Terry Harris Grabar
December 8, 1928 – February 10, 2022

Terry Grabar died on February 10, 2022 at her home near Princeton, New Jersey.  She was 93 years old.

A funeral service will be held at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street in Princeton, at 11:00a.m. on Friday, February 18, 2022.  Burial will follow at Trinity-All Saints' Cemetery, Princeton.

Terry was educated at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati (class of 1946), Wellesley College (class of 1950) and the University of Michigan, where she received a Ph.D. in English literature in 1962.  She had a long career as an educator, teaching in a Princeton elementary school in the 1950s, and then as a Professor of English at Eastern Michigan State University (Ypsilanti), Northeastern University (Boston), Radcliffe College and Fitchburg State College (Fitchburg, Massachusetts), where she was for many years chair of the English Department.

She specialized initially in early 19 ^th -century English writing about Persia, and her later academic interests focused on English and American poetry of the 19 ^th century and on the Bible as literature.  Terry retired in 1990, and her post-retirement activities included published translations of books from French to English, as well as accomplished playing of bridge, Scrabble and the piano.

Terry married Oleg Grabar in 1951, and they lived in Ann Arbor, in Jerusalem, and outside Boston (in Lexington and then Concord), before moving to Princeton in 1990.  Their daughter Anne Louise died in 1988, and Oleg Grabar died in 2011.  She is survived by her brother Sandy Harris of Hendersonville, North Carolina, by her son Nicolas Grabar and daughter-in-law Jennifer Sage of New York, and by her grandchildren Henry, Olivia and Mars.

Terry Grabar was graced with natural dignity, wisdom and humor, which touched her many colleagues and friends all through her long life.