Margaret "Margy" Casey Lynnworth

Margaret Jean Casey Lynnworth (Margy) passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2026, at age 78 (four days short of her 79th birthday), in Wellington, Florida following a ten-year challenge with Alzheimer’s Disease. Born February 4, 1947, in Johnson City, New York, she was the youngest of 5 daughters.

Margy was an avid reader, living across the street from the public library, where she read her books so quickly in one day that they had to ask her to wait a day before returning her books so that the library records could catch up to her prolific reading. With her senior year of high school served as a Rotary Exchange Student, in Western Australia (Perth), she returned home to Endicott, New York, when most students had already applied for and been accepted to college. Fortunately, with her exceptional grades, Margy was immediately accepted by phone at Syracuse University (SU). Although no dormitory rooms were available, she enjoyed her first semester freshman year living with her older sister, Anne Fay Trabold, in Camillus NY. She graduated with honors from the Union-Endicott High School in 1965 and began at SU in the fall of 1965.

During her sophomore year at SU, in 1966, on her first day in a class about the philosophy of religion, it was “love at first sight,” when she peered across the aisle and saw what would become her sweetheart, and love of her life, Artie Lynnworth. She completed undergraduate studies in June 1969, earning a bachelor’s degree from the College of Liberal Arts, magna cum laude, majoring in philosophy and German, achieving acceptance into America's most prestigious academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa. Margy and Artie were married on her graduation day from SU, June 7, 1969. She and Artie enjoyed 60 years of loving harmony together.

Margy followed her love of books and reading to obtain a graduate degree, a master’s in library science, in 1971. During their years of marriage, Margy was a passionate volunteer for various Friends of the Library organizations in multiple communities where she and Artie lived during their 30 years in the USA while Artie transferred from one location to another due to his work. Often, she and Artie served on the different community’s library board of directors. When living in Lake City, Florida, the public library nominated her to be Woman of the Year for Columbia County in 1983.

Early in their marriage with hopes of being a mother someday, Margy became a Girl Scout volunteer, offering support and friendship while serving as a role model for neighborhood youngsters. When living in Dallas, Texas, she was a volunteer baby cuddler for premature babies. Although medical reasons prevented Margy from having her own children, years later she and her husband Artie “informally” adopted an adult Chilean musician, Cristian Gutiérrez, who ended up calling her “mom.” Cristian was subsequently married to Antonia Sanchez, and they provided Margy with her “grand children,” Valentina (born May 10, 2013) and Julieta (born January 23, 2017).

With her husband’s work requiring relocation around the USA and world, they moved sixteen times during their nearly 57 years of marriage, including Syracuse, New York, Camillus, New York, Proctorville, Ohio, Lake City, Florida, Wilmington, North Carolina, Houston, Texas, Lewiston, New York (Niagara Falls), Dallas, Texas and Santiago, Chile, South America. In retirement they had homes in Nashua, New Hampshire, Fernandina Beach, Florida, Mirasol, Chile, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and Wellington, Florida.

Margy was an outstanding artist and crafts person, with artwork that had been displayed and purchased at local libraries, and with illustrations published in a technical book about ultrasound, authored by Artie’s brother Larry Lynnworth. For several years she volunteered as a graphics designer, with the sole responsibility to create employee newsletters for her husband’s manufacturing plants across the USA. She was a master in several crafts including quilt making, crocheting, spinning wool, knitting, basket weaving, exceptional portrait art, sculpting, sewing, pen and ink drawings and more.

Part of her artistic ability extended to her love of photography. As a child she enjoyed taking photos, and this creative skill continued through her life, often with the joy of purchasing the latest model of camera. The extensive travel she and her husband did provided an abundant source of photographic subjects to share with others through a first-ever family website she created in 1999 when they lived in South America. That website blossomed into a continuing communications conduit for family and friends, using her many photos combined with those of her husband.

For four decades, Margy was an at-home individual investor. She managed a portfolio of hundreds of stocks, often handling the high-risk environment of options, puts and calls. She was a careful budgeter from the start of their marriage and continued her successful pursuit of financial management throughout her life.

When only 68 years old, she noticed a decline in her cognition and was subsequently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s Disease. However, her love of life and driving spirit allowed her and her husband to continue traveling for another decade around the USA and the world. In 2025 a fall and fractured vertebrae ultimately tipped the scales, and in August of that year she entered full time memory care at their senior community of Wellington Bay. Her last five months in this Lisbet Health Center were, according to her husband, among the best in recent years. She was happy, more verbal and engaged with others, often offering to help those nearby. Her generous life ended with joy and caring for those around her.

Margy was preceded in death by her mother, Anna Moore Casey (1991), her father, Dr. Vincent L. Casey (2002) and by stepmother Adella Lynnworth Casey (2009), plus two older sisters, Anne Fay Trabold (2023) and Kathy Smith (2025). Margy predeceased her two other sisters, Pat Bollinger in Helena, Montana, and Elizabeth (Bibba) Spencer in Owego, New York, and her husband, Artie Lynnworth, in Wellington, Florida.

Consistent with her life-long passion to serve others, her body has been donated to the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine to be used for medical school research and science.

Her warm heart, beautiful smile, childlike spirit and loving nature will be missed by many around the world who have had the pleasure of knowing her. Three words that sum up her life: Loving, gentle, brilliant.

Those wanting to honor her life are encouraged to donate to the Alzheimer’s Foundation, Friends of the Library, and/or Team Randy, a summer camp in Toms River, New Jersey, founded to honor the passing of nephew Randy Lynnworth. This charity was established to help physically challenged teens, plus physically able and/or financially disadvantaged teens.