Hendersonville, North Carolina
Age 70
Pauline (Polly) Eskenasy McGilvraPauline (Polly) Eskenasy McGilvra, 70, died June 21, 2018.Born in Holyoke MA, Polly was a proud graduate of the Northampton School for Girls and Harvard University. She earned her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Culture from Harvard and was a dedicated scholar,...
Read MoreSo sorry to learn this news. I knew her when she was in Cambridge while Doug was in my late husband´s seminar, one of his favorite students. Met Jonathan also when he was very young. Polly was a warm, intelligent, generous and supportive person and it surprises me not at all that she later went into the therapy field. All best wishes to Doug, Jonathan and their family.
Martha Potter Kim
March 26, 2024 | Other
What a sweet spirit.
Bill Obermiller
July 31, 2018 | Hendersonville, NC
Thank you for your kind thoughts and memories. Polly was my sweet sister and your words are comforting to remind me how she touched many lives with love and humor, scholarship and spirituality.
Diane Eskenasy
July 08, 2018 | Hendersonville, NC
When Polly was at Harvard she told of how she was in Arabic class with Karim Jabar, she also took a piece of textile i collected on a mountain top in Amasya Turkey back back to Harvard and her friends identified it as Celgic Turk. I would have loved to be one of her students. She and i commuted to UMASS in grandpa Jakes Cadillac, what a hoot when i parked it outside my Jackson Parkway housing project home. She was a sweet and loving person who i am sure will be sorely missed by
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July 07, 2018
She had exceptional intelligence and compassion. I hadn't seen her for 20 years and assumed she was enjoying a magnificent life in Florida. What a shock to read of her illness! I had total respect and admiration for her.
Mary Trowbridge
July 06, 2018 | Hendersonville, NC
Our love and sympathies to the family. Polly always had a wonderful smile and a kind word. She will be missed.
Suzanne Barowsky
July 06, 2018 | Chicopee, MA
Diane and family, I am so sorry for your loss. My deepest condolences to all who knew and loved Polly.
Penny Bolton
July 06, 2018 | Colchester, VT