Margie M. Brown ’76

Margie died Sept. 19, 2023, in Houston.

Born and raised in Warren, Ark., she graduated with honors from Warren High School, where she excelled at academics. At Princeton, she majored in psychology and roomed in a suite with Anita Springer and Nancy Kraybill in Gauss Hall. She married Robert Lewis during college and moved off campus.

After graduation, Margie earned a master’s degree in special education from the College of New Jersey in 1979. She began working for the N.J. Department of Education and was promoted to be director of education for the N.J. Juvenile Justice Commission. She retired in 2009.

Margie and Robert had two sons, Robert Jr. and Jonathan. The marriage ended in divorce, and she later married Colin Cross and moved with him to Houston. Her second marriage ended in divorce, but they remained close. Colin predeceased Margie Oct. 2, 2022, in Houston.

Margie was an active Princeton alumna, serving on an alumni-faculty forum panel on education in 1991 under her married name Margie Lewis and attending a SheRoars conference in 2011 under her second married name Margie Cross.

The class sends sincere condolences to her siblings, Marilyn Meriweather and Johnny Brown; her sons, Robert Lewis Jr. and Jonathan Lewis; and grandchildren Bruce Lewis and Chloe Lewis.