Obituary

Funeral services for Margaret "Peggy" Hamill Soucy, 91, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mark's Episcopal Church with the Right Reverend J Scott Mayer, celebrant, and assisting clergy the Rev. Bruce Green, rector, and the Rev. James Haney V of Lubbock. Burial of ashes will follow in the church's memorial garden. Cremation arrangements are by Bartley Funeral Home. A reception to visit with family members will be held in the parish hall following the service. Mrs. Soucy died in her home Wednesday afternoon, July 20, 2011. She was born June 13, 1920, in Lynn, Mass., to John and Nellie Hamill. A 1941 graduate of Salem (Mass.) Hospital School of Nursing, she enlisted in the Navy Nurse Corps in 1942. During World War II she served in Navy hospitals stateside and in Hawaii. On Jan. 25, 1945, she married Leonide "Lee" Benoit Soucy at the chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Cathedral in Honolulu, Hawaii. They moved to Plainview in 1946. Mrs. Soucy was a member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church for more than 65 years. She belonged to St. Ann's Guild, was a member of the Altar Guild of which she later served as directress, taught Sunday school and assisted in organizing Vacation Bible Schools in the 1950s and '60s. Several times she was elected to the vestry and also voted to serve as senior warden of the vestry of St. Mark's. She was an active member of St. Mark's Episcopal Church Women (ECW) and the ECW of the Diocese of Northwest Texas, serving as president of Diocesan ECW in the 1980s. Additionally, she served on deanery committees for the Diocese of Northwest Texas. She was a member of Junior Service League, received the PTA Life Membership, staffed voting booths, delivered Meals on Wheels and was an organizing member of Faith in Sharing House. She organized and instructed an LVN program for the Plainview Hospital and Sanitarium and was a medical missionary to Mexico, Haiti and Honduras. She was camp nurse at Bishop Quarterman Conference Center for several summers. She also helped train dogs and participated in dog obedience classes. Mrs. Soucy was preceded in death by her husband, Lee, and three older brothers. Survivors include her three children, Mary and her husband, Ken McCormick, of Amarillo, John Soucy of Honaunau, Hawaii, and Margaret Soucy of Silver City, N.M.; three grandchildren, Melissa Brockman and her husband, Leland, and Marty McCormick, all of Lubbock, and Claire Soucy of Farmington, N.M.; and four great-grandchildren, McKenna and Carson Shelton, Evelynn McCormick and Rylan Brockman, all of Lubbock. Memorial donations may be made to St. Mark's Episcopal Church, the Humane Society, Area Community Hospice Inc. of Plainview or Bishop Quarterman Conference Center, 232 E. Cottonwood, Amarillo, TX 79107.