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She is wearing a hat, her eyes are downcast, and she has high cheekbones, sagging jowls and a knowing half smile. A certain wisdom or beneficence seems to exude from her face, and she radiates beauty. He also did a portrait in pencil and gave it to the subject, Leon Bankoff, who was a fellow student with Frank in Professor Hunt’s Medicine’s Michelangelo informal art group at CCNY. 59 Everyone who knew Frank knew that he would do something in art, whether fine art, illustration or cartoons. Yet Esther’s admonitions haunted him.
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Ella Mariah McFadyen 1902 - 1970 Ralph Mills 1905 - 1985 Mary MacFadyen 1898 - 1960 1923 - 2009 1830 - 1900 1870 - 1932 Bernice (Doodle) McFadyen 1895 - 1965 Cornelia Ann Robbins Catherine Rebecca Musgrave m. 1870 -1933 Oscar Lee McFadyen m. 1905 - 1977 Mary Lucille Mills 1928 - 2009 Cornelia Ann Netter 1933 - 2011 1910 - 2000 1912 - 1950 Frank Henry Netter 1906 - 1991 James Musgrave Netter Frank Netter 1934 - 1993 m. Cornelia Irene Lucille Evelyn (Renie) McFadyen McFadyen Jonathan MacFadyen Netter 1938 - 1945 - Francine Mary Netter 1944 - McFadyen family tree.