Margaret Ruth Heinzman Schreiber

Margaret Ruth “Peg” Schreiber of Chestertown, MD, died on October 4, 2018, at Autumn Lake Health Care in Chestertown. She was 83. She was born in Youngstown, OH, on February 19, 1935, and raised in Girard. She was the daughter of the late Ernest and Elizabeth Riel Heinzman. Mrs. Schreiber raised her own horse and showed Tennessee Walking Horses as an adolescent. She attended Oho State University where she was a pioneer as one of the first to be educated as an X-Ray Technician. With this education, she worked at Ohio State Hospital in Columbus, Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren, OH, Grace Hospital in Detroit, MI, and Massachusetts General Hospital. While at Massachusetts General, she earned her certificate in X-Ray Technology from the chief radiologist. In 1955, she married Harry Schreiber in Girard, OH, and they resided in Birmingham, MI, as well as Littleton, Arlington, and Wellesley Hills, in MA. She sang with the Boston University Chapel Choir for five years. She served as publicity director for the Boston Association for Childbirth Education and a lactation consultant for the La Leche League. They moved to Reston, VA, in 1968, living there for five years before moving to Winnetka, IL, just outside of Chicago. Mrs. Schreiber spent some of the best years of her life in Winnetka where she was active with the Chicago Visitors Center, the Japan-American Society, and the Winnetka Community Church rummage sale, which was brought to the attention of the Guinness Book of World Records the year she chaired the sale. She also served on the Woman’s Board of the Chicago Youth Centers. They returned to Reston after spending five years in the Chicago area and later moved to Chestertown, MD, where she was active in community affairs and the Republican Women’s Club. Over the years when they lived in Reston, Mrs. Schreiber served as chairman of a condominium association, taught Red Cross lifeguard training, was an active member of the Reston and Fairfax Republican Clubs, was on the Board of the Reston Community Players, and was active with Girl and Boy Scouts. She was a member of the Skokie Valley Chapter of the D.A.R. in Illinois and the Sunshine chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in Girard, Ohio. In addition to her husband, she is survived by their daughters, Margaret “Meghan” Yeager of Reston, VA, and Amy Garcia of Ashburn, VA, and their son, Thomas Schreiber of Palm Harbor, FL. In addition, she is survived by three grandchildren, Andrea “Kitt” Whitehouse, Henry Schreiber, and Holly Schreiber, along with two great-grandchildren, Chase and Ethan Whitehouse. Funeral services will be held on Friday, Oct. 12, at 11:00 AM at Emmanuel Episcopal Church. A visitation will be held on Thursday, Oct. 11, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Fellows, Helfenbein, and Newnam Funeral Home, www.fhnfuneralhome.com, on 130 Speer Road in Chestertown. The interment will be held at Chester Cemetery, Chestertown.

Margaret Ruth Heinzman Schreiber

February 19, 1935 - October 4, 2018