Margaret Magoun Rothrauff, of Acton, MA, known best as Peggy, died on May 29, 2017 at Emerson Hospital in Concord, MA.
Born on December 28, 1932 in Cambridge to Francis Peabody Magoun Jr., and Margaret Boyden Magoun, Peggy was raised there alongside her two older brothers and younger sister.
Peggy attended the Shady Hill School, Beaver Country Day, Colby-Sawyer Jr. College and Katharine Gibbs School. After college, she worked at Harvard Law School where she met her husband of 46 years, Guido Anthony Rothrauff, Jr. Together, they started their family in Cleveland, OH but soon returned to the Boston area and raised four daughters in Wellesley and Weston MA. With grown children, Peggy returned to work outside the home at the Meadowbrook School in Weston and the Brimmer & May School in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Peggy had many friends and dozens of adoring family members. Those who worked with her, lived nearby, or spent any time at her house loved Peggy for her warmth, her wonderful sense of humor, her ability to take anything in stride, and her appreciation of a good party. She will be missed deeply by those friends and by her family that survives her: her sister, Jean Farnsworth of Winnetka, IL; her daughters and their spouses: Rebecca and Owen Neville of Boxborough, MA; Amy Rothrauff of Shirley, MA: Margaret Rothrauff and Alex Rapp of San Antonio, TX; Elizabeth Rothrauff and Robert Bock of Berkeley, CA; seven grandchildren: James, Kathleen, and William Neville; Lucy and Andrew Rapp; Oliver and Peter Bock; one great granddaughter, Zoe Neville; and many nieces and nephews. Her husband, Guido, predeceased her in 2001.
Services will be held at Mt. Auburn Cemetery in the Story Chapel, 580 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, on Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 10:00 am.
Donations can be made in her honor to Indian Hill Music in Littleton, MA: www.indianhillmusic.org/support/index.html or at 978-486-9524 x 107
Arrangements are under the care of the Dee Funeral Home of Concord.