Died in Richmond, Virginia,she was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the eldest daughter of Robert Roy Stewart and Consuelo Viola Blackman.
Margaret's father died in 1921, and her widowed mother moved the family to Dunnville, Ontario, where they lived until her mother remarried in 1929. Margaret and the family then moved to the United States, where she attended schools in New Jersey, and graduated from New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College, a part of Rutgers University) in 1936 with a bachelors degree in Library Science. She worked briefly in the local library upon graduation, and in 1937 married Irvin John Kendig Ritter, who died in January 1978.
Margaret became a U.S. Citizen and lived in many locations over the years, including Parkersburg, W.Va. and Dordrecht, The Netherlands. She traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe, sailed the Atlantic on the M.S. Statendam and the QE2, visited Russia and Chile, and made frequent trips to Canada to visit her family. She was active in community groups, including church organizations, garden clubs, the American Association of University Women, and PEO.Mother of four children.
The sister of Robert Theodore Stewart, Barbara Stell Costello of Falls Church, Va., and Virginia Stelle Kopetz of Metuchen, N.J.
Margaret's father died in 1921, and her widowed mother moved the family to Dunnville, Ontario, where they lived until her mother remarried in 1929. Margaret and the family then moved to the United States, where she attended schools in New Jersey, and graduated from New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College, a part of Rutgers University) in 1936 with a bachelors degree in Library Science. She worked briefly in the local library upon graduation, and in 1937 married Irvin John Kendig Ritter, who died in January 1978.
Margaret became a U.S. Citizen and lived in many locations over the years, including Parkersburg, W.Va. and Dordrecht, The Netherlands. She traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe, sailed the Atlantic on the M.S. Statendam and the QE2, visited Russia and Chile, and made frequent trips to Canada to visit her family. She was active in community groups, including church organizations, garden clubs, the American Association of University Women, and PEO.Mother of four children.
The sister of Robert Theodore Stewart, Barbara Stell Costello of Falls Church, Va., and Virginia Stelle Kopetz of Metuchen, N.J.
Died in Richmond, Virginia,she was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the eldest daughter of Robert Roy Stewart and Consuelo Viola Blackman.
Margaret's father died in 1921, and her widowed mother moved the family to Dunnville, Ontario, where they lived until her mother remarried in 1929. Margaret and the family then moved to the United States, where she attended schools in New Jersey, and graduated from New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College, a part of Rutgers University) in 1936 with a bachelors degree in Library Science. She worked briefly in the local library upon graduation, and in 1937 married Irvin John Kendig Ritter, who died in January 1978.
Margaret became a U.S. Citizen and lived in many locations over the years, including Parkersburg, W.Va. and Dordrecht, The Netherlands. She traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe, sailed the Atlantic on the M.S. Statendam and the QE2, visited Russia and Chile, and made frequent trips to Canada to visit her family. She was active in community groups, including church organizations, garden clubs, the American Association of University Women, and PEO.Mother of four children.
The sister of Robert Theodore Stewart, Barbara Stell Costello of Falls Church, Va., and Virginia Stelle Kopetz of Metuchen, N.J.
Margaret's father died in 1921, and her widowed mother moved the family to Dunnville, Ontario, where they lived until her mother remarried in 1929. Margaret and the family then moved to the United States, where she attended schools in New Jersey, and graduated from New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College, a part of Rutgers University) in 1936 with a bachelors degree in Library Science. She worked briefly in the local library upon graduation, and in 1937 married Irvin John Kendig Ritter, who died in January 1978.
Margaret became a U.S. Citizen and lived in many locations over the years, including Parkersburg, W.Va. and Dordrecht, The Netherlands. She traveled extensively in the U.S. and Europe, sailed the Atlantic on the M.S. Statendam and the QE2, visited Russia and Chile, and made frequent trips to Canada to visit her family. She was active in community groups, including church organizations, garden clubs, the American Association of University Women, and PEO.Mother of four children.
The sister of Robert Theodore Stewart, Barbara Stell Costello of Falls Church, Va., and Virginia Stelle Kopetz of Metuchen, N.J.
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