HAVERHILL: Margaret E. "Peggy" (Colby) Cole, 86, died Thursday, May 6, 2010. She was the wife of the late Seaver B. Cole who died in 1990.
Born in Haverhill on October 13, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Horace and Lillian (Marble) Colby. A lifelong resident of Haverhill, she was a graduate of St. James High School class of 1941 and a graduate of Essex Agricultural School.
Peggy was employed as secretary for the Family Bank, now Banknorth in Haverhill for seventeen years before her retirement in 1986.
She was a communicant of St. John the Baptist Church, a former member of the St. Rita's Catholic Church Women's Club and was a chairperson at Bradford Village Condominiums for several years. Peggy will be remembered by all who knew her as a very special, caring and generous person.
She is survived by her cousins, John and Deborah Chase of New York City, David Gallahue of CT., her friends Jacqueline LeBlanc of Haverhill, Grace Bitomski of Bradford, and her special friend and caregiver of twenty years who was by her side until the end, June M. Dinsmore of Bradford.
Her funeral Mass will be celebrated on Tuesday in the St. John the Baptist Church, Haverhill at 10:00 a.m. Visiting hours will be held on Monday in the Linnehan-Grondin Funeral Home, 52 Salem Street, Bradford from 4-7 p.m. Relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105-1942 or to St. John the Baptist Church, 114 Lincoln Ave., Haverhill, MA 01830. Interment will be held in St. James Cemetery, Haverhill.