BORN

1920

DIED

2013

FUNERAL HOME

Nickerson Funeral Home

77 Eldredge Park Way

Orleans, Massachusetts

Margaret Lutka Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Dec. 3, 2013.

Margaret Libby Lutka was born on December 22, 1920, in Charleston, ME. She graduated from the University of Maine as a Home Economics major with a Bachelor of Science minor.
While working on Cape Cod as a nanny/drapery maker she met her husband at the USO in Buzzards Bay. She is preceded in death by her husband of almost 70 years, George W. Lutka.
She raised three daughters, Cheryl Ann Rousseau, Susan C. Anger and Linda Antinarelli in West Boylston, MA, where she continued her education in Worcester and Framingham State Colleges. She became an elementary school teacher, then taught elementary art and boys woodworking.
She moved to Seekonk, MA and continued to work quite a few more years. Retiring after a 20-plus year career, she devoted herself to her family, especially he granddaughters. Andrea Antinarelli and Crystal Perna, and "dug in" to her passion for flowers and vegetable gardening.

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January 4, 2014

jackie holmes

Susan, Linda, and Cherie,I was saddened to learn of Aunt Peg's passing. You are in my thoughts and prayers.

January 4, 2014

Susan Chafe

From this side we wave goodbye, on the other they wave hello.
The family will miss you.
Your niece,
Susan

January 4, 2014

Althea Clifford

I will miss my sister, Peg, who was five years my senior.

December 3, 2013

The Staff of Nickerson Funeral Home

We wish to extend our deepest sympathies at this difficult time.

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