Pamela Scott Harris Daugherty transitioned on Feb. 12. She had been admitted to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was being treated for complications following cancer therapy. She was supported by her husband Lenston and their daughter Soleil as she fought bravely to the end.

She truly loved the beach — Sanibel, Lucy Vincent and Inkwell particularly. She was an avid people person with a disarmingly self-effacing wit. She was quick to make a friend of a stranger and couldn’t stand to walk past someone in need without contributing assistance.

Pamela earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in theater design and production from East Carolina University. While there she acted onstage with Sandra Bullock and also studied writing and acting.

After graduating she did what she had long dreamed of doing: moving to New York City to pursue a career in theater. She found employment at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center and worked her way from expediter to manager. She was on a first-name basis with patrons and performers such as Liza Minnelli and Joan Rivers.

Pam continued to participate with artistic projects, including co-founding a three-women script writing group, co-writing a series of off-Broadway plays, acting in an episode of NBC’s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and performing in the ComedySportz improv group. She also published a poem, The Thick of July, in a volume of the New York Poet Society’s annual edition.

On a 1992 visit to Raleigh, N.C. to attend her older sister Paula’s wedding, Pamela would meet her soon to be husband Lenston. They went on to collaborate on many creative projects, traveling and participating in artistic communities and living and working in Brooklyn and the Lower East Side New York City, Little Five Points in Atlanta, Ga., Belltown and Capital Hill in Seattle Wash. and Ft. Myers and Cape Coral in Florida.

The aftermath of Hurricane Charley in 2004 played a key role in their decision to visit and eventually settle on Martha’s Vineyard for what would be the next 18 years. They became involved with theater, donating a set for the 2005 Edgartown School production of Bye Bye Birdie. For the next two years, Pamela worked on costumes, props and stage coordination for the fourth-grade theater project. This was a great joy since it involved some of her favorite activities, creative art, design and working with children.

Len and Pamela’s daughter Soleil was born Dec. 4, 2007. Being a parent was what she loved the most and what she was the most proud of.

As a stay at home mom, she started a modest business preparing homemade vegan soups and chilis that she shared with friends and eventually sold at a market in Tisbury as well as at festivals and fairs in Oak Bluffs. She organized two pop-up soup kitchens at the Stone Church food pantry where Soleil and Lenston served hot meals to community members. She was working on a vegan cookbook for children that will be completed by her family in her honor.

Pamela is survived by her husband, Lenston Daugherty 3rd and their daughter Soleil Z.S. Daugherty; her brother Robert and his wife Sonya Harris; her sisters Paula Harris and Patti and her husband Julien Mordecai; her nieces Savannah, Beatrice and Marina; nephews Julien Wood and Harris; brother in law Robert and his wife Saporah Daugherty; sister in law Lenetta Daugherty and nephews Qasim, Albert and Yusef, and nieces Karima, Queridah, Amira and Amina.

She was interred at Cedar Knoll Cemetery in East Taunton.

A celebration of life will be held this summer on a date to be announced.

Memorial donations can be made to Martha’s Vineyard Bank, in care of Lenston Daughterty 3rd for the S&CB Fund, for the purposes of Soleil’s school fund and finishing Pamela’s cookbook.