BOMBER MEMORIAL

MARJORIE GROSVENOR "PEGGY" JONES SNOW ~ Class of 1967
December 29, 1948 - August 23, 2004

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Marjorie Grosvenor "Peggy" Jones Snow, loving wife, mother and friend passed away at home with her family on August 23, 2004 after a courageous battle with Hepatitis C and liver cancer. She was 55.

Peggy was born December 29, 1948 in Richland to the late Stephen and Marjorie Jones.

She attended Jefferson Grade School, Chief Jo Junior High School and graduated with the Class of 1967 from Richland's Columbia High School.

In 1977, Peggy graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a bachelor's in Earth Science. Later that same year, she was reunited with her childhood sweetheart, Ronny SNOW ('67 honorary). They married June 25, 1979, in Richland.

Peggy and Ron lived in Benton City and Livermore, CA before settling in Los Alamos in May, 1985.

She worked for Rockwell Hanford Operations as a geologist from 1977 to 1981, specializing in the Basalt Waste Isolation Project.

Peggy began work with the Earth and Materials Science division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1987 as a chemical technician. She had a great fondness for geology, travel and the outdoors. No year was complete without at least two family road trips.

Peggy is survived by her loving husband, Ron; her daughter, Stacy Baker and husband, Larry, of Middleton, DE; her daughter, Sarah, of Austin, TX; her son, Spencer; one granddaughter, Madeline Baker; and a sister, Elizabeth Goldkuhl, of Boulder Creek, CA.

She is further survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by a brother, Stephen Jones.

A reception in honor of Peggy was held on Friday, August 27, 2004, at the Snow residence.

Peggy's family would like to thank Barbara of the Visiting Nurses for her tenderness and support."

Memorial contributions may be made to the Los Alamos Visiting Nurse Service; P.O. Box 692; Los Alamos, NM 87544."

NOTE: Ron passed away in 2018.

Bomber Memorial put together by Shirley COLLINGS Haskins ('66).