Lela Thornburg

by Joseph B. Kahill (1939)

Lela Helen Goodall was the oldest daughter of Louis and Rose (Goodwin) Goodall. She was born in Portland, Maine, November 15, 1887, and married Harvey David Thornburg. Mrs. Thornburg died July 26, 1957.

Joseph B. Kahill was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1882. He studied under Richard Miller, Jule Prinet, Raphael Collin, and C.L. Fox. He was a member of the Portland Society of Artists, and his works were exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1917 and 1920, as well as the Portland Museum of Art (Maine) in 1943. He died in Portland, Maine in 1957.