Helen Avalynne Gibson Tawes (1898-1989)
MSA SC 3520-2292
First Lady of Maryland, 1959-1967

1.  "Former First Lady Avalynne Tawes dies at her home," source unknown, The Lillian Nutt Collection, MSA SC 4956.  "Md.'s Former First Lady Is Turning 90," The Daily Times, 9 October 1988.  Woodrow T. Wilson, Crisfield, Maryland 1676-1976. (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1977), 400, cites no birthday but only a birth year of 1896.

2.  "Helen Avalynne Tawes is dead at 90," The Baltimore Sun, 19 July 1989.

3.  Audrey Bishop, "Maryland's First Family," The Baltimore Sun Magazine, 16 March 1959, 17, MSA SC 1456-1052.

4.  Betty G. Hocker, letter to Frances Hughes Glendening, 18 April 1995, MSA SC 3520-2292.

5.  Ibid.

6.  "Md.'s Former First Lady Is Turning 90," The Daily Times, 9 October 1988.

7.  Woodrow T. Wilson, Crisfield, Maryland 1676-1976 (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1977), 400.

8.  George H. Callcott, Maryland and America: 1940-1980 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 173.

9.  "Helen Avalynne Tawes is dead at 90," The Baltimore Sun, 19 July 1989.

10.  Ibid.

11.  "House Resolution No. 28," Journal of Proceedings of the House of Delegates of Maryland (February 1964) MdHR 82 #01154/01157, 317.

12.  "Former First Lady Avalynne Tawes dies at her home," source unknown.  The Lillian Nutt Collection, MSA SC 4956.

13.  Conley H. Dillon, ed.  Messages, Addresses, and Public Papers of  J. Millard Tawes, vol. 1 (Annapolis: State of Maryland, 1967), 102.

14.  "Former First Lady Avalynne Tawes dies at her home," source unknown. The Lillian Nutt Collection, MSA SC 4956.

15.  Frank F. White, Jr. The Governors of Maryland: 1777-1970 (Annapolis: Hall of Records Commission, 1970), 298.

16.  The Helen Avalynne Tawes Garden: A Self-Guided Tour of Maryland (Annapolis:  Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1975).

17.  "Helen Avalynne Tawes is dead at 90," The Baltimore Sun, 19 July 1989.  Richard Pollak, "Portraits of Five Maryland First Ladies Being Unveiled," The Baltimore Sun, 18 December 1961.

18.  Richard Pollak, "Portraits of Five Maryland First Ladies Being Unveiled," The Baltimore Sun, 18 December 1961.

19.  "Portraits of First Ladies and Official Hostesses of Maryland from the State Collection" (Annapolis: The Maryland Commission on Artistic Property, 1995).

20.  "J. Millard Tawes: What His Day is Like Now," The Baltimore Sun Magazine, 8 April 1979, 6.

21.  "Helen Avalynne Tawes is dead at 90," The Baltimore Sun, 19 July 1989.

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