SUSAN CHARLOTTE NAGY, Needlepoint Artist/Designer dies at 84.
Born in Hungary, Charlotte came to this country with her family shortly following the anti-communist Hungarian Revolution in 1956. The wife of the late Dr. Charles K. Nagy, a high government official in the pre-communist regime of Hungary after WW II, she and her family were no longer safe in Budapest once the Revolution was suppressed.
Leaving all of their belongings and friends behind in Hungary, and unable to speak or understand English, Charlotte made the difficult decision to leave her homeland, protecting her children by escaping by rail and on foot through electrified fences, and past machine-gun turrets and trenches, into Austria. In 1957, they were selected by the National Academy of Sciences for entry into the United States.
The family settled in Boston and later Weston, as Charles, with several advanced degrees and fluent in four languages, became the Director of the Computer Research Center at Boston University Medical Center, and Charlotte created a needlepoint business, Nimble Fingers on Newbury Street in Boston.
Charlotte was an accomplished artist and well-respected, as Nimble Fingers was honored by Town and Country Magazine as one of the 50 outstanding needlepoint shops in the United States, with the Cabot, Lodge, Yawkey, and Kennedy families as regular customers of her original, hand-painted needlepoint canvas designs for their homes. She also designed many pieces for the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and was featured at the New York Museum of Fine Arts. Many of her customers traveled across the country and from overseas just to obtain some of her original designs.
Mrs. Nagy leaves her son, Peter C. Nagy of Boston, and her daughter, Susan Ehrreich-Sisak of Sudbury, who is also known in the Boston area for her artistic talents with the Boston Ballet and currently as a ballroom dance instructor. She also leaves two grandchildren, Sandra (Ehrreich) Fredrick and Dennis Ehrreich, and four adored great grandchildren, all of West Yarmouth.
In more recent years, Mrs. Nagy retired and moved from Weston where she lived for over 34 years to the Southgate Retirement Community in Shrewsbury.
Visiting hours are Sunday, Feb. 1st from 1-3 PM in the Britton-Shrewsbury Funeral Home, 648 Main St., Shrewsbury with a service immediately following. Relatives and friends are cordially invited. Cremation will be private. Donations in her name may be made to the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation, P.O. Box J, Gracie Station, New York, NY 10028.