Submitted by: Dan Rich
South Bend Tribune 5/15/1994
COMMUNITY
LEADER CARBERRY, 68, DIES SOUTH BEND - Margaret ''Peggy'' Bruggner Carberry, 68, of Coventry Trail, known for her longtime community service and involvement, died at 4:50 p.m. Friday in St. Joseph's Medical Center of complications from recent surgery. Mrs. Carberry, a former vice president of marketing for 1st Source Bank, was an active volunteer in many organizations and projects through the years. While at 1st Source, Mrs. Carberry initiated the ''Today's Woman'' and ''Money Money'' programs for woman and children in the community. She joined the bank in 1973 after 10 years in real estate and retailing. Her community involvement followed a family tradition that included her grandfather, George Hull, a 25-year member of the City Council, and her father, a school board president. She was a founding member and later president of the Michiana Arts & Sciences Council Inc. and was involved in starting the Firefly Festival and the annual Carnival for the Arts. She was a past president of the Junior League of South Bend Inc., which had just honored her as the 1994 sustaining member of the year. Mrs. Carberry was past president of the board of directors of Madison Center Inc.; Century Productions Inc.; and the Children's Dispensary and Hospital Association Inc. She was active in the Northern Indiana Historical Society, the United Way of St. Joseph County as a campaign division chairwoman, WNIT-TV, Brian's House, AIDS Ministries/AIDS Assist, Youth Service Bureau, YWCA, the Morris Performing Arts Center restoration and Daughters of the American Revolution. She was involved in Art in Public Places, which brought the ''Keeper of the Fire'' sculpture by diSuvero to South Bend in 1980. She also wrote several articles for The Tribune of her visits to England. Mrs. Carberry was born Sept. 21, 1925, in South Bend and was a lifelong resident. She married Arthur W. Dailey, who died, and William J. Kluessner, who also died. On Sept. 21, 1974, in South Bend she married James J. Carberry, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Notre Dame, who survives. Also surviving are a daughter, Christine Dailey Schultz of Hinsdale, Ill.; two sons, Daniel L. Dailey of Minneapolis and David A. Dailey of Menlo Park, Calif.; five stepdaughters, Alison C. Kiene of Poplar Grove, Ill., Maura O'Malley Carberry of Newark, Del., Susan Chapman of Laguna Hills, Calif., and Ann Miller and Jan Huge, both of Irvine, Calif.; and 12 grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Basilica at University of Notre Dame. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Notre Dame. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Monday and Tuesday in Hickey Funeral Home Cleveland Road Chapel, 17131 Cleveland Road. Memorial contributions may be made to the Junior League of South Bend Endowment Fund; the Children's Dispensary and Hospital Association Inc.; or the Five Owls Foundation, Hamline University, Crossroads Center, 1536 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul, MN 55104. |