Thalia Massie

Thalia Fortescue Massie (February 14, 1911 – July 3, 1963) was a member of a socially prominent U.S. family involved in a series of heavily publicized trials in Hawaii.

Life Thalia Fortescue was born February 14, 1911, in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Grace Hubbard Fortescue (1883–1979). Through her mother, she was a grandniece (and cousin twice removed) of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of telephone. Her father was Granville Roland Fortescue (1875–1952) by steamer to Dover. After depositing the children at the home of her sister Helen in London, their mother traveled to Warsaw to join their father at the front. Their father, although wounded in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, survived the war and the family returned to the United States. Due to his military career, he was often absent from his children's lives while their mother was occupied with her life as a socialite, and seldom had time for her daughters. They divorced in 1955. She died of an overdose of barbiturate pills in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 3, 1963.

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