Margaret Robins Jeffrey

Margaret “Peggy” Robins Jeffrey died peacefully at her residence in Williamsburg, VA at the age of 95 on Thursday, February 11, 2021. She was born on September 12, 1925 in Columbus, Ohio as the fifth and final child of Florence Kaufman Robins and Orrin Asbury Robins Sr. She is predeceased by her husband, Joseph D. Jeffrey, Sr.; her brothers, Orrin A. Robins, Jr., and John “Jack” Robins; along with her sisters, Dorothy Robins Newcomb, and Ruth Robins Miles.

When she was three, the family moved to Philadelphia, PA where she grew up and graduated from Germantown High School. During WWII, she was in the Secretarial Pool for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, where she met her future husband, Lt. Joseph Donald Jeffrey. They were married in Wilmington, DE after the war on July 29, 1946. They moved to Nutley, NJ in 1951 where, after giving birth she worked as a bookkeeper for Beck’s TV for 17 years before retiring to Lake Park, Florida in 1974. She subsequently resided in Boynton Beach, FL and St. Augustine FL before moving to Williamsburg, VA in 2011. Her main interests were doing genealogical research, travelling, and keeping current with her extended family.

She is survived by her son, Joseph D. Jeffrey (Jr.) (Karen) of Williamsburg, VA; and grandchildren, James A. Jeffrey of Richmond, VA and Meredith D. Jeffrey of Denver, CO; along with four nieces and three nephews.

Her cremains will be interred at Royal Palm Memorial Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL alongside her husband, Joseph D. Jeffrey, Sr.; mother-in-law, Rose L. Giuffre; and father-in law, John M. Giuffre at a future date.