13 Speaker For Bahai Sect Stresses Human Equality The New Hampshire Oct 23 1958 p 3 Merger Of Two Clubs Effects Greater Variety Of Membership by Beverly Sims The New Hampshire Oct 30 1959 p 2 Baha is from 12 states study at Camp School California Eagle Sep 11 1958 p 16 Mrs Florence V Mayberry The Montreal Gazette Nov 15 1958 p 39 Baha i board member to visit county groups The Galveston Daily News Galveston Texas 8 Feb 1959 Sun Page 15 Baha i official to speak here The Galveston Daily News Galveston Texas 17 Feb 1959 Tue Page 3 Alaska is not a land of pretenses by Sarah Huckaby The Galveston Daily News Galveston Texas 20 Feb 1959 Fri Page 3 National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha is of the United States for 1959 1960 photo caption Bahaʼi News March 1960 No 349 p 4 Election of new NSA Bahaʼi News June 1960 No 351 p 10 a b NCA calls conference to discuss paramount needs of the Ten Year Plan Western States US Supplement to the Bahaʼi News June 1959 No 16 p 1 1000 attend 51st Bahai session here Daily Defender Apr 27 1959 p 5 Feature recorded lecture Tuesday Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz California 21 Aug 1959 Fri Page 8 Baha i lecturer Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 23 Oct 1959 Fri Page 29 Author will address county Bahaʼi meet Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Calif 15 Nov 1959 p 10 Baha is present speaker Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 24 Feb 1960 Wed Page 5 The Bahai community of Altadena Pasadena Independent Pasadena California 17 Mar 1960 Thu Page 12 Bahais greet new year in March 20 Pasadena Independent Pasadena California 10 Mar 1960 Thu Page 11 Countless blessings mark sessions at Geyserville summer school by Raymond Jones and Beatrice Rinde Bahaʼi News December 1960 No 357 pp 17 18 Baha is discuss racial conflicts New York Recorder NYNY Nov 12 1960 p 4 Central American assemblies strengthened by visit of Auxliliary Board member Bahaʼi News December 1960 No 357 p 13 Mexico Bahaʼi News August 1961 No 365 pp 5 6 Indians of Guatemala stirred by visits of Hands of Cause Bahaʼi News September 1961 No 366 p 4 Baha is set lecture at Sheraton The Irving Daily News Texan Irving Texas 14 Feb 1962 Wed Page 12 Mexico lecturer returns to area The Irving Daily News Texan Irving Texas 17 Feb 1962 Sat Page 2 Speaker slates Bahaism talk El Paso Herald Post El Paso Texas 21 Feb 1962 Wed Page 33 Board member to be guest speaker for Baha i Faith Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 5 Mar 1962 Mon Page 13 Nicaragua holds sixth annual summer school Bahaʼi News February 1963 No 383 p 6 British Honduras benefits from visit of Board member Bahaʼi News March 1963 No 384 p 10 Prominent Baha i teacher to talk Express and News San Antonio Texas 7 Jul 1963 Sun Page 4 Public Baha i meeting Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 28 Aug 1963 Wed Page 1 Baha i meeting Sunday Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 31 Aug 1963 Sat Page 1 Baha i speaker Mrs Florence Mayberry to give lectures Fairbanks Daily News Miner Fairbanks Alaska 31 Aug 1963 Sat Page 5 John E Kolstoe 1 January 1985 Consultation A Universal Lamp of Guidance G Ronald ISBN 978 0 85398 186 2 John E Kolstoe 1 January 2011 Compassionate Woman The Life and Legacy of Patricia Locke Baha i Pub ISBN 978 1 931847 85 8 John Kolstoe 26 September 2014 Pondering the Fire Tablet Reflections on Baha u llah s Fire Tablet CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 978 1 5173 7382 5 a b c d e f Writer combines home office by Eva Altintop The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 3 Feb 1966 Thu Page 24 Florence V Mayberry 1964 The Dachshunds of Mama Island Doubleday Doubleday books for young readers Chicago Tribune Nov 10 1963 p K48a Books for Young People The Book and Its Blurb by Alice Dalgliesh The Saturday Review September 21 1963 p 42 3 Mayans of Yucatan respond