An epitaph to the great Margaret Collier

It is with a sad heart that we announce the passing of our society's matriarch, Mrs. Margaret Collier. Mrs. Collier died after a long and notable life. Her careers included social worker, school teacher and mother. She is remembered by our society as its co-founder, our first president, life-time society trustee and mother hen, as well as initiator of the National Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District. During the years that I knew her, she had three great loves: her family, her church, and this society.

Margaret was born in 1926 in Massachusetts. As a young...