
{"id":6342,"date":"2009-07-02T08:17:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=6342"},"modified":"2009-07-02T08:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T16:17:57","slug":"obituary-margaret-alice-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2009\/07\/02\/obituary-margaret-alice-middleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Margaret Alice Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Alice Middleton was born in Washington, DC on July 10, 1944, and died June 18, 2009. Since 1981 she resided in Carrboro, N.C. where she was a violist and played many concerts with various groups in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Most notably she was a member of the orchestra for the annual Duke University Messiah performances.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret graduated from the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. She also studied at the New York Restaurant School and the New York School of Interior Design. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She was known as Migret to all of her musician colleagues and enjoyed a long career based in New York City as a freelance violist. From 1970-1972 she lived in Salzburg, Austria, as a member of the Mozarteum Orchestra and principal violist with the Camerata Academica Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986 she and her partner Jane began selling muffins at the Carrboro Farmers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Market where she became famous as the Maggie of Maggie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muffins. Soon there was a muffin shop followed by Maggie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Caf\u00c3\u00a9 &#038; Espresso Bar, which opened in 1990 and ran successfully until 1997 when Maggie and Jane retired from the food business.<\/p>\n<p>She is survived by her partner of 32 years, Jane Hamborsky, and their Wheaten Terrier, Murphy; Jason and Megan Hinton of Chicago and children Eve Margaret and Logan; nephew John Middleton and his wife, Megan, and children Ellen and Jack; niece Laura Adams and her husband, Brad, and children Caroline, Emily and Sarah; her countless friends and doctors who loved her spirit for life.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the LIVESTRONG Lance Armstrong Foundation at livestrong.org. Maggie loved Lance and his great success as a champion cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>A celebration of life service and funeral will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, July 10, 2009 at Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, NC. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Alice Middleton was born in Washington, DC on July 10, 1944, and died June 18, 2009. Since 1981 she resided in Carrboro, N.C. where she was a violist and played many concerts with various groups in the Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Most notably she was a member of the orchestra for the annual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6343,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6342\/revisions\/6343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}