IN LOVING MEMORY OF Marian Miles Mccredie

Marian Miles

Mccredie

d. Oct 23, 2020

Princeton

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Marian Miles Mccredie's Obituary

Marian Lucille Miles McCredie died on October 23 at the Princeton Medical Center. She was 81.

She was born Marian Lucille Miles on February 20th, 1939 in New York, New York to George and Lucy

Eleanor (Briggs) Miles. She graduated from the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York in 1956,

having spent a year abroad at La Chatelaine in St. Blaise, Switzerland. She received a Bachelor of Arts

in the History of Art from Smith College in 1960.

Marian, known from an early age to her friends and family as Mimsy, succinctly framed her aspirations

in her high school yearbook this way: "To really live life." And so she did. She was presented to society

at the Westchester Cotillion in 1956. By then she was already a veteran traveler and had proved herself

an accomplished canoeist, swimmer, horseback rider, skier and mountain climber. She was a lifelong

traveler and lover of adventure. She visited places as far flung as India, Norway, Kenya and the

Galapagos and she had crisscrossed North America from the Baja peninsula to the northern woods of

Maine. From 1960 to 2019, she spent part of each year on the remote Greek island of Samothrace. In

fact, she liked to say that she had been on her way around the world when she stopped in Athens, Greece

and married the archaeologist, James R. McCredie on September 3rd, 1960.

Mimsy and James went on to share a 58-year marriage until his death in 2018. She was an essential

partner during his extraordinary career in academia and classical archaeology, putting her legendary

organizational skills and social graces to work for the benefit of all. As wife of the Director of the

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, she was known for careful planning of parties and

events and tactful follow-through that advanced many a student's career. On a more human level, she

simply made sure that everyone felt included. Her ability to connect people came through in every part

of her life and across the world. She is remembered fondly as a loyal correspondent, a rememberer of

birthdays and an expert networker long before that became a thing.

Mimsy is survived by and will be forever missed by her son, Miles McCredie, her daughter Meredeth

McCredie Winter, son-in-law Mark Winter, grandchildren William and Eleanor Winter and by the many,

many friends and acquaintances whose lives she touched.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Marquand Park Foundation in Princeton, on whose

board she served for many years, or to the Loon Preservation Committee in memory of her long love of

a particular loon-graced lake.

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