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Nancy Marceau Davis
Nancy Marceau Davis of Southampton died on Thursday, January 20. She was 85.
Ms. Davis was born in Orange, New Jersey, the middle daughter of Eugene Theodore Marceau and Sadie Ingram Marceau. Her early years were spent in Maplewood, New Jersey. Later, the family moved to Winchester, Massachusetts, due to her father’s employment as a chemical engineer. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, and worked as a librarian at Columbia University where she met her husband, Allan Ray Davis, of Brookhaven. They moved to Levittown and he became a professor of English at Hofstra University.
Ms. Davis moved to Greenwich Village in the 1970s. She made jewelry and pottery, which she sold at street fairs. She loved working in thrift shops and collecting books. Her brother-in-law, novelist William Mulvihill, often sought her editing skills and literary opinions regarding his work. She loved visiting the Mulvihill homestead in Sag Harbor. She loved avant-garde jazz, train travel and studying American history and politics. She adored animals, especially cats.
She was predeceased by her husband, two infant sons and her sister, Jeanne Elisabeth May. She is survived by her sister, Mary M. Mulvihill of Sag Harbor; nieces, Nancy Mulvihill Tongren of California and Mary Ann Mulvihill-Decker of Sag Harbor; and nephews, Steve and John May of Florida.
Ms. Davis was buried in St. Andrew’s Cemetery in Sag Harbor on January 24, following a brief service. Donations in her name may be made to the ASPCA at aspca.org.
on Feb 11, 2011