What is Remembered, Lives…

Departed Pagan Pioneers, Founders, and Elders
listings in chronological order of death

Died 1900 - 1940:

Charles Godfrey Leland -

8/15/1824 - 3/20/1903

Old George Pickingill 

5/26/1816 - 1909

S.L. MacGregor-Mathers 

1/8/1854 -11/20/1918

Died in 1940s:

Arthur Edward Waite 10/2/1857- 5/19/1942

Dion Fortune (Violet Mary Firth Evans) 12/6/1890 - 1/8/1946

Adriana Porter (“Rede of the Wiccae”) c. 1850-1946

Aleister Crowley

10/12/1875 - 12/1/1947

Rosamund Sabine (probable matriarch of group into which Gardner was initiated)  2/5/1865 - 5/6/1948

Died in 1950s:

Old Dorothy Clutterbuck (1/19/1880–1/12/1951)

Pamela Colman-Smith (Pixie) (2/16/1878-9/18/1951)

Lydia Becket (Aradian Temple of Diana; Lawrence Museum of Magic & Witchcraft) (5/31/1871-12/21/1953)

Austin Osman Spare (12/30/1886-5/15/1956)

Franz Bardon (12/1/1909-7/10/1958)

Died in 1960s:

Katherine Oldmeadow (best friend of Dorothy Clutterbuck and probably a member of the group who initiated Gardner) (6/10/1878-7/8/1963)

Margaret Alice Murray (God of the Witches) (7/13/1863-11/13/1963)

Gerald Brousseau Gardner (6/13/1884-2/12/1964)

Robert Cochrane/Roy Bowers (1734 Tradition) (1/26/1931-7/3/1966)

Ciarriadhe (Kerry Harvey) (Daughters of the Triple Goddess, Framingham, MA) (6/21/1899-6/21/1969)

Norman Lindsay (Australian Pagan artist) (2/22/1879-11/21/1969)

Gleb Evgenievich Botkin (Church of Aphrodite—1930s) (7/29/1900-12/1969)

Died in 1970s:

Barbara Vickers (Gerald Gardner’s first initiate) (7/13/1922-1973)

Arnold Crowther (10/7/1909-5/1/1974)

Edith Woodford-Grimes (Dafo) (12/18/1887-10/28/1975)

Phillip Peter Ross Nichols (6/28/1902-4/30/1975)

Bonnie Sherlock (Delphic Coven, Lander, WY) (d. late ‘70s)

Ernie Mason (hereditary Witch in the group who initiated Gardner) (9/1/1885-2/26/1979)

Susie Mason (hereditary Witch in group who initiated Gardner, sister of Ernie Mason) (8/22/1882-3/30/1979)

Monica English (traditional Witch from East Anglia and member of Bricket Wood coven for awhile) (1/8/1920-9/30/1979)

Rosaleen Miriam Norton (Australia) (10/2/1917-12/5/1979)

John Score (8/1914-12/30/1979)

Died in 1980s:

Jack Bracelin (member of Bricket Wood coven, ran Fiveacres naturist club, co-author of biography “Gerald Gardner Witch”) (6/2/1926-7/28/1981)

Sybil Leek (Diary of a Witch) (2/22/1917-10/26/1982)

Monique Campbell Wilson (Olwen) (1923-1982)

Gwydion Pendderwen (the Faerie Shaman) (5/21/1946-11/9/1982)

George “Pat” Patterson (Georgian Wicca, Bakersfield, CA) (d. 1984)

Francis Israel Regardie (11/17/1907-3/10/1985)

Grady Louis McMurtry (OTO, San Francisco) (10/18/1918-7/12/1985)

Lady Gwen Thomson (NECTW) (9/16/1928-5/22/1986)

“Grandmaster Eli” (Barney C. Taylor) (Druidic Craft of the Wise) (9/22/1917-11/15/1987)

Alex Sanders (Orrell Alexander Carter) (King of the Alexandrian Witches) (6/6/1926-4/30/1988)

Edmund “Eddie” Buczynski (Lord Hermes) (Minoan Brotherhood, NYC) (1/ 28/1947-3/16/1989)

Died in 1990s:

Simon Goodman (9/16/1951-9/23/1991)

Herman Slater (Govannon) (The Magickal Childe, NYC) (2/1/1938-7/9/1002)

William G. Gray (1913-1992)

Scott Cunningham (6/27/1956-3/28/1993)

Marija Gimbutas (1/23/1921-2/2/1994)

Lawrence Durdin-Robertson (Co-Founder of Fellowship of Isis, Ireland) (5/6/1920-8/4/1994)

