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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