Louise Fair Fox

Louise “Loulie” Fair Fox

Date of Birth: July 23, 1935

Date of Death: June 27, 2018

Born Louise Hitchcock Fair in Washington, D.C. on July 23, 1935, died peacefully on Wednesday, June 27, 2018 in her Santa Fe, New Mexico home after a long illness.

Educated in New England and Canadian schools, she first worked for the State Department in Germany and later in the public relations division of the DuPont company in Wilmington, DE.

She was the daughter of Col. Howard C. Fair and Josefa Hofmann. She is survived by her sister, Marjory “Bodgie” Read and half-brother, Marvin “Skip” Hofmann; her two daughters, Lydia Fabry and Alexa Fabry Knight; her grandchildren Natalie Fabry Ballard and Thomas Fabry Mazorol, and her great-granddaughter, Logan Fabry Ballard.

As an intelligent and talented young woman, she explored her artistic skills and also traveled in Africa for game hunting before she met and married Dr. Paul A, Fabry in 1958 in Wilmington, DE. She moved with her family to New Orleans in 1962 where Dr. Fabry directed the foundation of the first World Trade Center and World Trade Centers Association. There she was active in social and artistic projects while engaged with real estate improvements in the city’s historic French Quarter.

After her divorce in 1968, she settled in Aspen, Colorado where she married Lawrence S. Fox. With Fox and her two children, she moved to Abidjan, Ivory Coast and Nairobi, Kenya for 6 years. Later returning to the USA, she divorced Fox and established a remarkable antique collection of African native art in her new home in Santa Fe. An expert on wooden masks and bronze statuary obtained from tribal areas from East to West Coasts of Africa, she helped spread the interest in New Orleans, Aspen and Santa Fe in the unique 19th century styles for the most important tribes of the Continent.

During her years in Santa Fe, she was co-founder of the bar and restaurant, Fox ‘N Fugue, where she worked to remodel the 100-year-old former red-brick rail station on the "Chile Line” that was later replaced by Tomasita’s restaurant. She designed and built several custom homes while practicing as a real estate professional for over 30 years, was a successful hydroponic gardener, and an accomplished athlete in the sport of Table Tennis. She was also active in the practice of Tai Chi.

Starting early and throughout her years, she studied and played the piano and other musical instruments as the granddaughter of one of the most famous pianists of the first half of the 20th century, Josef Hofmann. She later became the guardian of that era’s musical history by preserving the stories and early recordings of her grandfather and other mementos of that period's American artists.

She traveled extensively throughout her life with many devoted friends and loving family remembering her for her broad intellect, artistic talents and social graces during a long and complex life.