SOUTH THOMASTON – Margaret E. (Peg) Hook, 90, died Tuesday, July 6, 2005, at a Rockport hospital, after a short hospitalization. Margaret, had been a resident of South Thomaston, since November 1980. She was born March 25, 1915, in Presque Isle, the daughter of William D. and Letitia A. Hall, and she grew up in Castine. Margaret Hook was a 1936 graduate of the University of Maine at Orono, where she majored in English, and met her future husband, Dr. Arnold E. Hook, of Fort Atkinson, Wis. Margaret was a 1937 graduate of library science at Simmons College in Boston, Mass., and later worked as a librarian at municipal libraries in Lakewood, Ohio, Madison Heights, Mich., and South Thomaston. Margaret and Arnold Hook were married in 1941 in Castine and raised their family in Detroit, Mich. and Birmingham, Mich. during the 1940s through the 1960s. Arnold Hook, a research virologist with the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, died in 1968. Margaret retired in 1980 and moved to South Thomaston, where she was a volunteer librarian at the public library, and at the Transportation Museum, in South Thomaston. Margaret was also a volunteer at the Island Institute in Rockland. Margaret Hook’s life-long passion was genealogy. She was a member of the Maine Genealogical Society, where she served for many years as first vice-president and corresponding secretary. She was a founding member of the Midcoast Genealogical Group, and made several research visits to genealogical archives in Salt Lake City, Utah and in Great Britain. Margaret was secretary of the Wessaweskeag Historical Society in South Thomaston. Margaret was predeceased by her husband, and her brother, Dr. Charles A. Hall. She is survived by her brother, Robert A. Hall, of Troy, N.H.; her four children, Richard of Augusta, Leonard, of Bristow, Va., Martha Ann Shuster of Naples, Fla., and Kenneth of Royal Oak, Mich., and also six grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren, many nieces, nephews and cousins. Visiting hours will be held 6-8 p.m. Sunday, July 10, 2005, at the Hall & Bibber Funeral Home, 78 Main St., Thomaston. Funeral service will be held 1:30 p.m. Monday, July 11, 2005, at the Peoples United Methodist Church of South Thomaston, Chapel Street, South Thomaston. In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that donations be made to the Education Fund of Mid Coast AAVW, care of June Hoyt, 11 Henderson Lane, Cushing, ME 04563. Arrangements are entrusted to Hall & Bibber Funeral Home, Thomaston.
MARGARET E. HOOK
