Margaret J. "Peg" Libertus

Abt 1945 - 2011  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Margaret J. "Peg" Libertus  [1]
  Born	Abt 1944-1945	Corpus Christi, Nueces County, Texas, USA   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Medical	Peg was in a wheelchair due to polio.  [2]
  Residence	1987	High Spriings, Alachua County, Florida, USA   [1]
  Died	26 Sep 2011  [2]
  	Cause of death: ovarian cancer.
  Obituary	2 Oct 2011	Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA   [2]
  	Obituary, Margaret Joan "Peg" Libertus," Gainesville Sun Margaret Joan "Peg" Libertus, 67, died Sept. 26, from complications of ovarian cancer. Peg had to use a wheelchair due to polio. Despite that, Peg persevered. She earned a BA in English, an MA and MFA in theater arts, receiving honors for her direction of "Waiting for Godot". In Gainesville, Peg taught drama at Santa Fe College. She received a Florida Artist's Grant for her fiction writing. She encouraged local writers. She wrote, directed, and staged her tour-de-force, the musical "The Boxer of Basin Street". Peg had a strong commitment to community service and political activism. "She fought for her rights as a person with a disability long before any law said she had any." She loved poetry, music, astronomy and pro football. Peg enjoyed playing bridge and poker with friends and fishing off the piers of Cedar Key. She leaves behind her sweet dog, Fast Eddy, two brothers and cousins and friends across the country. No memorial service is planned but you may honor Peg at http://pegspage1.blogspot.com - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesville/obituary.aspx?n=margaret-j-libertus&pid=153969646#sthash.Se4ioPEW.dpuf
  Person ID	I5029	Full | ProgenitorWalker
  Last Modified	15 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Mivin W. Libertus,   b. 17 October1916, Coolidge County, Hamilton County, Kansas, USA ,   d. 14 Mar 1961
  Mother	Margaret Paulena Walker
  Family ID	F1761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S2694] Margaret Walker Libertus, obituary, 1 April 1987, The Gainesville (Florida) Sun, p. 28, col. 5; digital image, Google News (http://news.google.com/newspapers : accessed 6 Oct 2012). [S4101] Legacy.com, publisher, Gainesville. com (http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/gainesville/ : accessed 14 January 2014), obituary for Margaret J. Libertus; citing Gainesville (Florida) Sun, 2-3 October 2011. [S4103] Manifest, S.S. General H. B. Freeman, 7 July 1953, list no. 8, p. 8, lines 12-15, for Margaret P. Libertus, age 36, and three children; "Seattle and Tacoma, Washington, Passenger and Crew Lists of Airplane Departures, 1947-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 January 2014). Although the database indicates that it is an airplane, the manifest makes it clear that it is a sailing ship, as does an internet search for the General H. B. Freeman..