Margaret Anne “Meg” Custer, born June 20, 1950 to Alfred W. and Anne Mackenzie Custer, began summering in a little red cottage on Capitol Island soon after. These were the days when bottles of milk and bakery goods were delivered to the doorstep and Mr. Tilton drove a station wagon with loudspeakers and "Jesus Saves" atop. Elliot Pierce was the devoted island caretaker and what is now the island's marina was a wharf with a post office and penny candy store and tie-up for Harold Wade's cod and tuna fishing boat, the Nancy W. Meg's summer days evolved from swimming at the middle beach and hosting a roadside lemonade and sea glass stand to sailing Turnabouts at the intown Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club. Later the BHYC moved to West Harbor and the Custer family acquired Boothbay Harbor One Design #13, and named her Blithe Spirit. By her teenage years Meg had cut her two long braids and was teaching sailing at Boothbay Harbor and Camden yacht clubs.

Off-season Meg was such a brilliant student that her grandfather proposed she return to the Custer home country to complete her secondary school education. Meg attended and graduated from the Hochalpines Institut in Ftan, Switzerland. She then attended Vassar College and transferred to Yale University, graduating in 1972 with Yale's first class of women. It was during her undergraduate years that Meg began the practice of Transcendental Meditation. For the remainder of her life she was a leader in the TM movement and lived in India, Holland, Switzerland, the Philippines, Thailand, and Puerto Rico. In 1975 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of Transcendental Meditation, invited Meg to lead girls' and womens' education projects globally which she took on with skill and unwavering focus.

Meg was a diligent correspondent, keeper of the family history, and close friend to many. She ascended to the afterlife the morning of July 7, 2026 leaving her sisters Judy Custer and Nancy Custer Carroll, brother-in-law Jim Carroll, niece Clara Carroll and her family, Dave, Sally, Noah, and Tern Cutler, and nephew Finn Carroll and his family, Lauren, Jeremiah, and Tommy Carroll, her Mackenzie relatives, and many close friends around the world.

Meg took to heart both our beloved sailboat Blithe Spirit as well as the Shelley poem, "To the Skylark," from whence the boat's name originated and which she could beautifully recite. The poem begins "Hail to thee Blithe Spirit" and within the poem the soaring skylark's song is a metaphor for unbridled joy, spiritual enlightenment, and freedom. Similarly to the skylark, Meg strove to elevate the human spirit and spread untethered optimism.