Bess Lomax Hawes Dies

Bess Lomax Hawes, who sang with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, co-wrote the Kingston Trio's hit "M.T.A." and helped preserve American folk arts as an official of the National Endowment for the Arts, died Nov. 27 at a hospital in Portland, Ore., after a stroke. She was 88.

Mrs. Hawes worked for the preservation of traditional arts most of her life, starting as a child, when she helped her father, folk musicologist John Lomax, collect and transcribe field recordings for the Library of Congress.

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Survivors include three children, Corey Denos of Bellingham, Wash., and Naomi Bishop and Nicholas Hawes, both of Portland; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Bess.