Miriam "Mim" Hurvitt passed away on November 5, 2025 peacefully at Ruth McLean Hospice, Braintree, at 100 years old.

 

She was born in Boston in 1925, grew up in Brighton, attending the Harriet Baldwin Elementary School and graduating from Brighton High School.  She then went on to Simmons College, graduating in 1946.

 

In 1949, she married Jacob (Jack) Hurvitt and moved to Newton where she would live for 66 years. Mark, her only son, was born in 1958.  During the Newton years, she painted, played golf, and in 1975 went to work for a small software company in Waltham called SofTech.  It grew by leaps and bounds, and she grew with it, retiring in 1995 as the Director of Corporate Communications.  In 2015 she sold her house in Newton and moved to Linden Ponds in Hingham when she was 90, never having been to Hingham before.

 

Mim had three wonderful grandchildren: George (Blue Hill, ME), Max (Victoria, BC), and Celia (Queens, NYC) as well as three amazing step grandchildren: Truman (Nashua, NH), Grant (Blue Hill, ME), and Eve (Orono, ME).  Plus she leaves her loving son and daughter-in-law Tracy from Maine.

 

Mim made friends easily everywhere she went, and was very social, kind, and caring.  When she arrived in a room and you were there, you knew it!

 

She loved playing Bridge, in the Butt Room at Simmons College, or at Oak Leaf Lounge at Linden Ponds. She also loved playing golf at Riverside or Ponkapoag.  She was an accomplished oil painter, an addicted reader, a daily Boston Globe crossword puzzle doer, and a devoted Red Sox fan from her first game at Fenway in 1937 with her father Max, to the last game of the 2025 Wild Card Series.

 

Mostly, she was fun, easy, engaged, and had an irrepressible spirit.  And, no one at the Linden Ponds dinner table will for forget Mim’s daily glass of her beloved chardonnay, or her W (“whatever’) gesture with her arms and shoulders when the conversation got too heavy.

 

Like some famous sports and entertainment figures (Beyonce, Shohei) she had one name she was known by: Mim.  Unlike those names, Mim was a one syllable name: crisp, bright, and unforgettable.

 

We will miss her daily.