Photo credit: Rachel Ronn.
It is with great sorrow that I announce the passing of a life-long Villager, a member of our Bell Committee and my dear friend for 50 years. Mimi Shoup Miller was a committed supporter; if she believed in you, she gave generously—her enthusiasm and her time, and she was known fondly as “the Mayor of Greenwich Avenue.” I’m sorry she won’t be here to see us achieve our goal of re-lighting the Jefferson Market Courthouse. She will be the inspiration we need to complete the task, and memories of her bubbly smile will be with us always.
Friends of the Jefferson Market Library
Cynthia Crane, Chair
I knew Mimi from some time in the early 1970s… when she told me of sliding down the leg of Mack the Knife in Threepenny Opera… or in turn being friends of another woman–who lived out in one of the Hamptsons who was also friends with two other actresses, Sandra Dee and Tuesday Weld… her father was part of the cafeteria/ cafe set as opposed to the bar set in the Village…she was a representative of what it meant to be a Villager…her beautiful apartment on Greenwich Avenue… the knowing of what it was like to a Village kid…
I knew Mimi from some time in the mid 70s and vividly remember her telling me of being an actress and sliding down the leg of Mack the Knife night after night in the original production of Threepenny Opera… she was friends with a woman who lived in one of the Hamptons who looked after young actresses and two names were always mentioned Sandra Dee and Tuesday Weld… she was a real village kid–her father was part of the cafeteria set as opposed to the bar set.. her father always described Senior citizen centers as Senile Citizen Centers but used them all the time…she was kind and helped me when I had to make a radical change in what I was doing and as such saved my life… she shared her happiness and often disappointments but never let things get her down… she was one of those rare encouragers who did it not to help herself but because she took pleasure in seeing others make good… she understood the value of holding on to what was good so held on to her beautiful apartment on Greenwich Avenue trough many attempts to get her out..I knew her sister and her daughter who went on to success out West…