Pauline 'Polly' McCoskey
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Pauline "Polly" McCoskey, 79, a commercial artist, died of a stroke Feb. 22 at Montgomery General Hospital in Olney. She was a Rockville resident. Mrs. McCoskey was a self-employed artist for her entire adult life, working with paint, sculpture and mixed media.
She won an award in a Montgomery Mall art show in 1979 and discussed her work in 2006 at the Brookside Gardens' Spring Conservatory Display and Sculpture Show.
Born in Arizona, she moved to Takoma Park as a child in the mid-1930s. She graduated from  Coolidge High School and Bucknell University. She was a member of  Warner Memorial Presbyterian Church, the Women's Club of Chevy Chase, Manor Country Club and the Rockville Art League.
Her husband of 54 years, Robert McCoskey, died in 2005.
Survivors include two sons, Bill McCoskey of Taneytown and John McCoskey of Derwood; and two grandchildren.
-- Patricia Sullivan