Meg Elizabeth Williams

Meg Elizabeth Williams passed away after a short but courageous battle with metastatic melanoma with her husband Rob Finn by her side in the early hours of March 15, 2026 at The Community Hospice House in Merrimack, NH. Meg ascended to heaven believing in Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior.

Meg was born on November 2, 1961 at Memorial Hospital in Nashua, NH. She is the seventh of eight daughters of Alun A. Williams and Veronica (Sis Hickey) Williams and the mother of Abigail (Gagne) Goen and Taylor Gagne. She attended public schools and was a 1980 graduate of Nashua High School where she was a proud Purple Panther. She completed her undergraduate in Philosophy and her Masters in Education Counseling at Rivier College all while being a single parent and holding three jobs simultaneously.

She began her career at Fairgrounds Junior High School in Nashua, NH, where she would meet her future husband Robert Finn who was a guidance counselor at FJHS. They celebrated over twenty five years together, recently marrying in November 2021. Meg began her career in Nashua as a guidance counselor. She was instrumental in creating and implementing the Gifted and Talented program for Nashua Schools and spent the majority of her career at Nottingham Elementary School in Hudson, NH, where she continued as a guidance counselor and formed many life long friendships. Meg worked through Covid 19 when cancer claimed her right eye and computer instruction became difficult, ending her career early.

Meg was so many things. She was an incredible human, a loving mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, and adventurer and friend. She started campfires in the woods to cook Dinty Moore Beef Stew, felled trees, stacked wood, jumped out of airplanes, rode motorcycles, moved her children across the country to cook for hundreds of skydivers, and enjoyed the occasional ice cold Corona with a lime. She created food pantries and food drives within her school community and was always the first one to volunteer. She painted murals at her school and dabbled in drawing and painting at home. She loved word games on the computer and crossword puzzles. She had a laugh that was contagious and she really could hold a tune. That twinkle in her eye could be dangerous and humorous at the same time. You never knew if you were going to get into “good trouble” or if that twinkle was followed by her sharp sense of humor.

Meg loved a great bonfire surrounded by her family and friends. She loved to dance and sing and she loved a good story, a good joke, and a good song. She built a home, not just a house, as a refuge for herself and her family where they could make memories with their cuzzies and their aunts and uncles and their friends. Family is everything!

Meg loved to spend time at her homes in Nashua, NH, Freedom, NH, and at Robs homes in Laurel, NY and Jupiter FL. As an avid yard-saler flipping furniture became her pastime when not traveling or redecorating her several happy places. She loved spending time at her lake house with her sisters, sharing meals and helping one another with household projects or just a simple boat ride or day at the beach. She equally loved spending time with Rob in Laurel, NY, spending evenings in the hot tub and looking at the ocean as he finished out his career before moving to NH.

Meg played the piano beautifully and entertained friends and family with hit songs by Billy Joel, Bonnie Raitt and various Christmas carols. She also knew every song to My Fair Lady and Funny Girl by heart and could sing every word to Glendale Train by the New Riders of the Purple Sage. She could write beautiful, meaningful or hilarious poems and recite poetry from memory: a favorite being “Around the Corner” by Charles Hanson illustrating how important it was to nurture friendships. Meg embraced this idea and lived a purposeful life connecting often with friends far and wide.

She was an avid cook and baker. Food was one of the many ways she expressed love and did so, often making cookies, bread, corn chowder or chicken noodle soup for friends and family: most often for her beloved Aunt Janie Spaulding. She loved good old fashioned rock and roll, easy listening, and a good show tune. Anything Barbra Streisand, John Denver or Garth Brooks would have her singing her heart out.

Meg’s superpower was that she had a way with people. She had a sharp mind and could bottom line a thought, clear a path to a difficult solution and create consensus among the diametrically opposed. She loved people and people loved her. She was kind beyond words. She firmly believed being kind was more important than being right and lived sharing that ideal with her friends, her family and her students, whom she loved. In her work as an elementary school counselor for more than thirty years she “loved her little people”.

She grew up in a large boisterous family filled with love and music where every birthday, wedding, christening and holiday were celebrated with friends and relatives. Uncle Charlie and Aunt Jerry, Gigi, the Nashua Spauldings, the Rhode Island Hickey’s, Crawford Shaw and Co., were all regular visitors and sometimes residents. She learned that there was always room, always another plate on the table, always time for one more. Meg personified these values and passed them on to her children and grandchildren.

