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Nancy Pearce

June 8, 1921 ~ November 9, 2012 (age 91) 91 Years Old
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Old Lyme - Nancy Muir Pearce of Old Lyme, Edgartown, Mass. and New York, died on Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.

She was born in New York City in 1921. A lifelong abstract painter and interior designer, she was married to Malcolm Muir Jr. for 46 years until his death in 1984. Subsequently, she married his childhood friend, Richard I. Pearce.

She is survived by her brother, C. Maury Jones of Princeton, N.J.; and three children, Katharine Muir of New York, Andrew Muir of Edgartown, Mass. and Morgan Muir of Oakland,Calif.; she is also survived by her grandchildren, Lida Moore Musso, Sarah Moore Rauch, Nicola Muir Fabens, James Joseph Malcolm Askin, MacDonald Andrew Pellessier Muir, Elizabeth Kelly Pellessier Muir, Eliza Curtis; and eight great-grandchildren.

Her son, Malcolm Muir III, predeceased her.

There will be a memorial service at 3:30 p.m. today, at Essex Meadows, 30 Bokum Road, Essex, in the Hamilton Room.
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Published in The Day on November 10, 2012


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