MARY WIGGLESWORTH MCADOO

1921 - 2015

McAdoo, Mary Wigglesworth Of Lexington, on June 14, 2015. Born March 26, 1921. Beloved wife of Richard B. McAdoo. She was a daughter of Edward Wigglesworth and Sarah Parkman Rackemann of Boston. She attended Beaver Country Day School and graduated from St. Timothy's School in Maryland in 1939. During World War II Mary did civilian work for the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps in New York, and then in Bermuda. After their marriage on June 26, 1948, she and her husband lived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. In 1969 they moved to Cambridge, where Mary worked for Cambridge Hospice, chaired the board of the Kodály Musical Training Institute, was a member of the Women's Study Club of Cambridge, and a leader of the Nucleus Club of Boston. She is survived by her husband of 67 years and their daughters Mary P. McAdoo (married to David Neustadt) of Brooklyn, NY; Pamela McAdoo of Truckee, CA; and Julie McAdoo (married to Timothy Winship) of Temple, NH; and by their grandchildren Nora Neustadt, Lucas Neustadt, Rémy Denton (married to Lauren Ro Wang), Cassia Denton, and Sarah Winship. A Memorial Service will be held on August 21st at 2 p.m. at Brookhaven, 1010 Waltham St. in Lexington. The family encourages donations in her memory to the VNA Care Network and Hospice, de Rahm Home, 65 Chilton St., Cambridge MA 02138; or to the Brookhaven Employee Scholarship Fund, Brookhaven at Lexington, 1010 Waltham St., Lexington MA 02421.