Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lawler, Margaret L. December 25, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 February 28, 2023, 3:15 pm Virginian-Pilot December 28, 2008 NORFOLK - Margaret Long Lawler, 86, ended another chapter in her life this Christmas evening, Dec. 25, 2008, as she left this world. She was in the family room that she loved, with a fire going in the fireplace and her family close by. For the last several years, Mom had been dueling with Alzheimer’s disease. Thankfully, she is free from that now. Mom grew up in Irvington, in the Northern Neck of Virginia, and was a member of the Irvington Methodist Church. Growing up, she spent her free time sailing her little boat in the Rappahannock River and traipsing through the woods with her brother, William, and her well-loved beagles. After graduating from Mary Washington College, she worked in New York City as a research assistant for the foreign affairs radio commentator, H.V. Kaltenborn and, during the War years, in Washington, D C., at the Library of Congress. After moving to Norfolk, she was employed at the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association Law Library where she met and eventually married a dashing, young lawyer named Joseph Lawler. She later worked at Norfolk Public
Library and the Upper School Library at Norfolk Academy. Mom loved gardening, traveling, camping, fishing, cooking,
sailing, tennis and snow. She loved books and reading, particularly history and the poetry of Edgar Allen Poe. She loved the English countryside, where she felt she had found her home. She loved dogs, especially beagles, and her favorite word was “puppy.” What she loved most, I think, was having fun with her family. Dad died in 1988, and I know Mom has thought of him every day since then. She was also predeceased by her eldest daughter, Katherine Ingram and her youngest, Ann Lawler. We who are left are William Lawler of Edgewater, Md., Patricia Lawler, Fenton Shugrue and husband Paul, all of Norfolk; grandsons, William and Jesse Ingram and Joseph and Michael Shugrue; and her granddog, Banjo. She is also survived by sisters-in-law, Karla Lawler and Margie Long and well-loved nieces and nephews and their children. We would like to thank everyone who helped us so much during Mom’s Alzheimer’s years, but especially her primary caregivers, Sheila Banks, Carolyn Guilford and Linda Scott. Each used her clinical expertise to keep Mom healthy and comfortable, but more importantly, each showed Mom the love, respect and kindness usually reserved for one’s own family. Ladies, we are deeply grateful for your involvement and will miss your presence in Mom’s household. Friends and family are invited to join us for a gathering at St. Mary’s Cemetery at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, and at the Lawler home afterwards. If you’re thinking of sending flowers, please consider making a memorial donation to the Alzheimer’s Association or the Norfolk SPCA and plant something in the garden. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel, is handling arrangements. Online condolences may be made to the family through www.hdoliver.com. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/l/lawler6765nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb