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Margaret Marion "peggy" Carey Northway Obituary (1956 - 1977)

Graduation Year Class of 1974
Date of Birth Oct 21, 1956
Date of Passing Jul 28, 1977
About Peggy Carey Northway, 20, Died Thursday at University Hospital in Ann Arbor.

Services will be held Saturday at 4 p.m. at Christ Episcopal Church. Rev. Robert C. Ames and Re. Paul Adkins of Saginaw will officiate and interment will be in Brookside Cemetery.

The former Peggy Carey, was born Oct. 21, 1956 in Detroit. She moved to Charlevoix from Livonia in 1958 and graduated from Charlevoix High School in 1974.

On Aug. 8, 1976, she was married to Thomas Northway in Saginaw. The couple had made their home in Ann Arbor.

Mrs. Northway had completed her freshman year at the University of Michigan School of Nursing when it was discovered she had leukemia. She had been under treatment at the University of Michigan Hospital since that time.

She was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Charlevoix.

Survivors include her widower: her mother, Mrs. Atwood Sheaffer of Charlevoix: her father William Carey, Sr., of Charlevoix; two brothers, William R. Jr., of Cincinnati and Keith V. Of Charlevoix; a sister, Elizabeth M. Carey of Charlevoix; and her maternal grandmother, Mrs. Barbara Dand of Ann Arbor.
Body is at the Winchester Funeral Home where friends may Call.
The family suggests anyone wishing to honor the memory of Peggy Carey Northway, may contribute in her name to the National Leukemia Foundation.

Petoskey News-Review, Friday, July 29, 1977
Margaret Marion "peggy" Carey Northway