Margueritte Eleanor Kimball was born on October 19, 1906, in Clinton, Massachusetts, and was raised there and in Nashua, New Hampshire. After the 1926 death of her father, a railroad worker, the family moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts where Margueritte’s mother ran a dressmaking business. Margueritte graduated in 1926 from Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Boston and worked for several years as an accountant in Cambridge. After her mother remarried in 1940, she was freed from many responsibilities related to family caregiving, and Margueritte pursued art school, attending life drawing workshops at the Copley Society Studio in Boston. Margueritte traveled to the Detroit area in 1941 to visit a relative, and while there visited Cranbrook for the first time. While standing under the peristyle of the newly constructed Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, she sensed “this place was meant for her.” She was introduced to painting instructor Wallace Mitchell, who examined a few of Margueritte's drawings, and she was accepted as a student at the Academy. She began attending classes in the summer of 1942 and, at the same time began her career at the Academy, acting as its financial secretary for the next twenty-six years. Known by many in the Cranbrook community, Margueritte became close with the students and faculty at the Academy and documented her years at Cranbrook with hundreds of photographs and many folders of correspondence. Through the years she remained in close contact with several of the Academy's graduates, collecting materials from their most recent endeavors and art exhibitions. After her retirement in 1968, Margueritte returned to the Boston area, continued to dabble in work as an artist, and subsequently was featured in several exhibitions. She continued to keep in close contact with Cranbrook and was always well aware of the happenings at the Academy. Although Margueritte never graduated from the Academy, she did receive an honorary degree from the school late in her life. Margueritte passed away September 1, 1995 at the age of 89.