York, PA – Margaret Jenks, 92, of Granville passed away on February 11, 2022, at Autumn House East in York, PA. Margaret Ruth Jenks, known to her many friends as Peggy, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Azuba Ruth (Seaver) and Frank Garrett Ward and spent her childhood in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Technical High School in Springfield and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics specializing in Dietetics from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1951. That same year she married Robert (Bob) Charles Jenks.
During her lifetime Peggy would end up living in eight different US states and traveling to all fifty. She and Bob also traveled abroad, visiting many European countries.
Peggy enjoyed spending time with family and friends at Langholm, the family's cottage on Lake St. Catherine in Wells, Vermont, where she'd been summering since she was a child. She especially loved going swimming.
In 1995, she purchased her Granville family home built by her great-grandfather where she lived until August 2021. Due to her failing health she moved to York PA in August 2021.
Peggy has been a family genealogist since 1964 and a cemetery transcriber since 1978. She has published award-winning books listing all the cemetery inscriptions of the twenty-seven towns in Rutland County, Vermont, and of Granville, Washington County, New York…over 225 cemeteries in all. She has also researched the many carvers of Rutland County stones
A memorial service and burial will be held in Granville, New York, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Margaret's name to the Vermont Old Cemetery Association for the repair of Rutland County gravestones.
During her lifetime Peggy would end up living in eight different US states and traveling to all fifty. She and Bob also traveled abroad, visiting many European countries.
Peggy enjoyed spending time with family and friends at Langholm, the family's cottage on Lake St. Catherine in Wells, Vermont, where she'd been summering since she was a child. She especially loved going swimming.
In 1995, she purchased her Granville family home built by her great-grandfather where she lived until August 2021. Due to her failing health she moved to York PA in August 2021.
Peggy has been a family genealogist since 1964 and a cemetery transcriber since 1978. She has published award-winning books listing all the cemetery inscriptions of the twenty-seven towns in Rutland County, Vermont, and of Granville, Washington County, New York…over 225 cemeteries in all. She has also researched the many carvers of Rutland County stones
A memorial service and burial will be held in Granville, New York, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Margaret's name to the Vermont Old Cemetery Association for the repair of Rutland County gravestones.
York, PA – Margaret Jenks, 92, of Granville passed away on February 11, 2022, at Autumn House East in York, PA. Margaret Ruth Jenks, known to her many friends as Peggy, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts to Azuba Ruth (Seaver) and Frank Garrett Ward and spent her childhood in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Technical High School in Springfield and went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics specializing in Dietetics from Drexel University in Philadelphia in 1951. That same year she married Robert (Bob) Charles Jenks.
During her lifetime Peggy would end up living in eight different US states and traveling to all fifty. She and Bob also traveled abroad, visiting many European countries.
Peggy enjoyed spending time with family and friends at Langholm, the family's cottage on Lake St. Catherine in Wells, Vermont, where she'd been summering since she was a child. She especially loved going swimming.
In 1995, she purchased her Granville family home built by her great-grandfather where she lived until August 2021. Due to her failing health she moved to York PA in August 2021.
Peggy has been a family genealogist since 1964 and a cemetery transcriber since 1978. She has published award-winning books listing all the cemetery inscriptions of the twenty-seven towns in Rutland County, Vermont, and of Granville, Washington County, New York…over 225 cemeteries in all. She has also researched the many carvers of Rutland County stones
A memorial service and burial will be held in Granville, New York, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Margaret's name to the Vermont Old Cemetery Association for the repair of Rutland County gravestones.
During her lifetime Peggy would end up living in eight different US states and traveling to all fifty. She and Bob also traveled abroad, visiting many European countries.
Peggy enjoyed spending time with family and friends at Langholm, the family's cottage on Lake St. Catherine in Wells, Vermont, where she'd been summering since she was a child. She especially loved going swimming.
In 1995, she purchased her Granville family home built by her great-grandfather where she lived until August 2021. Due to her failing health she moved to York PA in August 2021.
Peggy has been a family genealogist since 1964 and a cemetery transcriber since 1978. She has published award-winning books listing all the cemetery inscriptions of the twenty-seven towns in Rutland County, Vermont, and of Granville, Washington County, New York…over 225 cemeteries in all. She has also researched the many carvers of Rutland County stones
A memorial service and burial will be held in Granville, New York, at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Margaret's name to the Vermont Old Cemetery Association for the repair of Rutland County gravestones.
