Maria was the wife of William Howard Calfee and Richard L. Hawkins.
Obituary from "The Washington Post," July 25, 2001:
Maria Peverini Hawkins, 86, a member of Washington's St. Alban's Episcopal Church who was an actress and nightclub entertainer in the 1930s and 1940s and and an administrative assistant to Realtor John Gill in the 1950s and 1960s, died of an aneurysm July 18 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She had homes there and in the District.
Mrs. Hawkins was a native of Rome, whose family settled in Washington in 1934. She attended Central High School and then took the stage name "Ariel," working as a dancer and singer at Washington nightspots that included Ciro's, Famous Village, El Patio and the Uptown.
She also was an actress and a model for artists. She posed for Dan Olney for his sculpture of A Woman With a Unicorn, part of the collection at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. She worked for the Italian Embassy in the 1950s.
In 1935, she married painter and sculptor William H. Calfee, who was later chairman of American University's art department. They worked as teachers in Tennessee for a New Deal agency, the Resettlement Administration, after their marriage. They divorced in 1949.
Her second husband, Richard L. Hawkins, died in 1986.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Adriana Maria Calfee Sumner of Davie, Fla., and Richard Howard Calfee of Germantown; two children from her second marriage, Richard Hawkins of Washington and Fort Lauderdale and Yolanda Hawkins of New York; a brother; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Obituary from "The Washington Post," July 25, 2001:
Maria Peverini Hawkins, 86, a member of Washington's St. Alban's Episcopal Church who was an actress and nightclub entertainer in the 1930s and 1940s and and an administrative assistant to Realtor John Gill in the 1950s and 1960s, died of an aneurysm July 18 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She had homes there and in the District.
Mrs. Hawkins was a native of Rome, whose family settled in Washington in 1934. She attended Central High School and then took the stage name "Ariel," working as a dancer and singer at Washington nightspots that included Ciro's, Famous Village, El Patio and the Uptown.
She also was an actress and a model for artists. She posed for Dan Olney for his sculpture of A Woman With a Unicorn, part of the collection at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. She worked for the Italian Embassy in the 1950s.
In 1935, she married painter and sculptor William H. Calfee, who was later chairman of American University's art department. They worked as teachers in Tennessee for a New Deal agency, the Resettlement Administration, after their marriage. They divorced in 1949.
Her second husband, Richard L. Hawkins, died in 1986.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Adriana Maria Calfee Sumner of Davie, Fla., and Richard Howard Calfee of Germantown; two children from her second marriage, Richard Hawkins of Washington and Fort Lauderdale and Yolanda Hawkins of New York; a brother; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Maria was the wife of William Howard Calfee and Richard L. Hawkins.
Obituary from "The Washington Post," July 25, 2001:
Maria Peverini Hawkins, 86, a member of Washington's St. Alban's Episcopal Church who was an actress and nightclub entertainer in the 1930s and 1940s and and an administrative assistant to Realtor John Gill in the 1950s and 1960s, died of an aneurysm July 18 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She had homes there and in the District.
Mrs. Hawkins was a native of Rome, whose family settled in Washington in 1934. She attended Central High School and then took the stage name "Ariel," working as a dancer and singer at Washington nightspots that included Ciro's, Famous Village, El Patio and the Uptown.
She also was an actress and a model for artists. She posed for Dan Olney for his sculpture of A Woman With a Unicorn, part of the collection at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. She worked for the Italian Embassy in the 1950s.
In 1935, she married painter and sculptor William H. Calfee, who was later chairman of American University's art department. They worked as teachers in Tennessee for a New Deal agency, the Resettlement Administration, after their marriage. They divorced in 1949.
Her second husband, Richard L. Hawkins, died in 1986.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Adriana Maria Calfee Sumner of Davie, Fla., and Richard Howard Calfee of Germantown; two children from her second marriage, Richard Hawkins of Washington and Fort Lauderdale and Yolanda Hawkins of New York; a brother; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Obituary from "The Washington Post," July 25, 2001:
Maria Peverini Hawkins, 86, a member of Washington's St. Alban's Episcopal Church who was an actress and nightclub entertainer in the 1930s and 1940s and and an administrative assistant to Realtor John Gill in the 1950s and 1960s, died of an aneurysm July 18 at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She had homes there and in the District.
Mrs. Hawkins was a native of Rome, whose family settled in Washington in 1934. She attended Central High School and then took the stage name "Ariel," working as a dancer and singer at Washington nightspots that included Ciro's, Famous Village, El Patio and the Uptown.
She also was an actress and a model for artists. She posed for Dan Olney for his sculpture of A Woman With a Unicorn, part of the collection at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington. She worked for the Italian Embassy in the 1950s.
In 1935, she married painter and sculptor William H. Calfee, who was later chairman of American University's art department. They worked as teachers in Tennessee for a New Deal agency, the Resettlement Administration, after their marriage. They divorced in 1949.
Her second husband, Richard L. Hawkins, died in 1986.
Survivors include two children from her first marriage, Adriana Maria Calfee Sumner of Davie, Fla., and Richard Howard Calfee of Germantown; two children from her second marriage, Richard Hawkins of Washington and Fort Lauderdale and Yolanda Hawkins of New York; a brother; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
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