Margaret Ellen (Peg) Peery died January 21 at the Manor Care Nursing Home in West Reading, PA.

Peg was born in Wareham on February 25, 1926, to Doris (Pierce) and Raymond Morse. She grew up in West Wareham. Her father was a cranberry farmer and later founded R.F. Morse & Son, an agricultural supply company. Her mother assisted in the business, taught Sunday school and also played the organ.

After graduating from Boston University with a degree in music, Peg married Russell Peery in 1950, and shortly after that moved to Alfred, Maine, where he served as a minister in the Alfred Parish Church. They later moved to Manchester and then Middletown, Connecticut, before divorcing in 1969.

She then moved to Marion and subsequently lived in many places, including Antrim and Deering, New Hampshire, and Rockland and Brunswick, Maine. But her spiritual home was always in Port Clyde, Maine, at the family summer cottage.

Peg was passionate about music. She worked as an organist for several different churches, and in spite of being fairly short, had an incredible command of the foot pedals while managing two manuals and frequent stop changes. She also served as a music director and accompanist for many school and community musicals, taught music in the Wareham school system and had many private students.

Peg loved nature and gardening. Her years in Maine provided her with opportunities to collect flowers for dried arrangements, often interspersed with ocean-washed stones and beach glass. She also became an expert in identifying wildflowers.

In 2005, Peg moved to Pennsylvania, where she continued her love of nature with walking every day. However, within a few months she became paralyzed from the waist down. She moved to Manor Care at that time, where she was always treated with dignity and loving care. In spite of her new limitation, she remained cheerful and engaging. After a parlor organ was donated to the social room, she would frequently get wheeled down there to entertain residents and staff with classical and popular music. Her years at Manor Care were happy, and she particularly appreciated the company of her roommate Nadine Dalton.

Peg is survived by her brother Paul Morse and his wife Elaine, of Marion, and Vero Beach, Florida; her sister, Christine Peavy, and her husband Robert, of Flagler Beach, Florida; her son, Gordon Peery, and his wife, Susan, of Nelson, New Hampshire; and her daughter, Wildflower Robinson, and her husband, Shadow, of Butte, Montana.

She also leaves 8 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren, several nieces and a nephew.

The family will gather on the coast of Maine this summer to celebrate her life.