to Faith Bahaʼi News May 1964 No 398 p 7 Religious Services Baha i Chicago Tribune Chicago Illinois Jan 18 1964 p 6 Mrs Mayberry To Address Baha i Faith Meeting Atlanta Daily World ISSN 1528 6142 1 22 1964 p 3 Baha i Representative Comes To Memphis For Public Meeting Tri State Defender Memphis Tenn 08 Feb 1964 p 8 News Briefs San Antonio and Austin Bahaʼi News May 1964 No 390 p 11 Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Davis Publications Incorporated 1967 p 79 Speaker The Spokesman Review Sep 25 1965 p 4 Crime on my hands by Vivian Mort Chicago Tribune Chicago Illinois Sep 5 1965 p 10 Baha i lecturer to speak here tomorrow night The Portsmouth Herald Portsmouth New Hampshire 6 Apr 1964 Mon Page 14 Author Baha i Speaker Greenfield Recorder Gazette April 11 1964 p 6 World traveler speaks Greenfield Recorder Gazette April 18 1964 p 11 Baha is set public meet The Daily Herald Provo Utah 30 Nov 1964 Mon Page 2 World Religion Day observed throughout the U S Bahaʼi News April 1965 No 409 p 9 The Baha i World Faith advert The Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 19 Apr 1965 Mon Page 7 National board member of Baha i Faith to lecture The Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 20 Apr 1965 Tue Page 28 Tomorrow at 8pm The Post Crescent Appleton Wisconsin 23 Apr 1965 Fri Page 2 Baha i event slated Oshkosh Daily Northwestern Oshkosh Wisconsin 24 Apr 1965 Sat Page 20 Institution of the Hands Bahaʼi News July 1965 No 412 p 4 Bakersfield meeting Those of Baha i faith to stress race unity The Bakersfield Californian Bakersfield California 12 Jun 1965 Sat Page 19 Baha i Distribution and Service Department Panel of Baha is on ABC Network Bahaʼi News August 1965 No 413 p 16 Baha i youth trained for summer service projects at two Baha i schools by Nancy Larson Bahaʼi News September 1965 No 414 p 10 11 Second summer school held at Big Bear Lake California Bahaʼi News October 1965 No 415 p 11 California victory campaign announced Bahaʼi News October 1965 No 415 p 14 News Briefs Auxiliary Board member Mrs Florence Mayberry Bahaʼi News December 1965 No 412 p 23 Baha i lecture Sat at Chapman The Tustin News Tustin California 28 Oct 1965 Thu Page 5 Baha i Publishing trust A New Way of Life October 1965 No 415 p 16 First training institute enkindles pioneering spirit Bahaʼi News February 1966 No 419 p 11 Author to speak on Friday under Baha i sponsorship Idaho State Journal Pocatello Idaho 6 January 1966 Page 8 Author to talk at public meeting tonight Idaho State Journal Pocatello Idaho 7 January 1966 Page 6 World Religion Day activities scheduled Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Ca Jan 12 1966 p SG12 Baha i Faith plans week of Activities The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 22 Jan 1966 Sat Page 5 250 from all over nation will attend Baha i week The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 28 Jan 1966 Fri Page 21 Celebrities here for Baha i week from education science entertainment advert The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 29 Jan 1966 Sat Page 6 9 day Baha i week will end tomorrow The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 5 Feb 1966 Sat Page 4 Public meetings well attended Bahaʼi News March 1966 No 420 pp 12 13 In Memoriam Bahaʼi News Supplement No 100 June 1966 p 2 Mystery writer will give talk The Fresno Bee The Republican Fresno California 23 Apr 1966 Sat Page 6 Coming Events Public Baha i meeting on Viet Nam problem The Daily Herald Provo Utah 3 May 1966 Tue Page 3 Mrs Florence V Mayberry advert Montana Standard Post Butte Montana 9 May 1966 Mon Page 5 Hands call gathering at West Englewood Bahaʼi News September 1966 No 426 p 12 13 Baha i speaker served with United Nations Los Angeles Times Sep 4 1966 p WS3 News Briefs An inter faith and inter racial fellowship potluck Bahaʼi News July 1967 No 436 p 23 Joyous Ridvan Feast and evening with Hand of the Cause