Mrs. Hart, is the wife of Franklin A.( Nick) Hart, Jr., Colonel, USMC (Ret.); mother of Franklin A. Hart III (Wanda) of Poolesville, MD, Emily Winship Hart and Katherine Hart Boling (Steve) of St. Simons Island, GA; grandmother of Franklin A. Hart IV and Charles Edwin Hart of Poolesville, MD, Brooke Winship Baskin, William Mathew Baskin, Jr., and Blair Elizabeth Baskin, Samuel McKinley Boling of St. Simons Island, GA and Jacob Stephen Boling (Michelle) of Marietta, GA, and great-grandmother of Oliver Finn Boling.
Mrs. Hart was born in 1934 to Emily and Edwin Tribble. She attended Mrs. Cook’s School and graduated from the Holton-Arms School both in Washington, D.C., and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY receiving her Bachelors in Political Science . She was presented to society at the Washington Debutante Ball and is a former member of the Washington Junior League. Mrs. Hart was a cradle Episcopalian and a member of Christ Church Frederica, the National Cathedral Foundation, the National Historic Preservation Society, the Smithsonian, Colonial Williamsburg, Mt. Vernon and on St. Simons, the Library League, the Land Trust and the Coastal Georgia Historical Society. She has worked in retail on the island and been a mentor in several of the elementary schools where her daughters taught. Her greatest joy was her family, her children and grandchildren. She was passionate about learning, and about preserving the past. She and her husband enjoyed traveling to new places, and learning about them. She was a voracious reader, a great companion with a delightful sense of humor. She also had a remarkable memory that often amused and surprised her family members, with the detail of past events. She was selfless, elegant, generous, and poised. She was the witty, joyful, magnetic matriarch of our family. She was truly one of a kind and will be missed by us all.
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial contributions made to charity of donor’s choice.
A celebration of Mrs. Hart’s life will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 28, 2017, at Edo Miller and Sons Funeral Home, with Father Tom Purdy officiating. A reception will follow the service in the Brunswick – McIntosh Room.
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