Margaret Theresa Page

PONTIAC - Margaret T. Page, 87, of Pontiac died at 3:36 p.m. Friday (April 13, 2007) at OSF Saint James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center Pontiac.

Her funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Pontiac, with Monsignor Thomas Mack officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Pontiac.

Visitation will be from 9 to 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at Duffy Funeral Home, Pontiac. The rosary will be recited at 9 a.m.

Memorials may be made to Mary's School, Pontiac.

She was born April 19, 1919, at Turton, S.D., the daughter of James William and Catherine Gertrude Fitzgerald Corrigan. She married James Page, Pontiac, on Oct. 21, 1950, He died Oct. 17, 2005.

Survivors include a son, Jerry ( Julie) Page, Chenoa; five daughters, Patti (Dave) Dini, Arlington Heights; and Sandy Durham, Mary K. Page, Janice Sue (John) Golliday and Cherry Page, all of Pontiac; two sisters, Mary Corrigan and Eva Marie Corrigan, both of Pontiac; eight grandchildren, Christy (Scott) Long, Pontiac; Jason (Joy) Durham, Saunemin; Richard Durham, Pontiac; Katie (Drew) Rust, Woodbury, Minn.; Julie (Michael) Davis, Rolla, Mo.; Jacqui (Jamie) Gibson, Fairbury; Jim Golliday, Pontiac; and Dennis (Jamie) Durham, Saunemin; and 12 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Joseph Steven Page; a grandchild, Jamie Dini; two brothers, John Corrigan and Hugh Corrigan; and one sister, Catherine Corrigan.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Pontiac.

Margaret had been a registered nurse at OSF Saint James Hospital.

She attended St. Mary's Grade School, graduated from Pontiac High School and was a 1940 graduate of the Saint Francis School of Nursing in Peoria.

Margaret served as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II in England, France, and the Rhineland from 1943 to1945, receiving two Bronze Stars.