Nita Regnier

We mourn the loss of Nita Carritte Regnier who died Saturday December 22nd. She was born in Detroit Michigan June 21st 1923. She graduated from the University of Michigan and was a writer and teacher for the rest of her life. She met her husband Jerome Regnier while teaching in New York City. They married in Morocco and had five daughters: Emmy, Julie, Henny, Felicie and Melanie.

Nita's writing career includes short stories and essays published in Redbook and The Atlantic Monthly. She taught in the Writing Center and created a memoir writing class at M.I.T. She taught the memoir writing class until two years ago and continued to participate in the class until one month before her death. After living in Cambridge, Massachusetts for over 35 years, she spent her last two years in Madison, WI. with daughter Henny and son-in-law Bill Brumsickle where she created an immediate community of friends and continued to write and teach. She enjoyed her daily stiff Manhattan, especially if son-in-law Bill made it. Nita was a superb story teller, world traveler, teacher, and polyglot. She never knew a stranger - her door and heart were open to everyone.

Nita was preceded in death by her husband Jerome Regnier. She is survived by her daughters Emmy (Kent Harrison), Julie (Dave Lange), Henny (Bill Brumsickle), Felicie (Dona Upson), Melanie (James Pugsley); grandchildren Cole, Renata, Ruby, Aidan, Corrina, Nate, Ben, Helen, Lilli, Addie; great grandson Carlos.

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