Obituary: Millicent Chace Leuba
Millicent Chace Leuba, 91, died on Oct. 13, 2024.
Millicent (Mimi) Chace Leuba passed away peacefully on Oct. 13, 2024 at the age of 91 after living gracefully with Alzheimer’s for 15 years. For the last week of her life she was with family who surrounded her with stories and song, humor and love. She was predeceased by her husband of 67 years, Edward (Ted) Russell Leuba. Mimi brought joy and wisdom to all who knew her. To her last breath, she inspired love in those she touched.
Mimi was born in Hamilton, Ohio on Aug. 15, 1933. She grew up in the quintessential college town of Oxford Ohio, attended Miami University there where she met the love of her life, Ted Leuba when she was a freshman, he a senior. They married a year later, moved to Yellow Springs Ohio and eventually lived in Camp Hill Pennsylvania, Birmingham Michigan and Easton Connecticut, making lifelong friends along the way.
Mimi cherished motherhood, instilling in her children the values of honesty, integrity, social awareness, critical thinking, empathy and family. She was a social activist as well as a respected marriage and family counselor. She held degrees in English from Miami University, her teaching certificate from Wayne State University and her MSW from the University of Bridgeport.
The family spent time in the summer on the shores of Lake Michigan, and for the past 30 years the extended Leuba family has gathered together on Martha’s Vineyard. Mimi and Ted loved visiting family and friends across the US and traveling abroad as well, especially to Mimi’s Paris and Ted’s Swiss Alps.
Mimi is survived by her four children: Pam Bramble and her husband Frank Bramble, Jennifer Leuba and her husband Victor Hou, John Leuba and his wife Alicia Lay Leuba, and Tom Leuba; and by nine loving grandchildren: Kate, Caroline, Astrid, Spencer, Chace, Yeats, John, Will and Catherine. She is also survived by her younger sister Elizabeth Chace Pulley, her sisters-in law Betsy Petersen, Carol Leuba, and Kathy Burlitch, Kathy’s husband Jim Burlitch, and 18 nieces and nephews.
The family is planning a spring Celebration of Life.
