Futurist Stories

Margery Reed, the accomplished daughter of Verner and Mary Reed, was “one whose life was always youth.” While she spoke German, French and Italian fluently, Margery had a love affair with the English language and wrote poetry, prose and powerful short stories filled with imagery and poetic phrasing. However, her real love was being at the University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1919, published two books and met her husband. As an eager young assistant professor in the English Department, Margery met and fell in love with fellow English professor Paul Mayo.

Margery graduated from the University of Denver (DU) in 1919. She married Paul T. Mayo January 3, 1920. In the fall of 1924, her husband's assignment with the United States Diplomatic Corps took them to Lima, Peru. The following May she returned, ill, to her mother's home in Denver, and died on 19 May 1925 at 30 years of age. She was buried in the family's mausoleum.