Margaret P. Cartmell

Margaret (Peggy) Prideaux Cartmell, age 95, of Hockessin, DE died on Monday, September 9, 2019.
Born 1923, Margaret was a graduate of Tarrytown High School and Mount Holyoke College (1945).
Wife of Rev. John Cartmell, she supported his ministry and was active in the churches he served – the Presbyterian Church in Bedford NY., the Second Presbyterian Church in St. Louis MO and the Westminster Presbyterian Church in Wilmington DE. Peggy was a social worker by training and a life-long advocate for justice for the poor and disadvantaged. With her son, James, she served on the Delaware Disability Council and testified before Congress. A past President of the Mount Holyoke Club in Wilmington, she sang the Alma Mater with gusto all her life. Peggy was a visionary who worked in real estate in the 1980’s where she imagined and assembled the land that became the Brandywine Park Condominiums. She was a devoted member of Westminster Presbyterian Church for 47 years, and served as a deacon. She will be long-remembered for her generous heart, her style, her courage in adversity and her advocacy for others.
She is survived by her children: Susan (Rev. Dr.) and her wife Peggy O’Connor of Harwich MA, Sybil (Dr.) and her husband Kent Smith of Wilmington, DE, and James of Newark, DE; her grandchildren: Jonathan McDonald Ladd (Nancy), Elizabeth Carrier-Ladd (Seth), Sarah Gillio (Paul) and Rory Smith.; and her great-grandchildren: Ruth, Josiah, Miriam, Theodore, Elias, Delilah & Gabriel.
Her Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 10 a.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Pennsylvania Ave & Rodney St., Wilmington, DE 19806.
Memorial gifts may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church 1502 W. 13th Street. Wilmington or Bancroft 1122 Caldwell Rd Cherry Hill NJ