Margrit Nash

Margrit W. Nash, of Atlanta, GA, passed away on Saturday, November 21, 2020, at the age of 83.

Margrit was born in Hamburg, Germany, on September 5, 1937. She attended school in Germany and in Belgium. After competing her university studies, she met and married John Nash, an Englishman, and moved with him first to London, then later to Atlanta in 1967. A talented manager with fine-tuned attention to detail, Margrit filled several upper-management roles in hotel management in Atlanta and in the Southeast. Near the end of her life, in an occupation she seemed to enjoy more than any of the others, she was a lively leader of bus tours for Europeans traveling in the United States and Canada. She began each tour day by broadcasting Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again” on the bus’s public address system, a touch that her travellers loved, and she did deep research into the histories of the cities, towns and countryside on their route so that she was able to broadcast a running commentary, in German, on the passing landscape. She was one of the most popular tour guides in the circuit.

A world traveler herself, but a naturalized US citizen with deep caring and affection for her adopted country and region, Margrit had a spunkiness, and a ready sense of humor that earned her a wide circle of friends, to whom she was intensely loyal. A lover of the arts, she was a long-time season ticket-holder of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and an enthusiastic participant in the Atlanta theater scene. A top-notch executive and administrator with a caring spirit, she was continuously involved for more than two decades in the welfare of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Atlanta, where she was elected president of the Congregation in the 1970s. She was also active at The Mountain and in the League of Women’s Voters.

Margrit is survived by her son, Martin Nash; daughter Helen Nash; and grandson Princeton.

Margrit’s body will be cremated, and a memorial service will be held in 2021. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the ASPCA, Humane Society or any other animal rescue group.