Margaret (Marnie) Lanphier Wengren, formerly of Lincoln MA, died peacefully at her home in Lexington MA on March 8, 2016, six weeks before her 100th birthday. Marnie was introduced to Nantucket in the summer of 1936 when she was dating DeWitt Smith who she married in 1938. Marnie and DeWitt continued coming to the island, in the 1940s and 50s staying at either the 10 Academy Lane home of DeWitt's parents, Ellen and Henry Smith, or at the Smiths' cottages on Madaket Harbor, "Westward-Ho" and "Tuckaway." In 1956, Marnie & DeWitt bought their own summer home at 45 Cliff Road which became a gathering place not only for their four children, Henry, Susie, Ellen and Rob, but for the children of DeWitt's sisters, Lizzie Sanford and Jeannette Rodes, and dozens of other teenagers. Aunt Marnie welcomed them all. After selling Cliff Road, Marnie & DeWitt bought "Cliffhanger," the beach house that DeWitt's parents had built in Dionis in 1958. Giving "Cliffhanger" to her children, Marnie and her second husband, Dick Wengren, bought a little house on Hither Creek. "Goldfish" is now owned and loved by her daughter and son-in-law, Susie and Lindsay Peter White who met on Nantucket when they were five an seven. Marnie's daughter, Ellen, also met her husband Mike on the island the summer when Mike drove the ice cream truck with Peter White, and Marnie's younger son Rob. married Nancy Warriner whose grandmother, Mildred Rutter, had a summer home at 8 Ash Street. The Nantucket legacy continues through Marnie's grandson, Josh Harde, proprietor of FRESH, Nantucket in town. Marnie was born in Springfield IL and came east to attend the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry NY and then Vassar College. On her marriage to DeWitt Smith, a mining engineer, Marnie found herself living in the world of very small mining towns, beginning in Bisbee AZ, then River Mines MO and, in 1950, in Edwards NY where DeWitt was superintendent of the St. Joseph zinc mines. Moving to Lincoln MA, Marnie became a volunteer in the Education Department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, then trained as a Gallery Instructor at the MFA, and, in her words, "made my way over the course of thirteen years through most of the museum's collections." Her experience at the Boston museum led the Lincoln Selectmen to appoint her trustee of the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in that town, and in 1980, she served as deCordova's interim director. For the last twenty-six years of her life, Marnie lived at Brookhaven in Lexington. She is survived by her four Smith children, Henry DeWitt Smith and his wife Kimie; Susan Smith White and her husband Lindsay (Peter); Ellen Smith Harde and her husband Mike; and R.L. Smith and his wife Tucker; as well as Dick Wengren's three children Martha Tattersall, Ted Wengren and Carla Ricci, 14 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. Services were held at The First Parish in Lincoln on March 15th. A remembrance of Marnie's life was held on Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 1:30 pm at the First Parish, 14 Bedford Road, in Lincoln, followed by a gathering of her friends at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln where Marnie served as trustee for many years. Private burial was at Lincoln Cemetery, Lincoln. Memorial donations may be made to the First Parish in Lincoln, 14 Bedford Road, Lincoln, MA 01773. Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord.