Margaret Anne Drew

Margaret Anne Drew (née Hicks) left us on February 4th, 2018, just as the Philadelphia Eagles were wresting a victory from the New England Patriots. This is apt, because Margaret could not have cared less about football. Rather, she cared deeply for her children, her work, outdoor adventure, international travel and a well-crafted iced coffee. Born to Margaret and Hugh Byron Hicks on June 20, 1936 in Rockwood, Tennessee, Margaret Anne, as her childhood friends knew her, grew up swimming in the lakes of the Tennessee Valley Authority and competing in war canoe at Camp Nakanawa near Crossville. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from the Women’s College at Duke University in 1958, and then moved to New York City with dreams of becoming a fashion model, and indeed walked the runway for the Ford Modeling Agency one summer. Instead, she soon found herself working as a school teacher in Dumfries, Scotland, followed by a somewhat clumsy stint as the wife of a minister in the small town of Waxhaw, North Carolina. She then earned an M.A. in Education from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she served as Assistant to the Dean of Women, and followed her husband to Colorado, where she attended graduate school in psychology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1972, while pregnant with her third child, Margaret defended her dissertation investigating the role biofeedback could play in the treatment of asthma to earn her Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She then went on to work more than 40 years as a licensed psychologist, with private practices in Denver, Colorado and La Jolla, California. During this time, her career as a devoted therapist was punctuated by the tragic loss of her newborn son, John, as well as happy adventures in Ireland, Greece, Spain, China, Nepal, Brazil, Peru and Patagonia. She was passionately committed to her work but loved to explore new places and relished being the life of any party. But mostly, perhaps more than anything, she was profoundly proud of her three children—Kent Byron Davis, Gregory Keith Davis and Margaret Karen Davis—and her six grandchildren—Zane, Iver, Alex, Ellie, Ethan and Rachelle.