Margaret Carroll "Peggy" Cummings

1960 - 2025

Margaret Carroll "Peggy" Cummings

April 13, 1960 - September 4, 2025

Margaret Carroll "Peggy" Cummings, 65, of Richmond, Va., was preceded in death by paternal and maternal grandparents and multiple aunts and uncles. She is survived by her husband, Timothy Joseph Healy; son, Sean Collins Healy; daughter, Maeve Carroll Healy; grandsons, Callum James Healy, Rowan Joseph Healy and Flynn Collins Healy; parents, John "Jack" Cummings Jr. and Lily "Lee-Lee" Kirby Cummings; sisters, Kathleen Bogue Cummings and Mary Mohler Carlson (and husband Curtis Carlson); brother, Jack Cummings III (and wife Barbara Walsh); nephews, McCormick Cummings Carlson, John Bogue Cummings and Kellan Weaver Carlson; and niece, Halle Gray Carlson.

Peggy fought a hard and courageous battle with stage IV metastatic breast cancer for over three years, passing quietly at home in the early afternoon of September 4, 2025, approximately two days after gathering her husband, children, parents and siblings for final loving words to all. She lived a wonderful, fulfilling life, born on a military base in Killeen, Texas, then spending her young childhood in the original hometown of her parents, grandparents and multiple aunts, uncles and cousins, Catonsville, Md., before moving to Richmond in 1969. She attended grade school at St. Edward's Catholic School and high school at Marymount, where she met some of her closest lifelong friends that were by her side in her final days. She enrolled at VCU and spent approximately three years there as a full-time student before embarking on what would prove to become an impressive, pioneering professional career. Growing up in a household with a Salisbury Country Club tennis teaching professional as a father and eventually professional tennis player as a sister, it came as no surprise that Peggy's first career stop was with a small sports marketing agency in Houston, Texas focusing on promoting women's professional tennis events. At only 22 years old, Peggy served as the tournament director for the Central Fidelity International Invitation Tournament in Richmond; she would go on to manage multiple other major events, such as the Virginia Slims of Houston, Dallas, Texas, and Florida, and the World Mixed Doubles Championship at the Houston Astrodome. Peggy's work on this circuit eventually brought her to Tim's then hometown of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Introduced by mutual friends, Peggy and Tim were engaged in 1984 and married in July 1985. Peggy and Tim lived in Ft. Lauderdale for three years before relocating back to Richmond, where both Sean and Maeve were born and raised.

Once back in Richmond, Peggy's career flourished as she held multiple executive global marketing and communications positions with several prominent employers, including Central Fidelity Bank, Carter Ryley Thomas Public Relations, Mead Westvaco/Westrock, Bon Secours Health System, Ortho Virginia and Silgan Dispensing. At each of these jobs, she provided unique perspectives, steadfast mentorship and creative solutions that earned her tremendous respect and admiration from her teams, colleagues, and bosses. In addition to her extensive corporate experience, Peggy always had a passion for fashion, aesthetics, and beauty, and decided to pursue that passion by returning to school to become a Master Medical Esthetician and Laser Specialist in 2006-2007. She thereafter owned and operated her own skin care salon, LilyDot, named after her beloved grandmother, and designed to bring each one of her clients the confidence to thrive in their own natural beauty.

Peggy was an incredibly loving, devoted, caring and wonderful daughter, sister, wife, mother and grandmother, full of vigor, joy, humor and happiness that she shared with everyone around her. Peggy was always one to put the needs of others before herself and above all, she poured every ounce of love she had into her family. She was a fantastic soccer mom to Sean and Maeve, and a tremendous supporter of Tim's long self-employment legal career and his devotion to his alma mater, Notre Dame. One of her lifelong messages to Sean and Maeve was to always be kind, and she lived true to that with everyone she ever met, knew, and loved. Peggy will absolutely be greatly missed, and she will always be remembered and loved.

The funeral service to celebrate Peggy's life will be held at St. Bridget's Catholic Church in Richmond on Friday, September 26, 2025 at 11 a.m. Family and friends will be received at a private reception later that afternoon.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Chapters Health Hospice of Richmond (https://www.chaptershealth.org/for-volunteers-donors/) or TurnUp, a non-profit, non-partisan organization focused on increasing voter turnout and voter participation (https://www.turnup.us/ways-to-give).

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