Margaret, or "Lee," as she was known by her friends and family, was born in Alexandria, Virginia on October 22, 1940. Lee lived with her parents and three sisters above the family's shop on King Street in downtown Alexandria. Lee attended highschool at George Washington High. During her childhood, she spent her summers in Truro, near Provincetown on Cap Cod, where she first learned to paint. Upon graduation, Lee went on to study Violin at the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Following her time at Peabody, Lee moved with her parents to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where she eventually met and fell in love with her husband of 55 years, Oliver Adams Green, Jr. ("Ollie"). The couple took up residence in a home built by Ollie's great grandfather on Crooks Road in Royal Oak, Michigan. The house remains standing today as one of the original farmhouses in Royal Oak. It was there that the couple began raising their two children, Edward Oliver Green and Marian Lee Green (Badendieck). Throughout their married life, Lee enthusiastically supported her husband's career as Bass Clarinetist and Personnel Manager of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She was an active member of the Junior Women's Association for the DSO and a board member and Vice President of the Detroit Symphony League. Aside from being an avid supporter of Ollie's symphony career and a mother to Edward and Marian, Lee had a million (and one) other interests and hobbies. Early on in their married life, Lee bred and showed Old English Sheep dogs, often loading up her car on the weekends with the dogs and driving to competitions across the country. In 1968, the family moved to a home in the University District of Detroit where in addition to showing dogs, Lee spent time preserving the vintage home's original features including a Pewabic tile basement and began to develop a love for interior design. In 1976, the family moved to Birmingham, Michigan where she spent her time raising teenagers and continued to volunteer for the Symphony League. Once the children were off to college, Lee developed an interest and talent for sailing. Their love of the water took Lee and Ollie on sailing trips every summer up to Sarnia on Lake Huron in Ontario Canada. At this time, they joined the Great Lake's Yacht Club in St. Clair Shores where Lee became the Commodore in 1994. For most people, that would have been enough hobbies, but not for Lee. Throughout their life together, Lee was also an avid gardener, fine artist, painter, seamstress, quilter and formidable Bridge player. She learned to paint and draw from her mother, who was a talented artist in her own right. Lee put her gardening skills to work at the Village Club in Bloomfield Hills where she spearheaded numerous gardening and landscaping projects for the club. Lee spent the last ten years of her life in the home she designed and built in Niles, Michigan, surrounded by all of the artwork she and her mother had created over the years and tending to her incredible gardens. Lee is survived by her son, Edward Oliver Green (Marisa), and daughter, Marian Lee Green (Mike Badendieck) and her adoring grandchildren, Oliver Adams Green III and Eleanor Margaret Green. Lee was predeceased by her husband, Oliver Adams Green, Jr., and her sisters, Ann, Blanche ("Biddy") and Grace. She is also survived by her two nieces, Kate Tressler and Jenny Tressler. Lee will be remembered at private graveside services in Royal Oak, Michigan and Truro, Massachusetts. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory to the Michigan Parkinson's Foundation ( parkinsonsmi.org ) and Detroit Symphony Orchestra ( dso.org ) would be appreciated by the family.  Please leave an online condolence to comfort the family.