Molly Wheaton McGreevy (June 11, 1936 – November 1, 2015) was an American actress and later ordained priest, known for her role as

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on the daytime

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Biography

Born Mary Wheaton Paine and called "Molly", she was the daughter of Hugh Eustis Paine, Sr. (died 1973) and Helen Clirehugh Duncan Paine. Her grandfather was the paper manufacturer and banker Augustus G. Paine, Jr. from

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. She first married stockbroker Thomas J. McGreevy of

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. Together they had three daughters, Pamela, Jessica, and Barbara. The couple divorced in the early 1970s, and she subsequently married

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, a film and television actor who played

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''. One of her first movies was '' Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue'' in 1974, in which she played a salesgirl. She subsequently appeared in the recurring role of wealthy Rae Woodard's gossipy society pal

in ''Ryan's Hope'' from 1977 to 1981. She became an ordained Episcopal

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in the 1980s. She worked at the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, Greenwich Village for many years, ministering to

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patients. She and Hindman later moved to

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, where she worked as associate rector of St. Francis’ Church until her retirement. Hindman died in Stamford in 2003. In 2008, she moved to a senior community near

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. She died on November 1, 2015, aged 79.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McGreevey, Molly 1936 births American television actresses 2015 deaths American Episcopal priests 20th-century American Episcopalians 20th-century American women 21st-century American women