MARGARET "Meg" GREGG

1930 - 2022

GREGG MARGARET CURRY GREGG 1930 ~ 2022 Margaret Curry Gregg, who raised a family in four world capitals during the Cold War before returning to the 1845 farmhouse in Armonk, NY, where she grew up, died in Northern Westchester Hospital on March 1, 2022. She was 91. The eldest child of R. Eugene and Margery Metheny Curry, she was born in New York City on July 16, 1930, and was raised on a rural dirt road in Armonk. After graduating from Middlebury College in 1951 with a degree in Russian, she went to work for the CIA in Washington, but throughout her life declined to tell her children what she did. She met her future husband, Donald P. Gregg, in a shared cab from Washington's Union Station. Though they both worked for CIA at the time, she outranked him. Don was assigned to the island of Saipan and came back on home leave to propose, and they were married on July 4, 1953. During his foreign-service career, they were stationed in Saipan; Tokyo; Rangoon, Burma; Seoul, South Korea, and in Washington, DC. Meg created a warm and inviting home for the family with every move, and was an outstanding partner to Don as a gracious hostess, sage adviser and loving wife. Meg's final overseas tour was in Seoul, where her husband served as U.S. ambassador from 1989 to 1993. In honor of their decades of work to advance American relations in East Asia, the Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Practice in Korean and East Asian Affairs at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University was established by their friend Spencer Kim in 2009. Meg was employed over the years as an editor, development officer and residential real estate agent. She was regularly involved in volunteer work, most recently serving on the board of the Friends of the North Castle Public Library, the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery Association, and the Vestry of St. Mary's Church. Along with her husband of 68 years, she is survived by her three children, Lucy Gregg Buckley of Washington, DC; Alison Gregg Corcoran and her husband Edward J. Corcoran of Boston, MA; and John P. Gregg and his wife Mary Ceglarski Gregg, of Westminster West, VT; a sister, Jan Harrison, of Providence, RI; and a brother, Ren Curry and wife Nancy Knudegard, of Santa Cruz, CA; and several Curry and Metheny cousins. She was predeceased by a brother, Jay Curry, of The Netherlands. She also leaves six grandchildren: Caitlin Gregg Buckley and husband Michael John Leavey, William Conor Buckley, Sgt. Edward Gregg Corcoran, Alexander Curry Corcoran, Margaret Emaline Corcoran, and Tyquan Lamont Davis. Funeral services will be held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Armonk on Saturday, March 12, at 11 a.m. The service will be streamed at www.ststephensarmonk.org . A private burial will follow the reception. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery or the Friends of the North Castle Public Library. Funeral services will be held at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Armonk on Saturday, March 12, at 11 a.m. The service will be streamed at www.ststephensarmonk.org . A private burial will follow the reception. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Middle Patent Rural Cemetery or the Friends of the North Castle Public Library.