Bahaʼi News July 1967 No 436 p 14 The Hands of the Cause Bahaʼi News December 1967 p 16 Board team conference brings light and understanding Bahaʼi News March 1968 No 444 p 3 Baha i lecture Saturday The Independent Record Helena Montana 23 Feb 1968 Fri Page 7 Il Notices Taped panel discussion Daily Illini 22 March 1968 p 9 Uniting force seen in Faith Spokane Daily Chronicle Apr 16 1968 Spokane Washington p 26 Seattle Auxiliary Board team conference Bahaʼi News July 1968 No 448 p 13 Membership of the first Continental Bourds of Counsellors Bahaʼi News August 1968 No 449 p 2 The Continental Board of Counsellors Bahaʼi News September 1968 No 450 p 3 Nine conferences inspire rededication Bahaʼi News June 1969 No 459 p 2 Hands of the Cause addresses the friends Bahaʼi News June 1969 No 459 pp 12 13 Continental Board of Cousellors Deepening Conference photo caption Bahaʼi News September 1969 No 462 p 13 More than 800 persons present at unity Feast The Geyserville Press Jul 31 1969 Geyserville California p 1 Neah Bay hosts Baha i council fire session Port Angeles Evening News Port Angeles Washington 6 Aug 1969 Wed Page 11 The seventh annual Nea Bay Council Fire Bahaʼi News November 1969 No 464 p 17 Baha is slate speaker here Sunday afternoon The Shelton Mason County Journal Shelton Washington Aug 14 1969 p 19 The peoples of God Part 2 Alaska Bahaʼi News July 1978 pp 8 10 Unity Octace program is set world church man will talk Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 10 Jan 1970 Sat Page 19 New Unity octave members Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 17 Jan 1970 Sat Page 20 Baha i summer session ends The Geyserville Press Sep 10 1970 Geyserville California p 1 Ridvan 1970 The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha is of Alaska photo caption Bahaʼi News July 1970 No 472 p 5 Alaska photo caption Bahaʼi News July 1970 No 472 p 11 North Pacific Oceanic Conference Sapporo Japan by Barbara Casterline Bahaʼi News November 1971 No 432 p 13 From America to Malaysia with love Bahaʼi News from Oct 1971 Malaysia Bahaʼi News May 1971 No 495 p 21 Annette Reynolds 7 October 2015 Trudy and the Bahaʼis Spiritual Path in South Carolina Xlibris US p 23 ISBN 978 1 5144 1363 0 Baha i Express and News San Antonio Texas 13 Nov 1971 Sat Page 13 Rights Day talk announced Daily Independent Journal San Rafael California 27 Nov 1971 Sat Page 18 Wake Up America Exhorts Hand of the Cause Sears Bahaʼi News June 1971 No 483 p 1 3 Spiritually Conquer Alaska first Baha i country theme Alaska Convention Bahaʼi News No 484 p 5 California victory conference for Spanish Americans Bahaʼi News October 1971 No 487 p 10 Counsellors sponsor two deepening conferences Bahaʼi News May 1972 No 494 p 10 Margaret Ariel Gallagher Field Sergeant of the Western Frontier by Nevada Metherd edited by Richard Francis 1993 International Teaching Center established in Holy Land Bahaʼi News August 1972 No 509 p 3 4 Anthony Francis LeaseObituary Desert Sun Palm Springs Ca Oct 19 2006 In Memoriam Norman Cluster Newsletter Dec 2010 p 2 United States Convntion 1972 Poised for overwhelming victory Bahaʼi News June 1972 pp 12 16 Teaching momentum from the United States Convention Bahaʼi News September 1972 No 498 p 19 Alaska Convention report Bahaʼi News from June 1972 Alaska Bahaʼi News August 1972 No 497 p 11 Florence Mayberry traveler The Independent Record Helena Montana 6 Oct 1972 Fri Page 15 Lecturer poet to speak here The Independent Record Helena Montana 8 Oct 1972 Sun Page 10 Counsellors conference at Myrtle Beach South Carolina Baha i Faith December 1972 No 501 pp 7 8 Dedication of the Louis G Gregory Baha i Institute by Ruth Hamptonm Bahaʼi News December 1972 No 501 pp 9 10 Church Section Bay Area Church News And Activities Tompkies Leona San Francisco Ca 20 Jan 1973 p 24 Baha i Faith advert Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz California 13 Mar 1973 Tue Page 5 Speaking