Margaret St Clair (Sign of the Labrys) (2/17/1911-11/22/1995)

W. Holman Keith (Neo-Dianic Faith) (6/11/1900-1996)

Lord Theodore Mills (d. 1996)

Kerry Wendell Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) (Principia Discordia) (4/17/1938-11/28/1998)

Ayeisha (KAM, Baltimore-DC area) (d. 1998)

Annette Hinshaw (PEN, ESBAT, WPPA) (d. 2/22/1999)

Sandy Kopf (Covenant of the Goddess) (d. 7/11/1999)

Doreen Valiente (Ameth) (1/4/1922-9/1/1999)

Marion Zimmer Bradley (The Mists of Avalon) (6/3/1930-9/25/1999)

Grechon Leigh (founder of SageTree in Michigan) (d. 7/18/1999)

Cecil Hugh Williamson (9/18/1909-12/9/1999)

Died in 2000:

Stewart Farrar (Alexandrian Wicca, Ireland) (6/28/1916-2/7/2000)

Leo Louis Martello (Sicilian Strega, NYC) (9/26/1030-6/29/2000)

Gregory Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) (Principia Discordia) (5/21/1941-7/20/2000)

Judy Foster (Calypso Iris) (1932-2000)

Died in 2001:

Victor Henry Anderson (Feri) (5/21/1917-9/20/2001)

Eleanor Ray Bone (Artemis) (12/15/1911-9/21/2001)

Pauline Campanelli (1/251943-11/29/2001)

Died in 2002:

Jessie Wicker Bell “Lady Sheba” (7/18/1920-3/20/2002)

Charles Clark (4/26/1930-8/17/2002)

Kay Gardner (Pagan feminist musician) (2/8/40-8/28/2002)

Died in 2003:

Nelson White (The White Light) (10/29/1938-8/23/2003)

Ellen Cannon Reed (3/21/1943-10/7/2003)

Patalee Glass-Koetep (Lady Phoenix) (10/27/1943-11/11/2003)

Evan John Jones (1936-2003)

Died in 2004:

Donald D. Harrison (Church of Eternal Source) (5/31/1931-1/7/2004)

Andrew Chumbley (past Magister of Cultus Sabbati) (9/15/1967-1/15/2004)

Donna Cole Schultz (Pagan Way, Chicago, IL) (5/15/1937-3/31/2004)

Lady Circe (Alliance of the Old Religion) (9/8/1921-5/29/2004)

Alison Harlow (Covenant of the Goddess) (8/29/1934-6/13/2004)

Joseph “Bearwalker” Wilson (brought 1734 Tradition to U.S.) (12/11/1942-8/4/2004)

Robert Larson (co-founder and Arch-Druid of Berkeley Grove of RDNA) (9/31/1943-8/6/2004)

Judy Carusone (Isian, HP of Lady of the Sacred Flame) (d. 9/21/2004)

Died in 2005:

Albert N. Webb (aka Ur) (West Coast Eclectic Elder) (1/8/1947-1/7/2005)

Elizabeth Pepper Ca Costa (The Witch’s Almanac) (12/7/1923-7/14/2005)

Died in 2006:

Lady Galadriel (Jodi Monogue) (Grove of the Unicorn, Atlanta, GA) (1956-2/8/2006)

Lee Ann Hussey “motogrrl” (musician, Annwfn) (7/31/1961-5/16/2006)

Died in 2007:

Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus!) (1/18/1932-1/11/2007)

Shekhinah Mountainwater (10/24/1939-8/11/2007)

Died in 2008:

Lady Phoenix (Mimi Rohwer) (HPs & Nat’l Director 1st Celtic Wiccan Church, Inc.) (6/21/1932-1/21/2008)

Cora Anderson (wife of Victor) (Feri) (1/26/1915-5/1/2008)

Frederick MacLaren Adams (Feraferia) (2/4/1928-8/9/2008)

Phoenix (Tom Kneitel) (Long Island Gardnerian Coven in 1970s; husband of Theos) (?/?/1933-8/22/2008)

Sequoia Greenfield (Dianic, Earth First!) (9/12/1944-10/10/2008)

Died in 2009:

Marion Weinstein (Positive Magic and Earth Magic) (5/19/1939-7/1/2009)

Ted Andrews (Animal Speak) (7/16/1952-10/24/2009)

Norman Nelson (Reformed Druids of North America) (d. 4/2009)

Shay Lee (SCPN, Santa Rosa, CA) (3/24/1945-10/16/2009)

