Margaret M. Ames, 84, classics scholar
Margaret Moore Ames of Washington Street, Westport N.Y., a classics scholar, teacher and former school administrator who had lived in Ridgefield for many years, died Friday, June 22, at the Elizabethtown Community Hospital. She was 84 years old and the wife of Russell Ames.
Dr. Ames was born on Dec. 5, 1916, in Grand Rapids Mich., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Moore. She graduated from Swarthmore College where she majored in classics, and received a doctorate in Latin from the University of Michigan.
A classics scholar, teacher, and author, she had taught at the Riverdale Country School from 1958 until her retirement in 1983. For a while, she was also an assistant headmistress there. Dr. Ames also taught at Hunter College.
She married Russell Ames, then director of admissions at Riverdale, in 1967, and that year they moved to Pin Pack Road in Ridgefield. The Ameses moved to Westport in 1997.
Besides her husband, Dr. Ames is survived by a son, David Foley of San Francisco, a daughter, Barbara Foley of Orange, N.J., and three grandchildren.
No services are planned at this time.
Donations in her memory may be made to the Ballard Park Association, or to the Northern Adirondacks Arts Council, Westport, NY 12993
The W.M. Marvins Sons funeral home in Elizabethtown is in charge of arrangements.