{"id":1110,"date":"2015-06-23T06:12:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2015-06-23T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T11:12:23","slug":"marguerite-peggy-newton-smith-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2015\/06\/23\/marguerite-peggy-newton-smith-32\/","title":{"rendered":"Marguerite &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Newton Smith &#8217;32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2015\/06\/M-Newton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1111\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/files\/2015\/06\/M-Newton.jpg\" alt=\"M Newton\" width=\"91\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a>Marguerite \u201cPeggy\u201d Newton Smith, 99 of Torch Lake, Antrim County, passed away on Mar. 16, 2015 at St. Anne\u2019s Mead Senior Care Community in Southfield.<\/p>\n<p>Marguerite was born July 25, 1915 in Pittsfield, MA, the daughter of Edward G. and Eugenia (Peterson) Newton.<\/p>\n<p>She graduated from Northampton School for Girls in 1932 and Brenau College in Gainesville, GA with a bachelor\u2019s degree in English. Marguerite worked as a secretary for G.E. and Reader\u2019s Digest. She also was a Red Cross Staff Assistant stationed in Tunis, North Africa, during WWII.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, 1945 in Pittsfield, MA, she married Dr. George E. Smith. After many years of living in Bloomfield Township, they moved to Torch Lake in 1979. Marguerite became an active member of the Central Lake Lioness Club and enjoyed the many friends she met.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving Marguerite are her children Jon Smith of Royal Oak, Steven (Jeanne) Smith of Royal Oak, Sharon (Dennis) Blom of Edwardsville, IL, Nancy Baker of Salt Lake City, UT, 7 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband George in 2009, her daughter Carol Smith in 1989, and brothers John and Edward G. Newton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marguerite \u201cPeggy\u201d Newton Smith, 99 of Torch Lake, Antrim County, passed away on Mar. 16, 2015 at St. Anne\u2019s Mead Senior Care Community in Southfield. Marguerite was born July 25, 1915 in Pittsfield, MA, the daughter of Edward G. and Eugenia (Peterson) Newton. She graduated from Northampton School for Girls in 1932 and Brenau College &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/2015\/06\/23\/marguerite-peggy-newton-smith-32\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marguerite &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Newton Smith &#8217;32<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[316,317,72],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1930s","tag-class-of-1932","tag-marguerite-newton-smith","tag-northampton-school-for-girls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/obituaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}