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Margaret Mary Conaway
Posted 6/2/08
Margaret Mary Conaway, 94 SEAFORD - Margaret Mary Conaway passed away Saturday, May 31, 2008, at Genesis Elder Care in Seaford. She was 94. Margaret was born on April 17, 1914, in Wilmington, the …
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Margaret Mary Conaway
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Margaret Mary Conaway, 94
SEAFORD - Margaret Mary Conaway passed away Saturday, May 31, 2008, at Genesis Elder Care in Seaford. She was 94.
Margaret was born on April 17, 1914, in Wilmington, the daughter of the late Charles A. Dougherty and Mary S. Kooch.
She married her late husband, Joseph C. Conaway, in 1935.
Margaret graduated from St. Patrick's Commercial High School in Wilmington in 1929 and was employed with Woolworth Five and Ten in Wilmington.
After marrying in 1935, Margaret remained a stay-at-home mother.
In 1974 she and her husband moved to Bridgeville.
She was an active member of the Greenwood CHEER Center and the Bridgeville Fire Co.'s Ladies' Auxiliary.
Margaret was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Seaford.
She was preceded in death by five brothers and one sister.
She is survived by her only son, Joseph T. Conaway and his wife Joann of Bridgeville; four grandchildren, Joanne T. Collison and husband R. Michael of Bridgeville, Jenyfer T. Conaway of Winnsboro, S.C., Jill T. Lewandowski and husband Edward A. of Bridgeville and Warrant Officer I Joseph T. Conaway II and wife Connie Faye of Hampton, Ga.; seven great-granddaughters, Amanda, Lindsey and Chelsea Collison, Kyrra and Kori Lewandowski, and Samantha and Kayleigh Conaway; three sisters-in-law, Josephine Sharp, Dorothy Fenimore, and Ann Dougherty; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Honorary pallbearers will be Joseph T. Conaway II, Joseph F. Battaglia and David Bleiler.
Pallbears will be R. Michael Collison, Edward A. Lewandowski, The Honorable Tony de Luca, Steve Deery, Bayard Sharp and Jim Cooper.
Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Tuesday in the Parsell Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Hardesty Chapel, 202 Laws St., Bridgeville.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Stein Highway, Seaford.
Interment will follow at the Bridgeville Cemetery in Bridgeville.
Instead of flowers, contributions may be made to Our Lady of Lourdes Church Building Fund, 532 Stein Highway, Seaford, DE, 19973; or to the Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Co.Ladies' Auxiliary, 421 S. Main St., Bridgeville, DE 19933.
