Margaret Zimansky

MARGARET ZIMANSKY

Iowa City

Margaret Lacy Zimansky, 97, of Iowa City, died Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, in her home at Oaknoll

Retirement Residence

following a stroke.

She was born March 30, 1916, in Dubuque, Iowa, the daughter of Frank

Robinson Lacy and Jessie Hammett Lacy. After

graduating from St.

Katharine's School in

Davenport in 1932, she

received a B.A. in Latin from Bryn Mawr College in 1937 and an M.A. in

English from the

University of Iowa in 1941. She taught Latin and

English at St. Katharine's between 1937 and 1942.

In 1942, she went to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a

cryptanalyst for Army

Intelligence at Arlington Hall. In 1943, she married Lt. Curt A. Zimansky, a member of the University of Iowa English Department, who was then serving in the Army. At the end of the war they came home to Iowa City, where they raised their four

children.

After the death of her husband in 1973, she

became active in the

development of Willow-wind School of Iowa City as a board member and

volunteer Latin teacher.

She is survived by her four sons, Curt of Davis, Calif., Paul of Stony Brook, N.Y., Robert of Basel,

Switzerland, and David of Galveston, Texas; and two grandsons, Paul Cadden-Zimansky of Rhinebeck, N.Y., and Andrew Zimansky of Geneva,

Switzerland. She is also survived by her younger brother, Benjamin Lacy of Cohasset, Mass.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, one brother and her husband.

No public services will be held.

Memorials in memory of Margaret Zimansky may be made to Willowwind School in Iowa City at

www.willowwind.org.

Online condolences can be sent to her family at

www.gayandciha.com.