Margaret was born on February 10, 1922 to Sophie and Peter Werkowitch, she grew up in Kansas City, MO, graduated from Manuel Training High School, soon after she met and married John (Jack) Tilton and had five kids. Margaret took a job at Western Auto where she worked for seventeen years. After thirteen years of being a widow and raising her children she met and married Joe Seifner, together they traveled and enjoyed retirement. She said "I've had a busy life and it was wonderful". She went home peacefully surrounded by her children.
She is preceded in death by John J. Tilton, Joe Seifner, and daughter Carol Derringer.
She is survived by her children, Charles (Diana), Kathy (Jerry), Cindy, Francis, seven grandchildren, and seventeen great grandchildren.