tonight Santa Cruz Sentinel Santa Cruz California 16 Mar 1973 Fri Page 15 Counsellor Florence Mayberry photo caption Bahaʼi News July 1972 No 508 p 15 International Teachings Centre established in Holy Land Bahaʼi News July 1973 No 508 p 1 International Teaching Centre meets Bahaʼi News September 1973 No 510 p 3 A Baha i community grows matures by Janet W Stout Bahaʼi News October 1981 p 1 6 World Center visitor takes part in meeting Bahaʼi News December 1974 p 9 Counsellor s conference conducted in Salisbury Bahaʼi News December 1974 p 9 10 Institution members meetin in Germany Bahaʼi News January 1976 No 538 p 15 Anne Commrie 17 November 1976 Something about the Author Gale p 86 ISBN 978 0 8103 0068 2 Youth Conference attracts diverse group of Baha is Bahaʼi News February 1977 No 551 p 13 European Counsellors host Boards Assemblies Bahaʼi News January 1979 No 562 pp 10 11 The Southeast Asia Conference by Bret Breneman Bahaʼi News April 1976 No 565 pp 10 11 Thailand 3 new assemblies form Bahaʼi News May 1976 No 566 pp 15 16 Cameron G Momen W 1996 A Basic Bahaʼi Chronology Oxford UK George Ronald pp 259 272 410 445 451 467 469 ISBN 0 85398 404 2 Merida prelude to Expansion Bahaʼi News 551 11 12 February 1977 David Mayberry of Haifa Israel The Daily Herald Provo Utah 27 Apr 1977 Wed Page 17 An interview with Counsellor Florence Mayberry Bahaʼi News April 1979 pp 6 9 Peter Smith 1 October 2013 A Concise Encyclopedia of the Bahaʼi Faith Oneworld Publications p 217 ISBN 978 1 78074 480 3 Baha i Faith Israel s home of the 4th world religion The Spokesman Review Spokane Washington Nov 2 1983 p 3 Sitka Bahai s to get visitor Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka Alaska 6 Apr 1984 Fri Page 3 Baha i Faith lecturer makes stop in Sitka Daily Sitka Sentinel Sitka Alaska 13 Apr 1984 Fri Page 3 Hawaii confers 10th Alexander awards Bahaʼi News March 1985 No 648 p 12 Guy M Townsend 4 September 2010 The Mystery Fancier Vol 8 No 2 March April 1984 Wildside Press LLC p 33 ISBN 978 1 4344 0643 9 a b c d Ellery Queen Presents George Baxt Florence V Mayberry Nedra Tyre Don Mills Ont Audio Language Studies 1986 ISBN 978 0 88646 831 6 a b c Ellery Queen s bad scenes Eleanor Sullivan editor Published by Walker amp Co New York 1989 BOOK REVIEW Scarlet Letters Tales of Adultery from Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine Publishers Weekly July 5 1991 238 29 July 5 1991 p59 a b Janet Hutchings 1994 Once Upon a Crime Historical Mysteries from Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine St Martin s Press ISBN 978 0 312 11032 1 OCLC 29844933 The Crooked Road Dell Magazines 1994 p Acknowledgements GGKEY 2S6RWTESTA1 a b Cynthia Manson Death of the Verandah Mystery stories of the South from Ellery Queen s mystery magazine and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazine edited by Cynthia Manson a b Santa Paula Bahai speaker shares her life with readers by Christina Lima Los Angeles Times Ventura West Edition Los Angeles Ca 13 May 1995 p 2 Local Paintings Flavor a Harvest Cookbook Poetry travel and vice are on the bill at area bookstores this week by Frances Halpern Los Angeles Times Ventura West Edition Los Angeles Ca 11 May 1995 p 7 Passing of Florence Mayberry Former Counselor and Member of the International Teaching Center Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986 2001 by Universal House of Justice Wilmette Illinois Bahaʼi Publishing Trust 2009 a b Eleanor Sullivan 2004 Fifty Best Mysteries Carroll amp Graf pp 7 ISBN 0 7867 1347 X a b c Michael Burgess Jill H Vassilakos 2005 Murder in Retrospect A Selective Guide to Historical Mystery Fiction Libraries Unlimited p 165 ISBN 978 1 59158 087 4 Outcasts and Angels The New Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature Edna Edith Sayers Editor ISBN 1 56368 539 6 978 1 56368 539 2 Date 2012 Publisher Gallaudet UP 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