Margaret Hagemeyer

Margaret Lena Hagemeyer, "Peggy", 77, of Bowie and Ocean City and formerly of Oxon Hill, died February 7 at her daughter's home in Brunswick, Ga. She was born July 31, 1933, in Alexandria, Va., and graduated from Eastern High School in Washington, D.C. before attending the Washington School for Secretaries. She worked for the Prince George's County Public School System as an Administration Assistant at Kenilworth Elementary, Benjamin Tasker Jr. High School in Bowie, High Point High School in Beltsville, and as an Executive Administrative Assistant at Howard B. Owen Science Center in Greenbelt. She was a member of Christian Community Presbyterian Church in Bowie, where she also served as a Sunday School instructor. Her hobbies included bicycle riding and boating on the Chesapeake Bay, where she enjoyed fishing, crabbing and cruising the back waters. She was also an avid traveler and camper, traveling throughout Europe and South America and camping from Coast to coast. She also enjoyed visiting old cemeteries. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Roy Hagemeyer, whom she married Oct. 5, 1952 and who died Jan. 31, 2008; son, James Roy Hagemeyer Jr.; and grandson, John Vernon Hagemeyer Jr. She is survived by two children, John Vernon Hagemeyer and wife Connie of Coupeville, Wash., and Sherri Lynne Trudeau and husband John of Brunswick, Ga.; four grandchildren, James Roy Hagemeyer III of Brunswick, Ga., Nichole Lee Hagemeyer of Colfax, Wash., Kelly Lynn Hagemeyer of Bowie and Kyall Edward Hagemeyer of Coupeville, Wash.; four great-grandchildren; and sister, Jeanne Elizabeth Loving of Alexandria, Va. Visitation was held on Sunday, February 13 at Beall Funeral Home in Bowie. Internment was on Monday, February 14 at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Suitland.