Margaret (Margie) Stewart Moss, 96, died on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at Willow Valley, where she lived for 18 years.
She was born in Auburn, NY, on April 30, 1922, the daughter of Weir and Margaret Penney Stewart.
She graduated from Shipley School in 1938 and from Smith College in 1942.
Margie married John Hall Moss in 1942 and they moved to Lancaster County in 1948. John, who was Chairman of the Geology Department at Franklin & Marshall College, died in 1977.
Margie's six children, Her grandchildren, Her step-grandchildren. She had six great-grandchildren.
Margie was the oldest of four children. Her brothers, Weir Stewart, Jr. and Thomas Penney Stewart, and her sister, Mary Stewart Swett, all died before she did.
For many years, Margie was active in the community, serving as a board member of the following organizations: Lancaster Day Nursery, League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, YWCA,
Family and Children's Service, United Way of Lancaster County, Independent Eye Theater, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Millersville State College, and Franklin & Marshall College.
In 1998, she was honorary co-chair of the Heritage Crossroads Campaign for Historic Preservation Trust.
For eleven years, beginning in 1977, Margie was on the staff of the United Way of Lancaster County.
She worked primarily with volunteers who evaluated the services of affiliated agencies and determined how community contributions could best be allocated.
Roundup Day Camp was held at the Mosses' family farm on Lampeter Road for ten years, in the fifties and sixties.
This lively sports camp involved hundreds of children, and friendships with their parents were a happy byproduct.
Margie was an inveterate traveler. In early days she spent various summers in Wyoming and Montana where John did geological field work.
Later she came to know other parts of the country through visits to her far flung family.
National Parks were frequent destinations, and she visited countless foreign countries.
She loved going to the theater, art museums, concerts and the opera, both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she spent three and a half months on a ship that sailed around the world.
The "Semester at Sea" included 450 undergraduate students, 30 faculty members, and 30 senior passengers, of whom she was one.
Though fund raising was not one of Margie's favorite activities, she recognized the importance of community.
Among her favorite causes were: The Lancaster County Conservancy, 117 S. West End Ave., Lancaster, PA, Franklin & Marshall College, Box 3003, Lancaster, PA, and the United Way of Lancaster County, 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster, PA.
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She was born in Auburn, NY, on April 30, 1922, the daughter of Weir and Margaret Penney Stewart.
She graduated from Shipley School in 1938 and from Smith College in 1942.
Margie married John Hall Moss in 1942 and they moved to Lancaster County in 1948. John, who was Chairman of the Geology Department at Franklin & Marshall College, died in 1977.
Margie's six children, Her grandchildren, Her step-grandchildren. She had six great-grandchildren.
Margie was the oldest of four children. Her brothers, Weir Stewart, Jr. and Thomas Penney Stewart, and her sister, Mary Stewart Swett, all died before she did.
For many years, Margie was active in the community, serving as a board member of the following organizations: Lancaster Day Nursery, League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, YWCA,
Family and Children's Service, United Way of Lancaster County, Independent Eye Theater, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Millersville State College, and Franklin & Marshall College.
In 1998, she was honorary co-chair of the Heritage Crossroads Campaign for Historic Preservation Trust.
For eleven years, beginning in 1977, Margie was on the staff of the United Way of Lancaster County.
She worked primarily with volunteers who evaluated the services of affiliated agencies and determined how community contributions could best be allocated.
Roundup Day Camp was held at the Mosses' family farm on Lampeter Road for ten years, in the fifties and sixties.
This lively sports camp involved hundreds of children, and friendships with their parents were a happy byproduct.
Margie was an inveterate traveler. In early days she spent various summers in Wyoming and Montana where John did geological field work.
Later she came to know other parts of the country through visits to her far flung family.
National Parks were frequent destinations, and she visited countless foreign countries.
She loved going to the theater, art museums, concerts and the opera, both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she spent three and a half months on a ship that sailed around the world.
The "Semester at Sea" included 450 undergraduate students, 30 faculty members, and 30 senior passengers, of whom she was one.
Though fund raising was not one of Margie's favorite activities, she recognized the importance of community.
Among her favorite causes were: The Lancaster County Conservancy, 117 S. West End Ave., Lancaster, PA, Franklin & Marshall College, Box 3003, Lancaster, PA, and the United Way of Lancaster County, 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster, PA.
LNP 9/26/2018
Margaret (Margie) Stewart Moss, 96, died on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at Willow Valley, where she lived for 18 years.
