Margaret E. Furbush

Margaret E. "Peggy" Furbush, SFO, 101 years old of Lebanon Maine died peacefully at home on Oct 11th surrounded by her family.  She was a communicant and active member of St Mary's in Rochester, NH and professed in the Fanciscan Secular Order in 1996 at the Fransiscan Monastery in Kennebunk, Maine. Peggy lived a full life.  She grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ellen and Arthur Noyes.  Before marriage she worked as a secretary in the office of the Secretary of the Navy in Washington, DC during the start of World War II. She enjoyed telling people she had the opportunity to meet and shake hands with Eleanor Roosevelt at a tea party at the White House.  Peg was chosen to be a model for War Bonds posters, however she had to decline as she moved back to Massachusetts to get married in 1942. Peggy and Richard D. Furbush were married in July of 1942 and traveled west to Colorado and Arizona for his training as a pilot for the 14th Army Air Corps/Flying Tigers.  Richard left for India in...