Obituary of Margaret G. Moynihan

Margaret G. "Peggy" Moynihan, 93, formerly of Baker St. Ext. Jamestown, NY, passed away at 6:45 p.m. Monday, June 25, 2018, in the Lutheran Home and Rehabilitation Center. A lifelong area resident, she was born September 23, 1924 in Jamestown, NY, daughter of the late Jay W. and Agnes G. O'Brien Gould. She was 1939 graduate of the former SS Peter & Paul Catholic School and a 1942 graduate of Jamestown High School. She earned her nursing degree from the Georgetown University School of Nursing in 1945 and took graduate courses in Polio Nursing from the Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital. She also worked as an emergency room nurse at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. She began her nursing career in 1948 as a respirator care and polio nurse at the Los Angeles County Hospital in CA and in 1949 came back to Jamestown and set up and managed an entire polio unit and taught classes to other nurses in polio care. She also did private duty nursing and was a polio nurse at both WCA Hospital and Jamestown General Hospital. Before her retirement, she was a registered nurse and night supervisor at the former Jamestown General Hospital from 1951-1983. Her post retirement years were spent working for Accredited Care in Jamestown until 1986. She was a communicant of Holy Apostles Parish at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church where she was a life time member of the Altar and Rosary Society. She was also a member of the Lakewood Rod & Gun Club, the Vikings Lodge. She will be remembered as a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother who loved to spend time painting, knitting, quilting and sewing. She and her late husband Bill loved to travel and spent time in Ireland, Hawaii, the Caribbean and enjoyed vacations at Stone Harbor, NJ with family. Surviving are her three children, Colleen M. Moynihan of Milford, NH, Gary M. (Donna) Moynihan of Lakewood, NY, Stephen P. (Mary) Moynihan of Wexford, PA, six grandchildren, Kirby (Kevin) Cullinan, Evan Moynihan, Jenna Moynihan, Meghan (Kyle) Dougherty, Molly Moynihan, Patrick Moynihan and two great grandchildren, Sawyer Marie Cullinan and Ronin Patrick Dougherty. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, William M. Moynihan, Jr. whom she married June 27, 1953 and who died August 26, 2010, three brothers, Richard, Eugene, Joseph Gould and a sister, A. Marie Gould Seaton. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 am Friday in Holy Apostles Parish at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church. The Rev. Dennis W. Mende, pastor will be celebrant. Burial will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery. Friends will be received from 5-7 pm Thursday in the Lind Funeral Home where a Christian Wake Service will be led at 4:45 pm Thursday in the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Holy Apostles Parish, 508 Cherry St. Jamestown, NY 14701 or to a charity of one's choice.