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Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shoemaker, Margaret Van Cise August 30, 2007
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The Albany Herald - Obituaries
Margaret Van Cise Shoemaker 

ALBANY — Margaret (Peg) Van Cise Shoemaker on Saturday, September 1, 2007 
Margaret (Peg) Van Cise Shoemaker passed away at the residence of her sister 
Ruth Van Cise Sapp. 

The funeral service will be Saturday, September 8, 2007 11:00 AM at First 
United Methodist Church Walden Chapel. The Rev. Jim Coleman, the Rev. Tammy 
Coleman and Dr. Donald M. Kea will officiate. The family will receive friends 
following the service in the church parlor. 

Peg was born in Summit, New Jersey, on September 8, 1916. In 1919 her family 
moved to Albany, Georgia. Peg graduated from Albany High School in 1933 and 
then attended Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville and graduated in 
1937 with a BS degree in Education. She received her AB degree in Library 
Science from Emory University in Atlanta. Peg went to New York for law library 
course work and afterward worked at the University of Virginia Law Library. It 
was there that she met and married Richard Shoemaker. They settled in Winston 
Salem, North Carolina, where they both worked at Wake Forrest University. On 
their retirement in 1982 Peg and Dick moved to Albany. 

Peg didn’t waste any time when she got to Albany. She volunteered at Sherwood 
Elementary School Library and also began teaching various craft classes for the 
Southwest Georgia Council on Aging (SOWEGA). She was the librarian for the 
Albany Museum of Art and was the Volunteer of the Year for the Museum in 1992. 
She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, the Discussion Sunday 
School Class, and UMW Circle 10. 

Peg was preceded in death by her parents, William and Winifred Van Cise, her 
brother William (Billy) Van Cise, her husband Dick, and her sister Edith 
Knowles . Peg is survived by her twin sisters Ruth Van Cise Sapp and Janet Van 
Cise Holaday. She will also be greatly missed by her numerous nieces, nephews, 
great nieces and nephews, and great-great nieces and nephews. 

In lieu of flowers, anyone wishing to give a memorial in Peg’s name may do so 
to the First United Methodist Church or the SOWEGA Council on Aging. 

Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors 
Albany 229/883-4152 



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