1. Alzira Handforth Peirce Albaugh was an American artist.
16 Facts About Alzira Peirce
1. 2.
Alzira Peirce painted, sculpted, and drew many works of art.
3.
Alzira Peirce taught art to sailors on leave at the International Seamen's Union.
4.
Alzira Peirce worked for the Red Cross during World War II for nearly two years.
5.
Alzira Peirce was captain of the American Red Cross Motor Corps and was the chief of motor corps training of the Rockland County Civilian Protection Group.
6.
Alzira Peirce worked organizing units of the driving Corps, training them, and supervising their operations.
7.
Alzira Peirce rose from officer to captain and conducted the training unit for OC.
8.
Alzira Peirce was assigned to a district of the park system which included a section of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, Fourth Precinct, Second District Rockland Lake, New York, June 7,1942.
9.
Alzira Peirce was cited by the municipality of Haverstraw, Rockland County, New York, on September 26,1942, for her work with the motor corps.
10.
Mellen Chamberlain Alzira Peirce is an active poet and playwright who lives in London.
11.
Alzira Peirce's wife is Gareth Peirce, the human rights activist attorney for the Birmingham Six and Gerry Conlon and the Guildford Four.
12.
Alzira Peirce married again to Chuck Albaugh having her fourth child, Kathleen Swoboda.
13.
Alzira Peirce was commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Art, a New Deal agency, to paint two murals.
14.
Alzira Peirce moved to New Mexico and worked as an organizer for the United Mine Workers union.
15.
Alzira Peirce Albaugh died in 2010, aged 102, from sepsis in Brighton, Massachusetts.
16.
Alzira Peirce was survived by her two sons, her younger daughter; Kathleen, and nine grandchildren.