Margaret E. Young, known as Peggy Gene as a child and more recently as Peggy, died just short of her 91st birthday in Plymouth.

Mrs. Young was the daughter of Margaret Carpenter Sliger, and John R. MacPherson Klotz. She was born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey where she met her husband, the late William C. Young. They were married for 58 years. After their marriage, the couple summered in Manomet, Mass. with his family and his seven brothers and sisters and their children. She lived the last fifteen years of her life in Duxbury.

Mrs. Young spoke and/or read eight languages, and was especially fluent in French. She was widely traveled and had visited Italy, Spain, England, Scotland, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the Caribbean including Cuba. Her journeys took her to many museums and she developed an interest in art, especially Monet and the Impressionists.

Mrs. Young attended Smith College and was secretary of her class at Kimberley Academy for two generations. She was a docent at the Montclair Art Museum for 21 years, president of the residents at the Village at Duxbury from 1996 to 1999 and on the Board of Governors from 1999 to 2004.

At age 83, she wrote her memoirs. Until her final days she was still reading and writing to her large family.

Mrs. Young leaves her sons Peter of Birmingham Alabama, Mason of Manomet, Mass, John of Brentwood California, her son-in-law John Robb of Summit, New Jersey, and their families. She was the mother of the late Margaret.

In lieu of flowers it was her wish that contributions be sent to the Cranberry Hospice, 36 Cordage Park Circle, Plymouth, MA, 02360, and the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, at P.O. Box 1770 Manomet, MA, 02345.