Margery Poole Taylor Zinn

Margery Poole Taylor Zinn, who first came to Woods Hole as a child, later returned to work at the Marine Biological Laboratory, and finally, to live, has died at the age of 93. She died in Columbus, Ohio, on August 12.
She was born in Manhattan, Kansas, the daughter of James and Leona Poole, and grew up in Hanover, New Hampshire, where her father taught botany at Dartmouth College.
She spent her summers in Woods Hole, where her father taught in the botany department at the Marine Biological Laboratory from 1927 to 1933. She returned to Woods Hole and worked on the MBL collecting crew in the summers.
After graduating from Radcliffe College in 1937, she went to work as a research assistant to Dr. Karl Sax, director of the Harvard Cytology Department.
At the beginning of World War II, Mrs. Zinn joined the Armed Forces Research & Development project to replace the unpopular chlorine Lister Bags with an iodine compound.
In 1943, she married Richard Taylor, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After the war, he joined IBM and they moved to Binghamton, New York, transferring to Ossining, New York, with a home in Chappaqua. While in Chappaqua, she worked at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Research Station in nearby Ossining.
In 1980, her husband died.
Retiring to Woods Hole, she volunteered at various research programs at MBL and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, from 1981 to 2004, marsh pollution studies, pond watches, and as a tour guide at MBL.
She lived in Mashpee briefly, in 1981 and 1982.
In 1988, she married Donald J. Zinn, a zoologist in Woods Hole and retired professor. They lived in Falmouth. Dr. Zinn died in 1996.
Ms. Zinn continued volunteering, serving on the board of the Salt Pond Areas Bird Sanctuaries, on the Exhibit Committee and as a summer docent at the Woods Hole Historical Museum, was a member of the Quissett Harbor Land Trust, and also a senior member of the Woods Hole Golf Club.
Her last three years were spent in an assisted living facility in Ohio.
She leaves a daughter, Elizabeth Taylor of Brewster; a son, Donald Taylor of Westerville, Ohio; two grandchildren, Ryan Taylor of Atlanta, Georgia, and Kelly Taylor of Westerville, Ohio; two sisters, Barbara Poole Hall of Orford, New Hampshire, and Janet Poole Mischler of Bethesda, Maryland; two stepsons, Donald B. Zinn and Jeffrey A. Zinn; and other family.
A private family memorial service will be held in Woods Hole.