"" In loving memory and the memory of love - Timothy Nicholas Peter""∼Johanna Davis, the 36-year-old author of the novel "Life Signs," was struck and killed by a taxicab Thursday night while walking with her 11-year-old son outside her apartment building in Greenwich Village, the police reported.
Mrs. Davis, the wife of Peter Davis, the television producer, was fatally injured when one of two cabs that had collided at the intersection of West Fourth and Charles Street mounted the sidewalk and struck her, according to investigators.
The impact hurled Mrs. Davis into a mailbox, the police said, inflicting a head injury. She was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital. Her son, Timothy, was not injured in the accident, which occurred at 6 P.M. outside the victim's residence at 63 Charles Street.
According to the police, one of the two cabs that collided in the intersection had failed to observe the stop sign. The driver was given a summons, and the police said an investigation was continuing to determine whether additional charges would be filed. From The New York Times online. Article -- July 27, 1974, Page 30.
Additional information from the Find-A-Grave Contributor follows:
Johanna "Josie" (Mankiewicz) Davis was born on October 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Sara Sulamith (Aaronson) Mankiewicz and late Herman J. Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for "Citizen Kane" in 1941.
Besides her mother, Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband, Peter Davis, the television producer (Hearts and Minds); sons, Timothy and Nicholas Davis; brothers, Don and Frank Mankiewicz; uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Hollywood film maker; aunt, Erna (Mankiewicz) Stenbuck; nieces; nephews; cousins; other relatives and friends.
Please note: "Life Signs" written by Mrs. Davis is not longer in print.
Johanna Mankiewicz Davis is mentioned in, "Pictures Will Talk - The Life and Films of Joseph Mankiewicz" by Kenneth L. Geist, Copyright 1978, ISBN 0-684-15500-1. See Pages 160, 235, 285, 286, 290 note, 291 and 355. Her picture is included with family members in two pictures as well (one from 1941 and one from 1958).
Mrs. Davis, the wife of Peter Davis, the television producer, was fatally injured when one of two cabs that had collided at the intersection of West Fourth and Charles Street mounted the sidewalk and struck her, according to investigators.
The impact hurled Mrs. Davis into a mailbox, the police said, inflicting a head injury. She was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital. Her son, Timothy, was not injured in the accident, which occurred at 6 P.M. outside the victim's residence at 63 Charles Street.
According to the police, one of the two cabs that collided in the intersection had failed to observe the stop sign. The driver was given a summons, and the police said an investigation was continuing to determine whether additional charges would be filed. From The New York Times online. Article -- July 27, 1974, Page 30.
Additional information from the Find-A-Grave Contributor follows:
Johanna "Josie" (Mankiewicz) Davis was born on October 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Sara Sulamith (Aaronson) Mankiewicz and late Herman J. Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for "Citizen Kane" in 1941.
Besides her mother, Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband, Peter Davis, the television producer (Hearts and Minds); sons, Timothy and Nicholas Davis; brothers, Don and Frank Mankiewicz; uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Hollywood film maker; aunt, Erna (Mankiewicz) Stenbuck; nieces; nephews; cousins; other relatives and friends.
Please note: "Life Signs" written by Mrs. Davis is not longer in print.
Johanna Mankiewicz Davis is mentioned in, "Pictures Will Talk - The Life and Films of Joseph Mankiewicz" by Kenneth L. Geist, Copyright 1978, ISBN 0-684-15500-1. See Pages 160, 235, 285, 286, 290 note, 291 and 355. Her picture is included with family members in two pictures as well (one from 1941 and one from 1958).
"" In loving memory and the memory of love - Timothy Nicholas Peter""∼Johanna Davis, the 36-year-old author of the novel "Life Signs," was struck and killed by a taxicab Thursday night while walking with her 11-year-old son outside her apartment building in Greenwich Village, the police reported.
Mrs. Davis, the wife of Peter Davis, the television producer, was fatally injured when one of two cabs that had collided at the intersection of West Fourth and Charles Street mounted the sidewalk and struck her, according to investigators.
The impact hurled Mrs. Davis into a mailbox, the police said, inflicting a head injury. She was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital. Her son, Timothy, was not injured in the accident, which occurred at 6 P.M. outside the victim's residence at 63 Charles Street.
According to the police, one of the two cabs that collided in the intersection had failed to observe the stop sign. The driver was given a summons, and the police said an investigation was continuing to determine whether additional charges would be filed. From The New York Times online. Article -- July 27, 1974, Page 30.
Additional information from the Find-A-Grave Contributor follows:
Johanna "Josie" (Mankiewicz) Davis was born on October 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Sara Sulamith (Aaronson) Mankiewicz and late Herman J. Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for "Citizen Kane" in 1941.
Besides her mother, Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband, Peter Davis, the television producer (Hearts and Minds); sons, Timothy and Nicholas Davis; brothers, Don and Frank Mankiewicz; uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Hollywood film maker; aunt, Erna (Mankiewicz) Stenbuck; nieces; nephews; cousins; other relatives and friends.
Please note: "Life Signs" written by Mrs. Davis is not longer in print.
Johanna Mankiewicz Davis is mentioned in, "Pictures Will Talk - The Life and Films of Joseph Mankiewicz" by Kenneth L. Geist, Copyright 1978, ISBN 0-684-15500-1. See Pages 160, 235, 285, 286, 290 note, 291 and 355. Her picture is included with family members in two pictures as well (one from 1941 and one from 1958).
Mrs. Davis, the wife of Peter Davis, the television producer, was fatally injured when one of two cabs that had collided at the intersection of West Fourth and Charles Street mounted the sidewalk and struck her, according to investigators.
The impact hurled Mrs. Davis into a mailbox, the police said, inflicting a head injury. She was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Vincent's Hospital. Her son, Timothy, was not injured in the accident, which occurred at 6 P.M. outside the victim's residence at 63 Charles Street.
According to the police, one of the two cabs that collided in the intersection had failed to observe the stop sign. The driver was given a summons, and the police said an investigation was continuing to determine whether additional charges would be filed. From The New York Times online. Article -- July 27, 1974, Page 30.
Additional information from the Find-A-Grave Contributor follows:
Johanna "Josie" (Mankiewicz) Davis was born on October 2, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. She was the daughter of Sara Sulamith (Aaronson) Mankiewicz and late Herman J. Mankiewicz, who wrote the screenplay for "Citizen Kane" in 1941.
Besides her mother, Mrs. Davis is survived by her husband, Peter Davis, the television producer (Hearts and Minds); sons, Timothy and Nicholas Davis; brothers, Don and Frank Mankiewicz; uncle, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the Hollywood film maker; aunt, Erna (Mankiewicz) Stenbuck; nieces; nephews; cousins; other relatives and friends.
Please note: "Life Signs" written by Mrs. Davis is not longer in print.
Johanna Mankiewicz Davis is mentioned in, "Pictures Will Talk - The Life and Films of Joseph Mankiewicz" by Kenneth L. Geist, Copyright 1978, ISBN 0-684-15500-1. See Pages 160, 235, 285, 286, 290 note, 291 and 355. Her picture is included with family members in two pictures as well (one from 1941 and one from 1958).
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