Margaret Hoag MyerMarty to her friends and family, and daughter of Garret S. Hoag and Margaret E. Hoag, passed away on Tuesday, October 24th, 2017, five weeks short of her 90th birthday, at her home in Hanover, NH. Marty was a Clinical Social Worker with a MSW from Simmons School of Social Work, and a BS in Economics from Wellesley College.

Both personally and professionally, Myer had a deep commitment to helping those in need. As a psychiatric social worker with multiple professional awards, she published throughout her 40 year career, and taught and presented at Simmons, Harvard, and Cambridge City Hospital to name a few.

As a Senior Social Worker at Tuft's New England Medical Center, Myer founded the Child Sexual Abuse Team, and was the Clinical Coordinator of the Family Crisis Program. Marty was the co-author of many articles in her career, but none meant more to her than the book "People and Places," which she wrote with her husband, Jack Myer, an architect. "People and Places" explores the connection between our built environment and our unconscious thoughts and feelings.

Marty folded people into her life, from offering a temporary home to those in need, to creating long summer supper tables filled with the fresh New Hampshire summer food she loved to cook – corn, tomato salads, and sweet peas. She was known to fight for causes she believed in – including wrapping her young children's arms around the Charles River's famous Sycamore trees in protest – thereby saving those very trees for her grandchildren to enjoy.

In later years she could be found with her husband, Jack, standing along Rt. 16 in Chocorua with large antiwar protest signs. Along with Jack, she taught her children to ski, sail, mountain climb, and to enjoy nature, travel, adventure, and skinny dipping. She loved to play games – Cribbage, Hearts, Bridge, and Backgammon. She was an avid gardener, and took enormous pleasure in her children and grandchildren.

Marty was predeceased by her husband John Randolph Myer and her sister Nancy Hoag Blanchett.

Marty is survived by her younger sister Alice Hoag Kurland, her son Charlie Myer and his wife Bernadette Downey, daughter Anna Myer and her husband Jay Paris, and daughter Margaret Keats Myer and her husband Demirhan Yenigun, and grandchildren Sami, Ella and Emre Yenigun and Henry and Seth Myer, and step grandchildren, William, Peter, Holly and Berin Senne, and Sophie and Owen Paris.

A celebration of Marty's life is to be held at 11:00 am at the North Sandwich Quaker Meeting House in North Sandwich New Hampshire with a reception to follow at the Myer Barn, 175 Brown Hill Road, Sandwich, NH on Saturday, July 28th, 2018.

The Rand-Wilson Funeral Home of Hanover, NH assisted the family with arrangements.