Margaret Russell Cronauer

Margaret Russell Cronauer completed her time among us on March 27, 2019. She lived a life committed to the family she loved, including an array of animal companions. Most recently of Menno Haven, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Margaret was born in Wall, South Dakota on January 30, 1935. Her family lived in Pierre, South Dakota, until 1949. At that time, her family moved to the Washington, D.C. suburbs after her father took a commission with the Public Health Service, National Institute of Health.
She met Frederick Miller during high school and they were married June 16, 1956. The family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, until 1975 and then moved to Hagerstown, Maryland. Margaret lived in a large Georgian-style house there and filled it with her animal friends and craft activities.
She married Charles Cronauer in November, 1983, after divorcing in 1980. Her time with Charlie may be among her happiest, and they pursued many interests and hobbies together. These included country line dancing, creating and marketing arts and crafts, and building a house near Keyser, West Virginia. This respite was named, "Manumitten."
Margaret worked as a medical transcriptionist and administrative assistant to a physician to support her family, after briefly attending the State College for Teachers, now Towson University.
She is survived by her sister, Nancy, and her brother, John, being preceded in death by her sister Winifred, her parents, Albert Lee and Margaret Davidson Russell, husband Charles Cronauer, and her first husband, Frederick. She is further survived by her five children, Mark (MaryAnn), Steve (Susan), Suzanne (David), Mary Margaret (a.k.a. Meg), and Michael, step children Charles, Suzanne, and Linda, grandchildren Jeremy Jamison (Stacey), Alex Miller (Becca), Paige Miller, Claire Lazo, Stephanie Pacheco (William), and Patrick Best (Typhanie). Great-grandchildren include Lilly, Wyatt, and Daphne Jamison, Sydney and Hannah Miller, and William, Evelyn, and Minerva Pacheco.
Services and internment will be held Tuesday, April 2 at 2:00 pm., at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 18313 Lappans Road, Boonsboro, Maryland, 21713, conducted by the Reverend Anne Weatherholt.