Margaret Thrower, 93, always adventurous

Margaret Thrower would never let a little thing like age get in the way of living.

A world traveler, the Buckhead resident was in her 80s when she climbed Ben Nevis, the highest mountain of the British Isles, and was nearly in her 90s when she visited Cuba.

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Margaret Thrower and husband Randolph visited the Great Wall of China in 1988. They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary Feb. 2, and their relationship was called ‘almost a magical one.’

“She was very, very curious about everything,” said her daughter, Patricia Thrower Barmeyer of Atlanta. “She was a sponge. She just voraciously consumed life. She was always ready for the next adventure.”

Margaret Munroe Thrower, 93, died Tuesday at the William Breman Jewish Home, where she was rehabilitating from a broken hip suffered in a fall a month ago. She died of complications from the fall. The body was cremated. A memorial service will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Northside United Methodist Church.

Born in Quincy, Fla., Margaret Logan Munroe married Randolph William Thrower in 1939. She was a graduate of Wesleyan College in Macon, and he was an Emory University law school grad who was practicing with Sutherland, Tuttle & Brennan law firm (now Sutherland).

The couple settled in Atlanta’s Collier Hills neighborhood. During World War II, they moved around the country while Mr. Thrower was with the FBI and then in the Marine Corps, returning to Atlanta in 1946, when Mr. Thrower rejoined his law firm.

Over the years, with family and friends, they traveled to France, Greece, China, Russia, Egypt, Spain, Ireland, Turkey and many other places around the globe.

The Throwers always were the first ones ready to go on the various legs of their trips and never missed a thing, said their friends and fellow travelers Bill and Carol Lewis Fox of Decatur.

“We would be out in the 108-degree heat,” said Carol Fox, of their 2001 trip to Egypt, “and they had a smile on their face and never complained. Everyone just fell in love with them when they met them.”

Mrs. Thrower was a gardener and an accomplished artist with a great sense of humor, her daughter said.

“The most extraordinary thing about her was the way she was able to connect with anybody and everybody, and she did that all over Atlanta, all over the world, until the day she died,” Ms. Barmeyer said.

A generous contributor to her alma mater, Mrs. Thrower always wrote to Wesleyan’s alumnae office several times a year to tell the women’s college of her classmates’ news, said the college’s president, Ruth Knox.

She never missed alumnae meetings in Atlanta, Ms. Knox said, “driving herself well into her nineties and always being the best looking woman in the room.”

On Feb. 2, Margaret and Randolph Thrower celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with family and friends in a small dinner party at the Jewish Home.

“Their relationship was almost a magical one, just a lifelong romance that was almost legendary among those that know them,” said longtime family friend Laura Jones Hardman, of Buckhead. “They had such consistency of spirit that it captivated everyone around them, of every generation.”

Additional survivors include her daughters Margaret Thrower MacCary and Laura Thrower Harris, both of New York, and Mary Thrower Wickham of Richmond; and a son, Randolph William Thrower Jr. of Decatur; a sister, Julia Munroe Woodward, of Quincy, Fla.; 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.