HELEN T. EGAN

EGAN--Helen. On Labor Day Weekend, we remember Helen Teresa McNamara Egan, who left us on January 13, 2013, with love and gratitude. She was the beloved wife of the art dealer Charles Egan, founder of the Egan Gallery, who died in 1993; mother of Kevin Egan, of Ventura, CA; and grandmother to Molly, of Brooklyn, NY, and Galen, Liam, and Taig. Born in Pittsburgh on April 26, 1927, she graduated from Carnegie Tech in 1949; moving to New York, she worked in publishing for 50 years, starting at the New American Library and eventually becoming a managing editor at the Viking Press, Warner Books, and the Metropolitan Museum. Wherever she worked, she was known for her professionalism and collegiality, and especially for her energetic mentoring of newcomers to the industry. Like her husband, her greatest memorial is the success of those she helped to get their start: she is forever in our hearts.