Missing Pamela

Martin, Pamela Ann

MARTIN, PAMELA ANN TAYLOR, of Cambridge, MA, passed away on July 7, 2009, at her home. Born in Philadelphia, Pa. on September 8, 1946 and raised in Wildwood Crest, NJ, she graduated Wildwood High School Class of 1964, and graduated the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus in June, 1968. She then attended Cambridge University in Cambridge, England during the Summer of 1968, and graduated Boston University School of Law with her Juris Doctorate Degree in 1971. She wrote for the Boston Law Review on the legalities and ill-legalities of Richard Nixon’s Invasion of Cambodia, and worked with William Kunstlers’ defense of the Chicago 8 from the riots during the 1968 Democratic Convention. In 1971, she opened Geller, Miller, Taylor & Weinberg, a neighborhood law firm representing the less privileged in Cambridge, MA. She worked for the greater Boston Legal Services, worked as an Assistant District Attorney with the Middlesex Juvenile Justice Division, Commonworth Of Massachusetts, and taught law at Boston University School of Law.

Pam met and married Richard Martin from London, U.K., moved to England in 1986. She returned to school and received her English law degree, and worked with the law firm of Jay Benning & Peltz in their criminal and civil litigation division, completing her career with The Financial Services Authority, London, U.K. as a solicitor consultant. Richard passed and Pam returned to Cambridge, MA, where she lived in retirement until her passing.

Pam is survived by her father, Allen B. Taylor, Jr.; a sister, Debbie McAlarnen and her husband, Francis; her brother, Allen E. and his wife, Lisa; step-children both here and abroad; many nieces and nephews; great nieces and great nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, Dorothy L. Taylor.

Pam will be laid to rest on Wednesday, July 15, 2009, at the Cold Spring Presbyterian Cemetery located on Seashore Road in Lower Township. Friends may call at 1 p.m. for a graveside service. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity or The ALS Association, Julie McKeever, 321 Norristown Rd., Ste. 260, Ambler, PA 19002 in Pam’s name.

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In September, a gathering was organized by Pam’s dear friend and colleague, Phil Weinberg. We shared photographs, stories, some tears, some laughter. Family members told stories of the Pamela we never knew, the high school student, the wonderful young sailor. The world has lost a splendid woman, a brilliant wit and intellect, a selfless and devoted friend to those she held close, and a righteous warrior for justice. I read this poem by W. H. Auden:

Law, Like Love