Died in 2010:

Pam Kolozsy (Illinois. Co-Founder, PSG Crone Temple of Wisdom) (1948-1/31/2010)

Roy ‘Cuchulainn’ Moorman (11/18/1957-3/1/2010)

Susan Leigh Star (d. 3/24/2010)

Hummy Byron (1947-4/24/2010)

T.J. Collins (Ohio. LGBTQ activist; Co-Director, PSG Rainbow Center) 12/4/1978-4/26/2010)

Robin Goodfellow (Stephen Richard Edwards) (3/11/1945-5/1/2010)

Svetlana Butyrin (wife of Fred Adams) (Feraferia) (11/2/1934-5/6/2010)

Alexei Kondratiev (1949-5/28/2010)

Bruce Kirk Parsons (Wisconsin. Wiccan priest & teacher) (5/10/1947-6/15/2010)

Harold Moss (Church of Eternal Source) (1/30/1937-7/15/2010)

Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (ADF) (10/1/1949-8/12/2010)

Lady Sintana (Candace Lehrman White) (House of Ravenwood, Atlanta, GA) (1937-9/17/2010)

Len Rosenberg (Black Lotus) (partner of Alexei Kondratiev) (1951-10/15/2010) 

Richard Lance Christie (co-founder of ATL, Church of All Worlds, Earth First!) (4/7/1944-10/28/2010)

Trudy Herring (Mama Dragon) (co-founder of Summerland Grove, Memphis, TN) (??-12/18/2010)

Died in 2011:

Sharon Mitchell (Lady Bastet) (HPs Our Lady at the Shoreline, Gardnerian Witch Queen)

3/1/1947-1/12/2011

Kenneth Grant (writer and occultist) (5/23/1924-1/15/2011)

Merlin Stone (When God was a Woman) (9/27/1931-2/23/2011)

Steve Collins (Lord Senthor) (Elder of Ravenwood Church, Atlanta, GA; headed Pagan band “Moonstruck”) (1956-3/14/2011)

DenaJoy Peacemaker (Texas CMA, CAW Fred Nest) (1/24/1967-3/9/2011) 

Gary Ball (Earth First!) (12/14/1948-5/8/2011)

Lady Amythyst Avalon (Bobbie Osley) (Avalon Isle, Highlands of Tennessee Samhain Gathering) (?/?/1936-7/2/2011)

George Moyer (Dragonfest, Hole in the Stone) (8/23/1952-8/25/2011)

Tania Levy (Greenfield Ranch) (1/7/1946-9/1/2011)

Carl Henry Dietz (??-10/2/2011)

Dates of birth and/or death needed:

Lawrence Edward Lawrence (Lawrence Museum of Magic & Witchcraft) (8/13/1941-)

Bill & Helen Mohs (the Mohsian Tradition)

Grandma Julie Tower (Tower Family)

Others who have significantly influenced our modern Pagan world, and have now left us:

William Butler Yeats (6/13/1865-1/28/1939)

Sir James George Frazer (1/1/1854-5/7/1941)

Ernest Thompson Seton (8/14/1860-10/23/1946)

Eric Neumann (1/23/1905-11/5/1960)

Aldous Huxley (7/26/1894-11/22/1963)

Abraham Maslow (4/1/1908-6/8/1970)

Jim Morrison (12/8/1943-7/3/1971)

J.R.R. Tolkien (1/3/1892-9/2/1973)

Theodore Sturgeon (2/26/1918-5/8/1985)

Robert Graves (7/24/1895-12/7/1985)

Joseph John Campbell (3/26/1904-10/30/1987)

Robert Anson Heinlein (7/7/1907-5/8/1988)

Manly Palmer Hall (Secret Teachings of All Ages) (3/18/1901-8/29/1990)

Gene Roddenberry (8/19/1921-10/24/1991)

Timothy Leary (10/22/1920-5/31/1996)

Idries Shah (6/16/1924-11/23/1996)

Carlos Castañeda (12/25/1925-4/27/1998)

Terence McKenna (11/16/1946-4/3/2000)

Albert Hoffman (1/11/1906-4/29/2008)

Dr. Cornelius Railey Lyle II (aka “Bud” (6/24/1921-1/25/2009)

Leonard Shlain (The Alphabet vs. the Goddess) (8/28/1937-5/11/2009)

Jean Dubuis (noted French alchemist, esotericist, and nuclear physicist. Founder of “Les Philosopes de le Nature”) (1919-4/6/2010)

Theodore Roszak (The Making of a Counter Culture) (11/15/1933-7/5/2011)