Margaret "Peggy" (Moffatt) Gilman

Margaret Moffatt Gilman. A dedicated teacher and lifelong learner has finished her earthly examination, turned in her paper and left the room. A short course of pancreatic cancer led to her death on 01/13/2021.

Born to and predeceased by Thomas L. and Margaret L Moffatt of Silver Spring, Maryland in 1938, she attended The Academy of the Holy Names in Silver Spring with accomplishments in basketball and piano as well as academics, followed by Trinity College in Washington DC (and has been forever known as “Tillie” to those friends after a theatrical role). Captured early after college by a job in Virginia Beach, the “once and future” Beach Teacher was ever the Hispanophile with graduate training and travel resulting in friends across the country and around much of the globe. There was a hiatus, with residence in New York (Dobbs’ Ferry, Tarrytown, White Plains), enchanted to stay there by a Yankee Spirit, her husband Stan Gilman – teaching Spanish all the while. Delta Kappa Gamma (the professional society for women educators) benefitted from her membership and service, first in New York and then in Virginia where she was president 2000-2002.

Visit Margaret Gilman’s obituary at Cremation Society of Virginia.com.