Mary Lee Jamieson

Mary Lee Jamieson of Lawrenceville and Princeton, New Jersey, died on March 9, 2026, at the age of 89. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Helen Lee and Paul Revere O’Connell, she graduated from the Bancroft School and went on to earn her degree from Smith College. After college she lived in Cambridge and worked in the personnel department of John Hancock in Boston. There she met her husband, Thomas Crawford Jamieson, Jr., on a blind date during his third year at Harvard Law School. They married in June 1960 and, after a two-month honeymoon in Europe, settled in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

While raising their four children, Mary Lee devoted herself to volunteer work, including service as a Trustee of Montclair State University. At the age of 40 she began a long and fulfilling career at The Lawrenceville School, where she held several faculty positions, among them Director of Parent Programs, Director of Special Events, and Assistant to the Head Master. She was elected an honorary member of the class of 1952. She and her husband shared a deep love of travel, golf, and their home in Vermont. When Tom became ill, she retired early from Lawrenceville to care for him. In the years that followed she volunteered at St. Francis Medical Center, which named its Cancer Pavilion in his memory. For ten years she also served as a Trustee of Stuart Country Day School and co-chaired its Endowment Campaign.

She is survived by her four children: Crawford of Hong Kong; J.J. and his wife Tana of Santa Monica, California; Lee and her husband Jack Englert of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts; and Paul and his wife Stacey of Syosset, New York. She also leaves twelve grandchildren: Ford, Rhys, Hart, Kenya, Liam, Connor, Alex, Cole, Blair, Haley, Tom, and Sally; her sister Sue Sunderland and husband Dave of Weston, Massachusetts; her brother Paul O’Connell of Manitou Springs, Colorado; her sister-in-law Sue Jamieson of Atlanta, Georgia; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her beloved husband Tom Jamieson and her sister Ann Anderson.