Margaret Ann Williams
March 15, 1945 – February 28, 2026
Boston, Massachusetts
Margaret taught third grade at Lincoln Elementary for thirty-one years. On the morning of February 28th, she passed at home with her family around her. She was eighty years old.
She kept every letter her students ever wrote her in a shoebox under the bed, sorted by year. She grew roses — Peace, Mr. Lincoln, and a climbing Don Juan along the back fence that she talked to like it could hear her. She remembered everyone's birthday. Not just family. The mailman. The woman at the dry cleaner. The kid two doors down who once helped her carry groceries in from the car.
She made the same lasagna every Sunday for forty-three years and never once wrote down the recipe. When her granddaughter finally asked, she said, “You just know.” Nobody knows. They’ve been trying since March.
The kind of things you don’t realize hold a family together until they stop.
She is survived by her husband John, her children Sarah and Michael, and six grandchildren who called her Nana.
“The house is so quiet now. I keep expecting to hear her in the kitchen.”
John Williams, husband
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