Margaret Green Boeth

A late addition in January, 2022: The deservedly warm recollections here omit Sissy’s long career at Time magazine, moving up from a researcher to a full-fledged writer, one of the earliest women to make that jump. In 1968 I worked with her on the Time cover story about the novelist and critic John Updike. I interviewed him and his wife; Sissy did the more demanding work of writing the story, under the friendly but demanding eye of a senior editor, Jesse Birnbaum. I will soon (April, 2022) be...

I have just learned about Sissy's death, and I am very sad to lose a friend of many years. We were at Hollins together, then reconnected some years later to become fast friends. We both loved to laugh, and that, as much as anything, cemented our friendship. I'll miss her.

During the wonderful remembrances at the memorial last weekend, several people shared about how Sissy was like a grandma to them as children, then transitioned to be their friends when they became adults. I had the same experience. Though I had met Sissy when I was a small child (we are cousins on my father’s side and close family friends through my mother’s side), my strongest first memories of her are from visiting her in New York with my grandmother Lepoint during our annual trips in the...

My husband, Austin, and I met Margaret (and she introduced herself as "Margaret" and we were supposed to call her that, always) when we moved to New York in the fall of 1979, after I graduated from law school. We went to the same church -- All Angels, and she lived in the building across the street from us, there on 81st Street and Riverside Drive. We loved Margaret. I once wore her amazing yellow prom/debutante dress to a costume party at All Angels -- I think it was her high school prom...

I had the privilege of serving with Margaret on the Board of Episcopal Relief and Development for several years. She was a strong advocate for programs that supported the poor and needy and always let you know where she stood. I had the joy of playing golf with her on several occasions and enjoyed her stories of family and life experiences. May God continue to bless her family.

Margaret was a great nieghbor to my cousins down in Cape Cod. She was a lovelly woman with a caring heart. We had a lot of fun at her house on Cape Cod. We always had a lot of fun playing with her grandson Sam. I didn't know her that well but I still knew her and that's what counts.

A woman for all seasons, a friend for all seasons, Sissy knew and taught the rest of us how to live with and through great personal pain. If someone were to remark "I don't know how you go on!" at any of a number of difficult junctures in her life, I know what she would reply:"What's the alternative?" Then she'd laugh.Sissy knew what it meant to "keep smiling through" as the song has it, 'till "the blue clouds drive the dark clouds far away." And if they didn't, she'd make her own blue sky...

Sissy was a student of mine at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine many years ago. Our paths continued to cross via her niece Margaret, the Midtown Tennis Club, the occasional lunch and most recently the Church Club. She was a strong lady with a great love of the Episcopal Church.

Sissy was my Godmother and she took the job seriously, which meant alot to me. I was named for her because she was also my Mother's best friend. Even though our lives were lived in different parts of the country, we were able to visit often. Sissy was a mentor for me in many ways. She was smart,strong,loving,humorus,athletic,adventuresome,and very generous. I will miss her tremendously and will carry her spirit with me always.