Margaret Pipes Peabody

Published 12:05 am Friday, November 27, 2015

NATCHEZ — Memorial services for Margaret Pipes Peabody, 88, who died Monday, Nov. 23, 2015, at the home of her daughter in Natchez, after a long illness, will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Episcopal Church.

Visitation will be from noon until service time Saturday at the church.

Mrs. Peabody was born Jan. 25, 1927, at Southdown Plantation in Houma, La., the youngest child of David Washington Pipes and Mary Minor Pipes.

After her marriage in 1952, she lived in Natchez where she was instrumental in starting the Historic Natchez Foundation, president of the Women of Trinity Church, president of the Natchez Garden Club and a Mississippi delegate to the 1964 Republican Convention.

She lived in Blue Hill, Maine, for a number of years and then in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, she moved back to her beloved Natchez. She was a 1948 graduate of Vassar College. She was a former regent for Kenmore House in Fredericksburg, Va., a member of the Colonial Dames, a dedicated bridge player and a devoted aunt to 28 nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Peabody was preceded in death by her husband, Howard Bell Peabody Jr.; one daughter, Margaret Peabody Cotten; three sisters, Nan Eustis, Katharine Butler and Mary Butler; and three brothers, David W. Pipes Jr., H. Minor Pipes and John Pipes.

Survivors include three children, Elizabeth Miles and husband, Porcher, of New Orleans, David Holmes Peabody and wife, Ginger, of Alexandria, Va., and Louise Peabody and husband, Ben Ledbetter, of Natchez; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Many thanks for the loving care of Shelia Marshall and Mary Sewall and Deaconess Hospice.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Historic Natchez Foundation, 102, S. Commerce St., Natchez, MS 39120 or to Natchez City Cemetery, P.O. Box 1738, Natchez, MS 39121.

Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.