Marjorie Wyllie MacNeille died quietly at home in Brunswick, Maine, on July 22, 2017. She was born on May 16, 1923, the daughter of the late Ardelia Francis Browning Peckham and Thomas Hamilton Wyllie, Sr. She was the sister of the late Thomas Hamilton Wyllie Jr.

Marjorie grew up in Bogota, Columbia and Springfield, Massachusetts, and was bi-lingual in English and Spanish. After college, secretarial school and working as a secretary, she married Holbrook Mann Mac- Neille in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 27, 1953. They lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and spent many summers on Bailey Island.

She was widowed suddenly in 1973 due to a bicycling accident. After returning to college and the work force, in time she moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, building a close and eclectic group of friends and family there. She moved to Brunswick, Maine, in 2013 and built her own home. She joined classes and discussion groups at the Curtis Public Library, People’s Plus and the Senior College, and kept closely in touch with a wide and varied circle of friends and family.

Marjorie is survived by her eldest son Perry Robinson MacNeille, his wife Elaine Iris Cassen, and their three children, Ruth Brooke, Benjamin Charles, and Elliot Cassen MacNeille; by her daughter Jeanette Clausine MacNeille and her husband Victor Joseph Langelo of Topsham, Maine; and by her youngest son John Holbrook MacNeille, his wife Pui Man “Polly” Yu and their two sons, Matthew Robinson and Andrew Perry MacNeille, as well as many cousins stemming from the family of Charles Holbrook Mann, Holbrook’s grandfather, and the Peckhams of Middletown, Rhode Island.

Details on Marjorie’s memorial service will be available at Legacy.com and condolences may also be offered there.