Margaret had many challenges in life. She was severely mentally delayed yet very high functioning. Even though she suffered ill health with seizures throughout her life she bore it with a smile.
She had some amazing skills. She could remember and recite all the names of all the extended family and tell you how many people had the same name. She knew all the birthdays of her 29 nieces and nephews, by heart. She played a peg game called "High Q" where the object of the game was to jump pegs and have as few left over as possible. She could solve the game every time with only one peg remaining in the very center. There was even a variation where all the pegs were red except for one blue peg. She could solve it ending with the one blue peg in the very center.
In an era where people who suffered her disabilities were often institutionalized, Margaret was not. She lived with her widowed mother all of her life, and then was cared for by her loving siblings after her mother's passing.
She had some amazing skills. She could remember and recite all the names of all the extended family and tell you how many people had the same name. She knew all the birthdays of her 29 nieces and nephews, by heart. She played a peg game called "High Q" where the object of the game was to jump pegs and have as few left over as possible. She could solve the game every time with only one peg remaining in the very center. There was even a variation where all the pegs were red except for one blue peg. She could solve it ending with the one blue peg in the very center.
In an era where people who suffered her disabilities were often institutionalized, Margaret was not. She lived with her widowed mother all of her life, and then was cared for by her loving siblings after her mother's passing.
Margaret had many challenges in life. She was severely mentally delayed yet very high functioning. Even though she suffered ill health with seizures throughout her life she bore it with a smile.
She had some amazing skills. She could remember and recite all the names of all the extended family and tell you how many people had the same name. She knew all the birthdays of her 29 nieces and nephews, by heart. She played a peg game called "High Q" where the object of the game was to jump pegs and have as few left over as possible. She could solve the game every time with only one peg remaining in the very center. There was even a variation where all the pegs were red except for one blue peg. She could solve it ending with the one blue peg in the very center.
In an era where people who suffered her disabilities were often institutionalized, Margaret was not. She lived with her widowed mother all of her life, and then was cared for by her loving siblings after her mother's passing.
She had some amazing skills. She could remember and recite all the names of all the extended family and tell you how many people had the same name. She knew all the birthdays of her 29 nieces and nephews, by heart. She played a peg game called "High Q" where the object of the game was to jump pegs and have as few left over as possible. She could solve the game every time with only one peg remaining in the very center. There was even a variation where all the pegs were red except for one blue peg. She could solve it ending with the one blue peg in the very center.
In an era where people who suffered her disabilities were often institutionalized, Margaret was not. She lived with her widowed mother all of her life, and then was cared for by her loving siblings after her mother's passing.
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