Margaret Rose Carns

Garden City, NY peacefully passed away.

Margaret was born in Nemacolin, PA until she graduated high school and then moved to the city of Pittsburgh where she attended Robert Morris Business School for Accounting. Margaret loved accounting and was her career for most of her life until retirement in Murrysville, PA. Margaret, husband Jack, along with another person were instrumental in starting the Murrysville Senior Center and was involved until she moved up to Garden City, NY to be with her daughter after her husband passed. Once there, she found the senior centers were for males only and was instrumental in starting a coed senior center in Garden City. She immediately became a member of the Garden City Community Church and volunteered in the Church Auxiliary. She joined the NYU Winthrop University Hospital auxiliary and worked in the Gift Shop every Thursday. Her and a group of friends all joined a travel group exploring the NY tri-state area. Margaret worked on weekends for the Dougall Fraser Real Estate office, now Daniel Gayle, in Garden City until she moved to Williamsburg, VA at the age of 82.

Upon moving to Williamsburg, she joined the Williamsburg Presbyterian Church and volunteered for Grove Christian Outreach, and for Colonial Williamsburg, working in the Goodwin Building.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Jack Carns; brother, Michael and three sisters, Ann Elick, Mary Randolph and Helen Javorsky. She leaves behind a daughter, Debra Weber and son-in-law Robert Weber; a grandson, the apple of her eye, Matthew Weber and a niece, Patricia Ogden and her husband Rick; and a number of loving nieces and nephews.

A visitation will be held on Wednesday, June 11, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM at Nelsen Funeral Home, Williamsburg, VA with a service to follow at 1:30 PM, and a graveside service for family.

In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations in Margaret's memory be made to Hospice House of Williamsburg, 4445 Powhatan Parkway, Williamsburg, VA (williamsburghospice.org) 757-253-1220.