Peters, Margaret died March 30, 2007, at her home in Auburn, ME. She was born Margaret (Peggy) Claire McGrath on October 28, 1930 in Cambridge, MA. In 1932 her family moved to a large home that included a Country Store on Lake Winnipesaukee in Alton Bay, N.H., a summer resort area, where she and her five siblings grew up. Her three brothers worked in the store and she her two sisters and their mother worked in the ‘Merrymeeting Restaurant’ later added to the building.

Peggy attended Spaulding High School in Rochester, N.H., where she excelled in art, graduating with the second highest grades in her class, and attended Mount Ida College in Newton, MA. She worked as a medical secretary for the CIA in Washington, D.C. and worked and traveled throughout Europe. In 1955 she married Wilbur (Pete) Clyde Peters, an electrical engineer. Her husband’s work took them abroad to Europe and Asia Minor. When her father became ill, Peggy returned home to Alton Bay to care for him.

Peggy and her family spent most of the next few decades in New England, where Pete specialized in communication and radar systems of submarines for the Navy. They had two sons, John Scott Peters (Scott) and James Michael Peters (Mike). When the boys were older Peggy obtained employment with L.L. Bean in Freeport, ME in its Administration Department. Later she was transferred to the main office in Portland where she worked until her pensioned retirement. During this time their son Mike was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia requiring monitoring of his medications, with which Peggy assisted.

Through all these years Peggy maintained the household as a devoted wife and mother who loved to cook, bake, care for her family and who met the challenge of doing it single-handedly when necessitated by her husband’s periods of international travel as consultant for the Navy. Pete and Peggy found a haven on Gardner Lake in East Machias, ME, and built a cottage called “the camp,” where the family spent many wonderful vacations.

As an adult, Scott had a son, Ethan, who, with his mother, Claudette, became and remained until her death a most joyful part of Peggy’s life. In 2005 Peggy’s husband Pete died at home in Auburn and in 2006 their son Scott died of a heart attack. Peggy’s declining health had required multiple operations, many caused by severe osteoporosis. There were long periods of recuperation requiring extensive rehabilitation in nursing homes. In spite of this, she continued to cook and care for her remaining son, Michael, who became more and more difficult and resisted taking his required medications.

Margaret will be lovingly remembered by all of those who knew her for her love and closeness to all her family, her love of baking and her indomitable spirit. She leaves behind her grandson Ethan Peters, Durham, ME, sisters Ann Jordan, Tuftonboro, NH, Patricia Nelson, Bedford, VA, brother Paul McGrath, West Palm Beach, FL, dear friends Claudette Hall, Durham, ME, Gary Bennett, Oxford, ME. Also her brothers were the late Frances J. (Peter) McGrath, Alton, NH and the late David J. McGrath Barrington, NH.