She loved nothing more than her children Abby and Taylor and their children Hannah, Jack, Mathew and Tucker and was exceptionally proud of them all. She had incredibly special individual relationships with each of her sisters, her children and grandchildren and for that she was so grateful. She loved her husband Rob, who cared for her throughout her illness, a responsibility he considered an honor, and her step children Megan and Olivia, whom she loved as her own. Finally, we’d be remiss if we excluded her yapper of a dog Nellie.

Meg and Rob and their families took many trips to Disney, Bozeman Montana, overnight boating trips off Long Island Sound and of course Ossipee Lake which was a “right of passage” in her family and she and Rob even took multi-day motorcycle trips.

Meg leaves behind so many people who loved her. You all know who you are and how special you were to her. She carried all of you in her heart and you absolutely must know she thought of you all daily. She remembered and loved every single friendship.

Meg is survived by her husband Rob of Nashua, NH, her daughter Abigail and her husband Michael and their children Hannah, Jack and Mathew of Dartmouth, NH, and her son Taylor and his son Tucker of Bozeman, Montana and her step children Megan Finn and Olivia and Brandon Roth of Jupiter Florida.

The people who share every memory of her life on her short-lived journey are sisters Katie Anderson of Surry, NH, Jane and and Doug Verbeck of Freedom, NH, Sally and Dick Henry of Wells ME, Faith Gilbride of Freedom, NH, Martha Williams of Freedom, NH, Amy Williams Merrigan of Greenfield, NH, Rebecca Williams Kiritsy of Freedom, NH, and her favorite aunt Jane Spaulding of Nashua, NH, and uncle Bill Hickey whom she was in continued contact. Favorite cousins include George W. Hickey IV, Sue and Scott Carr and Judy Spaulding of Nashua, Deirdre Shaw Gibson and Jay Gibson of Santa Monica, CA, Melissa and Greg Fleming of Bedford, NY, Ellyn Hickey and Joe Broccoli of TX, and Emma and Gerry Harrison of AK, and all the Texas cousins.

Meg is predeceased by her Father and Mother Alun A. Williams and Veronica (Sis) Williams, her Mother in law Judith Finn, her aunts Ellen (Lucier) Hickey and Andree Hickey, her uncles Kenneth Spaulding and George W. Hickey III, cousins Cappy Testa and Crawford Shaw, her brothers in law Bruce Anderson and David Gilbride, and a nephew James Anthony.

Meg will miss all of the following nieces and nephews and their children and they will miss her.

Sara and Jeff Beaudry of Manchester, NH, Ryan and Chevy Chevalier and Jason Anderson of Surry, NH, Holly and Harry Glimenakis of Leominster, MA, Chad Verbeck and Melanie Smith of Exeter, NH, Jennifer Daley of Wells, ME, Michael and Mary Phillips of Dorchester, MA, Emily and Dave Baker of Litchfield, NH, Christopher and Angie Gilbride of Redondo Beach, CA, Adam Hulslander of Salem, MA, Samantha and Mark Marshall of Middleton, MA, Ben and Taylor Anthony of Greenfield, NH, Ashleigh and Dion Selles of Greenfield, NH, Kailey and Drew Roeder of Charlestown, MA, Alex Kiritsy and his partner, Jenelle Pullen of Hampton, NH, Griffin and Molly Kiritsy of Keene, NH, Tess Kiritsy and her partner Caleb Sechrist of CA.

She will be terribly missed by her life long partner in crime, confidant and best friend Maida K. Latvis.

Donations can be made in Meg’s name to The Community Hospice House at 210 Naticook Road, Merrimack, NH, 03054

A Mass is being offered for Meg on Sunday, April 12, 2026 at 9:30am by the Mary Jane Spaulding Family at St. Patrick Parish on Spring Street in Nashua, NH.

We invite everyone who would like to join us for a gathering to honor Meg to The Hunt Building on Library Hill (Main Street) in Nashua, NH on May 16, 2026 from 11-2.

We look forward to seeing so many people who loved Meg and would like to share something special about her.

It’s so hard to say good-bye.