Anne ("Nancy") Martinson died peacefully at her residence at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, NJ on Monday, November 17, 2014 surrounded by her children. She was 93 years old and had been a resident of Princeton for 56 of those years.

Nancy was born Anne Marston Driscoll in Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1921, although all of her acquaintances for most of her life knew her as Nancy. She moved as a child to Nutley, NJ with her family and attended local schools there before joining the ranks of the all-women Douglass College, now a division of Rutgers University. After deciding during her first year at Douglass to pursue a teaching career, Nancy transferred to Columbia University Teachers College, graduating with the Class of 1943.

In high school Nancy met and later married Carl Edward Martinson only shortly before he was placed on Army active duty during World War II. Like many couples, they were separated for two years during the war while Carl was stationed in London. Within months of the war's end, Nancy joined Carl in London where he was assigned to the Office of the Military Attaché there. Although the devastation of war-torn London made life difficult, Nancy talked of this experience with warm memories. Her first son, Peter, was born there, the first post-war baby born to an American serviceman on British soil.

After returning to the United States in 1947, the couple and their growing family—including Charles and Joanna, born in Chicago, and Richard, born in Washington, D.C. – eventually settled in Princeton in 1958.

Nancy began teaching in the Princeton Regional School System almost immediately on arriving in Princeton, first at Johnson Park School and later at Riverside School. She remained an elementary school teacher in the district for 27 years, retiring in 1985. Her former students frequently returned to her classroom to visit as older adolescents or young adults.

After her retirement, Nancy could be seen almost daily strolling from her home on Jefferson Road to the new Princeton Public Library to borrow or return books. An avid reader, her lifelong love of books was equaled only by her enthusiasm for contract bridge – with a longstanding group of women friends – and cultivating her garden. Nancy also served on the volunteer staff at the Princeton Medical Center, stationed at the patient information desk. Just before moving to Stonebridge in 2004, Nancy's service longevity of 5500 hours over 10 years was recognized at a hospital awards ceremony.

Nancy lived alone following her husband Carl's untimely death of cancer in 1979, after 35 years of marriage. Nancy was not lonely, however; her children, living locally or not so far removed, often came to visit her with an ever-growing number of grandchildren. Tragically, her oldest son Peter died in 2010, after a lingering battle with leukemia.

Predeceased by her loving husband, Carl, her devoted son Peter, and two older sisters, Doris Whitcomb and June Roberts, Nancy is survived by her three remaining children, Charles, of Princeton; Joanna Jacobs, of Swarthmore, PA; and Richard, of Westfield, NJ; 11 grandchildren and one great grandson.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30AM on Friday, November 21, 2014 at St. Paul Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ. She will be laid to rest beside her husband in Princeton Cemetery following the mass.

In lieu of flowers, the family has suggested that donations be made to the Stonebridge Employee Appreciation Fund, Business Office, 100 Hollinshead Spring Road, Skillman, NJ 08558.