M. Vance Munro died Monday, July 5 in Boston after a long illness. He was 77.

Raised in Natick and Oak Bluffs, Vance spent summers cooking at the family restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard, Munro’s Boston House. He was in the class of 1956 at Tabor Academy in Marion, which he attended on an “Island Boy” scholarship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1960, with a degree in international affairs, and earned his law degree from Harvard University in 1963. The same year, he joined a Boston firm later known as Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett. He practiced corporate law, retiring as a senior partner in 1990.

Between 1975 and 2002, he served as a trustee at Tabor Academy. He enjoyed antiques, travel, cribbage, Scrabble, and preparing traditional New England cuisine with his family and friends.

Vance leaves his fiancée, Louise Savary of Framingham; his three daughters: Heidi M. Wood and her husband Jonathon of Arlington, Va.; Elisabeth M. Ledwell and her husband Patrick of Falmouth; and Heather Munro of Louisville, Colo.; and eight grandchildren: Lukas, Logan, Sasha, Gia, Aidan, Patrick, Meredith and Nathan.

He was predeceased by his parents George L. Munro Sr. and Florence E. (Murphy) Munro, and his brother George (Larry) Munro Jr.

A memorial service will be held on August 4 at the Plymouth Church, 87 Edgell Road in Framingham, at 11 a.m. Interment will be private.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a scholarship donation to the Tabor Academy community scholarship fund at taboracademy.org/gifts.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Norton Funeral Home in Framingham, nortonfuneralhome.com.