She was born in Auburn, NY, on April 30, 1922, the daughter of Weir and Margaret Penney Stewart.
She graduated from Shipley School in 1938 and from Smith College in 1942.
Margie married John Hall Moss in 1942 and they moved to Lancaster County in 1948. John, who was Chairman of the Geology Department at Franklin & Marshall College, died in 1977.
Margie's six children, Her grandchildren, Her step-grandchildren. She had six great-grandchildren.
Margie was the oldest of four children. Her brothers, Weir Stewart, Jr. and Thomas Penney Stewart, and her sister, Mary Stewart Swett, all died before she did.
For many years, Margie was active in the community, serving as a board member of the following organizations: Lancaster Day Nursery, League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, YWCA,
Family and Children's Service, United Way of Lancaster County, Independent Eye Theater, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Millersville State College, and Franklin & Marshall College.
In 1998, she was honorary co-chair of the Heritage Crossroads Campaign for Historic Preservation Trust.
For eleven years, beginning in 1977, Margie was on the staff of the United Way of Lancaster County.
She worked primarily with volunteers who evaluated the services of affiliated agencies and determined how community contributions could best be allocated.
Roundup Day Camp was held at the Mosses' family farm on Lampeter Road for ten years, in the fifties and sixties.
This lively sports camp involved hundreds of children, and friendships with their parents were a happy byproduct.
Margie was an inveterate traveler. In early days she spent various summers in Wyoming and Montana where John did geological field work.
Later she came to know other parts of the country through visits to her far flung family.
National Parks were frequent destinations, and she visited countless foreign countries.
She loved going to the theater, art museums, concerts and the opera, both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she spent three and a half months on a ship that sailed around the world.
The "Semester at Sea" included 450 undergraduate students, 30 faculty members, and 30 senior passengers, of whom she was one.
Though fund raising was not one of Margie's favorite activities, she recognized the importance of community.
Among her favorite causes were: The Lancaster County Conservancy, 117 S. West End Ave., Lancaster, PA, Franklin & Marshall College, Box 3003, Lancaster, PA, and the United Way of Lancaster County, 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster, PA.
LNP 9/26/2018
She was born in Auburn, NY, on April 30, 1922, the daughter of Weir and Margaret Penney Stewart.
She graduated from Shipley School in 1938 and from Smith College in 1942.
Margie married John Hall Moss in 1942 and they moved to Lancaster County in 1948. John, who was Chairman of the Geology Department at Franklin & Marshall College, died in 1977.
Margie's six children, Her grandchildren, Her step-grandchildren. She had six great-grandchildren.
Margie was the oldest of four children. Her brothers, Weir Stewart, Jr. and Thomas Penney Stewart, and her sister, Mary Stewart Swett, all died before she did.
For many years, Margie was active in the community, serving as a board member of the following organizations: Lancaster Day Nursery, League of Women Voters, Planned Parenthood, YWCA,
Family and Children's Service, United Way of Lancaster County, Independent Eye Theater, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Millersville State College, and Franklin & Marshall College.
In 1998, she was honorary co-chair of the Heritage Crossroads Campaign for Historic Preservation Trust.
For eleven years, beginning in 1977, Margie was on the staff of the United Way of Lancaster County.
She worked primarily with volunteers who evaluated the services of affiliated agencies and determined how community contributions could best be allocated.
Roundup Day Camp was held at the Mosses' family farm on Lampeter Road for ten years, in the fifties and sixties.
This lively sports camp involved hundreds of children, and friendships with their parents were a happy byproduct.
Margie was an inveterate traveler. In early days she spent various summers in Wyoming and Montana where John did geological field work.
Later she came to know other parts of the country through visits to her far flung family.
National Parks were frequent destinations, and she visited countless foreign countries.
She loved going to the theater, art museums, concerts and the opera, both in this country and abroad. In 1994 she spent three and a half months on a ship that sailed around the world.
The "Semester at Sea" included 450 undergraduate students, 30 faculty members, and 30 senior passengers, of whom she was one.
Though fund raising was not one of Margie's favorite activities, she recognized the importance of community.
Among her favorite causes were: The Lancaster County Conservancy, 117 S. West End Ave., Lancaster, PA, Franklin & Marshall College, Box 3003, Lancaster, PA, and the United Way of Lancaster County, 630 Janet Avenue, Lancaster, PA.
LNP 9/26/2018
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