Margaret B. (Peg) Scott lived a full life, with a strong determination to remain young and active until the end. On Oct. 27, 2021, she finally yielded to the inevitability of growing old and passed on at the age of 94. Her desire to die peacefully in her own home surrounded by her family was granted.
She is survived by her brother Robert Bailey (Beth Schenck Bailey); her daughters, Meredith Brown, Cindy Herndon (Fred Herndon), and Susan Reghi Kelsey (Ralph Kelsey); grandchildren, Jennifer Brown Chim (Kahn Chim), Meg Herndon (Marshall Gagne), Pam Herndon, and Nathaniel Herndon (Lauren Stevens Herndon), Danielle Reghi (Abe Hawkins) and Malia Reghi. She also leaves seven great-grandchildren, Isabella, Addison and Emma Chim, Thomas, Simon and Clare Gagne, and Awa Reghi.
Peg grew up in Milford and attended college at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana. It was there that she met Richard Scott, also of New Jersey. They were married on the day of the “great blizzard,” Dec. 27, 1947, and settled in Dick’s hometown of Moorestown. They moved to the Rumson/Fair Haven area in 1964 where they spent the remainder of their lives.
Peg enjoyed golf, tennis and sailing and was a source of fun and laughter to those who enjoyed these activities with her. She was active as a Girl Scout leader and enjoyed her employment at EpiCurious in Fair Haven and Rumson Roulette in Rumson. She was best known to her children, though, as a mother who loved them to the end and who, time and again, would stretch the limits of her comfort zone in order to share their lives and the lives of her grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. the Rumson Presbyterian Church Saturday, Nov. 6. Those unable to attend in person will be able to access a livestream at rumsonpresbyterian.org (upcoming services tab or worship tab), or may find the service on the website at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to cleanoceanaction.org (Rally for the 2 Rivers), or NTBG.org (National Tropical Botanical Gardens, Hawaii).
Thompson Memorial Home, Red Bank, has been entrusted with the arrangements.
The article originally appeared in the November 4 – 10, 2021 print edition of The Two River Times.
