Marie Menken

Marie Menken was born Marie Menkevicius in New York City on May 25 1909 the daughter of Catholic Lithuanian immigrants She grew up in Brooklyn with a brother and a sister in a home used to frequent financial difficulties Both she and her sister Adele later changed their surname to Menken Marie Menken and Willard Maas had got married in 1937 moving into a Brooklyn penthouse at 62 Montague Street which they would inhabit until their deaths She died on December 29 1970 Four days after her death on January 2 1971 Willard Maas died