Margaret C. Burt

Margaret C. Burt (Winkie) passed away peacefully in her sleep on November 6th at her home in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 96 and had relocated to Virginia from Princeton, New Jersey to be closer to her family. Her husband Nathaniel Burt, noted author and musician predeceased her.

Winkie, as her friends knew her, was born in New York City on March 4, 1917 to Kenneth and Margery Clinton. Raised in Manhattan, she attended Miss Hewitt’s School for Girls. Following her graduation she pursued her love of art by studying at the Art Students League. As a young woman, Winkie studied the pedal and Irish harp with the famed harpist Mildred Dilling of Manhattan, participating in recitals with some of Ms. Dilling’s more famous students such as Harpo Marx.

During her childhood she spent much time with her grandfather, Herbert Jacquelin, at his Saddle Brook Farm in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey. This instilled in her the love of gardens and animals, and spending her summers in Barnstable, Massachusetts, and in Watch Hill and Newport, Rhode Island inspired her love of the sea.

After marrying Nathaniel Burt in 1941, they moved to California. While he was on a Navy destroyer in the Pacific, she contributed to the war effort by working as a riveter in an airplane factory in Long Beach. During the war she was also an active volunteer in the Red Cross and local hospitals, and this volunteer work continued throughout her life.

Moving to Princeton after the war, she volunteered at the Princeton Hospital, Recording for the Blind, and joined the English Speaking Union, forming lifelong friendships. Throughout her life, she tirelessly devoted herself to the Trinity Church Altar Guild and Flower Committee. She was an avid member of the Princeton Chapter of the Garden Club of New Jersey, ‘rising in the ranks’ as a regional flower show judge. She was invited to judge at the Philadelphia Flower Show and retired as a Judge Emeritus of the organization.

Her love of the arts spurred her to help found and serve as the first president of the Princeton Ballet Society in the early 60s, which through her vision and unflagging support has grown to be New Jersey’s leading contemporary ballet company — the American Repertory Ballet, and the State’s largest ballet school. She also actively supported the Friends of Music, the Princeton Symphony, McCarter Theater and the local opera productions.

From backpacking on horseback into the wilds of Jackson Hole, to sailing with her grandson on the Narragansett Bay; from dining with the leader of Burma at his home, to picnicking in Tuscany with the queen of Romania, Winkie lived a full and colorful life. She will be remembered for her generosity, her compassionate heart, as a gracious hostess and above all, a loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.

Winkie is survived by her children: Margery Smith of Williamsburg, Virginia, and Christopher Burt of Oakland, California; her grandchildren Andara Hoffman of Doylestown, Pennsylvania and Elijah Smith of New York City; and a great-grandson, Ryker. A memorial service will be planned at Trinity Church in Princeton this coming spring, and this summer she will be buried next to her husband in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

The Quaker saying “There is no Way to Peace. Peace is the Way.” was something she fervently believed in. Winkie worked tirelessly with Rev. Bob Moore and his organization Coalition For Peace Action to bring this vision into reality. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorial donations be sent to the Coalition For Peace Action so this dream, which was so dear to Winkie’s heart, may be fulfilled.

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Charles B. Rice, D.D.S.

Surrounded by his loving family, Charles Berdan Rice, D.D.S., passed away peacefully on Tuesday, December 17, 2013.

Charles was born on September 13, 1930 in Passiac, N.J. He is predeceased by his parents, Marjorie B. and C. Walter Rice, and sister, Elizabeth Isabel Angell. Charles graduated from Ridgewood High School in 1948; Hamilton College in 1952; and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1956.

Charles served as a captain in the United States Army Dental Corps from 1956 through 1959. Charles then moved to Princeton, New Jersey where he practiced dentistry for over 50 years until his retirement in 2008.

Charles’s passion was his family. He adored his wife, Marian Robertson Rice. He was very proud of his four children and their spouses, Robert and Maryann; Carl and Molly; Mary Stuart and Gordon; and Clayton “Rip” and Logan; as well as his “adopted” son, Akmal. Beloved grandfather to his eight grandchildren Nelson, Charles, Robert, Gillian,
Demarest, Andrew, Carly, and Anna.

The family received friends on Saturday, December 21 from 1 to 3 p.m. with remembrances at 3 p.m. at the Wilson-Apple Funeral Home, 2560 Pennington Road, Pennington. To send a condolence, visit www.wilsonapple.com.

Please direct gifts to Hamilton College, 198 College Hill Road, Clinton, N.Y. 13323 in memory of Charles B. Rice ’52.