Margaret E. Young

Margaret E. Young, known as Peggy Gene as a child, and Peggy for the rest of her life, has died just short of her 91st birthday in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Her husband, William C. Young, whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower, died in 1998 at the age of 86. The couple was married for 58 years and had four children. Peggy lived her first seventy-five years in Montclair, New Jersey, where her husband was also raised. They summered in Manomet, Mass and she spent the last fifteen years of her life in Duxbury. Mrs. Young spoke and/or read eight languages, and was especially fluent in French. She first went to France with her family before the age of ten, attending school with her brother John in Etretat near the chalk shaded cliffs in Normandy. She returned 18 more times in her life, the last several accompanied by one or more of her ten grandchildren. To them she was known as Memere If she had a single regret in life it was that she hadnt had the chance to take any of her now seven great grand children. Mrs. Young attended Smith College and was secretary of her class at Kimberley Academy, now Montclair-Kimberley Academy for two generations. She was a docent at the Montclair Art Museum for 21 years, President of the Residents at the Village at Duxbury from 1996 to 1999 and on the Board of Governors from 1999 to 2004. Mrs. Young was a writer, observer and chronicler and at age 83, she wrote her memoirs, set down in long hand, a remarkable personal history of the people she loved and the times in which she lived. Mrs. Youngs daughter, the fifth consecutive generation family member named Margaret (Margy)a tradition which has now continued to a seventh generationdied in 2005. Mrs. Young is survived by her sons Peter of Birmingham Alabama, Mason of Manomet, Mass, John of Brentwood California, her son-in-law John Robb of Summit, New Jersey, and their families. In lieu of flowers contributions may be sent to the Cranberry Hospice, 36 Cordage Park Circle, Plymouth, MA, 02360, and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, at P.O. Box 1770 Manomet, MA, 02345