MARGARET K. TERRY
OBITUARY
Margaret Elizabeth King Terry of Nantucket died Saturday, January 12, 2008 at Our Island Home. She was 91.

Peg was born in Concord, N.C. on February 24, 1916. She was the oldest child of Dr. Richard Morrison King and Miriam D. King. She attended Concord schools, was a member of the National Honor Society and graduated in 1932. She graduated in 1936 from Randolph Macon Women's College and was admitted to the Protestant Episcopal Hospital School of Nursing in Philadelphia, Penn., where her father had completed his medical residency. In 1939 she joined the American Red Cross Nursing Corps. In the fall 1941 she came to Nantucket to serve on the Cottage Hospital Staff. Nov. 10, Armistice Day was her first day of duty. During this time, she met and married Henry Riddell Terry on April 6, 1942. Together they raised five children. As well as being a mother, she was an avid gardener and maintained her own vegetable garden each year. She taught Sunday school at St. Paul's Episcopal Church for 25 years. She helped to organize Planned Playtime, one of Nantucket's first pre school programs

In 1963, Peg went to teach for six weeks at Nantucket High School and stayed for 17 years. She taught Nantucket History, Latin, Biology and finally English. During the summers of 1968, '69 and '70 she attended Tuft's University.She received her Master's degree in the teaching of English there. Peg was yearbook advisor during her years of teaching. She retired from teaching in June 1980.

Peg returned to her native Concord in the fall of 1980 to live in the winters. Each summer she returned to Nantucket. She also loved to travel to and went to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Germany, Russia and Scotland. Peg was a life member of DAR, NHA, a member of United Daughters of the Confederacy and a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. In February 2003 she moved back to Nantucket.

She was predeceased by her husband, Henry Riddell Terry, daughter Virginia Anne Hart, and her brother Richard Morrison King, Jr.

She is survived by her children and their spouses, Vince and Betsy Mann, Henry and Anne Terry, Mike and Meg Connolly, Mary Terry and Lee Hart; by grandchildren Lisa Hart, Julie Hart, Jennifer Harlacher, John Mann and Kiley Mann. She has three great grandsons. Her sister, Dr. Elizabeth King of South Carolina, also survives her.

A memorial service will be held on Nantucket in June.

Donations may be made to the Margaret and Henry Terry Scholarship c/o Nantucket High School, The Homestead or Our Island Home. I