Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Notice of Death: Margaret "Peggy" Gaetz

(Wife of The Rev. Nelson W. Gaetz) 

Upstate New York Synod, ELCA
June 23, 2015

Thanks be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
1 Cor. 15:57

We give thanks for the life of Margaret "Peggy" Gaetz who entered life eternal on Monday, June 22, 2015.

 

Peggy is survived by her husband of 47 years, The Rev. Nelson W. Gaetz (Retired/Central Crossroads Conference), three children, Kathryn (Peter) Woods, Christine (Jefferson) Bauer and Robert and nine grandchildren.

 

A 1966 graduate of Hartwick College in Oneonta, Peggy was a licensed Medical Technologist.  She worked in several hospitals in New York  City, University Hospital of Syracuse, The American Red Cross of Syracuse and the Syracuse Community Health Center.

 

She was a member of Atonement Lutheran Church of Syracuse where she sang in the choir for many years. Formerly a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, in Baldwinsville, she was instrumental in the establishment of the St. Mark's Nursery School serving as its treasurer for several years.

 

Friends may call at Atonement Lutheran Church, 116 West Glen Ave., Syracuse, NY from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 25th with funeral service to follow at 4:00 p.m.

 

Flowers gratefully declined.  Memorial donations may be made to The Atonement Lutheran Church Endowment Fund or The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation at

Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation 

 

To express sympathy, please visit Ballweg & Lunsford Funeral Homes

 

 

Rest eternal grant her, O Lord and let light perpetual shine upon her.
ELW p. 284
  
    In Christ,
 
    Rev. John S. Macholz, Bishop

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Katherine Neugent, Executive Assistant to the Bishop
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