Mrs. Margaret Peele Wood, age 94 died at the Guardian Care Nursing Home in Ahoskie, North Carolina on Saturday, April 18, 2009. Mrs. Wood was born in Bertie County to the late Blanche Jenkins Peele and the late Charles Thomas Peele. She was married to the late Ollie Isom Wood and to this marriage was born two children. Mrs. Wood was devoted to her family. Being a homemaker she was able to provide for her family’s needs, as well she managed the C.T. Peele Store in Roxobel for many years. She was a lifelong member of the Sandy Run Baptist Church in Roxobel, North Carolina. Also preceding her in death are her five sisters; Lucille Cockrell, Viola Peele, Hilda Mitchell, Frances Burden, Mae Brown and her devoted son-in-law Steve Tayloe.
Survivors include her daughter, Gail W. Tayloe of Aulander, North Carolina and her son, Thomas R. Wood and his wife Anne of Palm City, Florida, five grandchildren; Tommy Wood, Debbie McCullough, Ricky Tayloe, Dawn Hendrix and Mary Gaskins, seven great-grandchildren; Nicholas and Abigail Wood, Valerie McCullough, Trey Tayloe, Hailey and Hannah Hendrix and Grace Gaskins.
Gail, I know the “Golden Girls” from Guardian Care are catching up on old times. Mama and Miss Margaret had a special friendship. I miss our daily contact but please know I feel your loss. She is in a better place.
Story and Gail’
Our hearts ache with you. Margaret was truly a wonderful person and special friend. We have such fond memories, such as the times she helped our little daughters select our birthday and Christmas gits at “Charlie Peele’s Store”. We still have the gifts. She never failed to tell us after church how pretty our choir special was and her coconut cake was to fight for. She will be greatly missed.
Margaret was truly one of the sweetest people I’ve ever met. I remember her from my childhood days in the R-K area in the 1940s, and even then her gentle smile, soft voice,and cheery expression made her special. She touched my heart especially in later yrs when I’d visit my cousins Beulah White & Eunice Banks at Guardian Care and find the 3 of them sitting in the lobby people-watching and talking. We’d all exchange hugs, and Margaret felt like my family, too. She was an RKHS 1932 graduate, as was my aunt Verlie Doughtie (Gardner). I will sincerely miss this dear, gracious, genteel lady!