Mig Boyle, known for her big personality and generosity of spirit, died on November 12, 2025 in Rhinebeck, New York. She was 86 and had struggled with congestive heart failure.

She was born April 6, 1939, as Ann Margaret Boyle in Oil City, Pennsylvania, but was known to the world as Mig. She was deeply interested in public affairs and was a social justice advocate all her life. She was always working her way through a pile of magazines and newspapers on her desk. She was a wonderful hostess and a loyal friend.

Mig studied art history at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, a small women's school near Boston, and later earned a master's degree from George Washington University. For a time after that, in Washington, D.C., she edited a newsletter for the National Council of Catholic Women. Later, in New Mexico, she worked on a reservation. She subsequently made her way to Kansas City, Missouri, where she worked at the National Catholic Reporter, the independent lay weekly newspaper, new at the time but becoming known for bringing serious journalistic standards to reporting on the church.

There she worked with the paper's founding editor, Robert Hoyt, who she married in 1970. The couple later moved to New York City, first to Brooklyn and then to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. On her West 87th Street block, Mig was the driving force in a successful effort to halt the conversion of Capitol Hall, a ten-story Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotel, to luxury housing, turning it instead into a nonprofit residence with extensive services for disabled, poor, and elderly people in danger of becoming homeless. At the time, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was gentrifying fast. Capitol Hall, with 201 housing units, is still helping vulnerable men and women today, managed by Goddard-Riverside.

Along with garnering community and political and financial support for the Capitol Hall project, Mig was tasked with interviewing potential tenants to see if they qualified for housing and services. A friend who accompanied her on one of those sessions remembers Mig interviewing a man in the place he was living, a large drainpipe near 79th Street. The friend reports that Mig was compassionate, professional, and unflappable.

She is survived by her daughter Sarah Hoyt and Sarah's longtime partner, Dan Alaimo, and by four of her five siblings—Mary, Michael, John, and Peter Boyle. (Her other brother, Patrick, preceded her in death.)

Mig is also survived by three of Bob Hoyt's six children from his first marriage, Michael Hoyt, Mary T. Durkin, and Anne Hoyt Scavone. (Three of the six—Tim, Jamie, and Mary Jo Hoyt, preceded her in death.)

She is survived too by Ron Caswell, her longtime assistant, caretaker, and faithful friend.

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be sent to Goddard Riverside, via its website at goddard.org, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, or any charity of your choosing.

Visitation services for Mig Boyle will take place on Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 at Burnett & White Funeral Homes at 91 E. Market St. Rhinebeck NY, from 2pm to 6pm.

Arrangements are under the care of Burnett & White Funeral Homes, 91 E. Market St. Rhinebeck, NY.