Peggy A Maynard

Born on July 16, 1932 in Big Island, Virginia, Peggy was the first child of Andrew and Thelma Staton. She graduated from Baltimore’s Patterson Park High School in 1951 and spent much of her adult life in Maryland before settling in Florida in her retirement.

Peggy (Peg, Mom, Nana, Pint-sized Peg, Miss Peggy, Me-maw, Perky Peg, Nana-Banana…) will be remembered as a caring and supportive wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and friend. She was a full-service homemaker: decorator (custom drapes in every home), seamstress (McCall’s jumpers!), and maker of the world’s best fried chicken. She was fashionable and stylish, a collector of shoes and recipes, and an absolute “hot rollers and Aqua Net” virtuoso. She enjoyed group lunches, couples’ card-games, and family get-togethers, and was an active member of several social clubs. She co-hosted many legendary neighborhood parties (they came for the whiskey sours; they stayed for the Swedish meatballs) and danced into the early hours at every grandchild’s wedding. She put ice in her beer (and wine, and milk!) and we could always count on her bookend telephone catchphrases (“hello, hello,” and “talk mitch you later!”). She was stoic and dignified as she approached death, uncomplaining even as her body gave her every reason to recite a laundry list. Peg was a doll. She loved to laugh, loved to converse, loved to putter, loved all the people in her life. And we loved her. “Everyone loved Peggy.” A fitting epitaph for a life so fully well-lived.

Peggy is survived by her children Carol (Ray) Wahlne, Sharon (David) Argento, Judy (John) Cassidy, and Mike (Ann) Gibson; her sister Connie Mosko; her grandchildren Leslie Bechtel, Nick Argento, Michael Wahlne, Kate Lang, Christine Bywater, Rachel Faber, Matthew Wynn, Calvin Gibson, Cooper Gibson, and Maddy Gibson; great-grandchildren Nicky, Lexi, Quinn, Benjamin, Everett, Cam, Carson, Rowan and Paige; and a host of nieces and nephews. She is predeceased by her parents Andrew and Thelma Staton; her first husband Jack Gibson; her second husband Richard Maynard; her daughter Susan Wynn; and her grandson Patrick Cassidy.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to Gilchrist, 11311 McCormick Rd, Ste 350, Hunt Valley, MD 21031 or online at gilchristcares.org/donation.