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 Peg ('66) and Moe ('65) Vitolins

Married August 30, 1969

Together for 39 years 

Our Dad (Dick Mitchell), Peg and Betsy at Peg's wedding

Amy (Vitolins) Bellini and Andy Vitolins,

Peg's and Moe's children

Family forever:  Sandy (Skinner '62) Pochman, Betsy ('63), Dot (MacPherson '41) Skinner Mitchell, Peg ('66)

Peg at the Leukemia/Lymphoma Nike Women's Half Marathon in San Francisco 2006

Betsy and Peg, sisters and best friends forever

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Peg's obituary from the Troy Record and the Albany Times Union:

Margaret 'Peg' Vitolins, 60, of Lansing Avenue in Troy, died September 28, 2008, at Samaritan Hospital after a long illness. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, she was the wife of Modris 'Moe' Vitolins, THS '65, daughter of the late Richard B. and Elizabeth O. Mitchell, and stepdaughter of Dorothy MacPherson Skinner Mitchell (THS '41) of Kent, WA. She resided in Troy most of her life and was a graduate of Troy High School, Class of 1966, and The State University of New York at Albany in 1970. Peg was payroll supervisor for Farm Family Insurance Company in Glenmont for the past 30 years. She was an active member of the Pawling Avenue United Methodist Church in Troy, the church choir, United Methodist Women, and the Order of the Eastern Star, Palestine Chapter. Her loves were her grandchildren, to whom she devoted the final years of her life, as well as playing the piano, gardening, and traveling. Survivors in addition to her husband and stepmother include her son, Andrew R. (Johna) Vitolins (THS '89) of Niskayuna; her daughter, Amy R. (Arthur) Bellini (THS '93) of Troy; her six grandchildren: Anna, Emma and Jack Vitolins, and Arthur III, Mitchell and Jordan Bellini; her sister, Betsy (Alan) Savery (THS '63) of Lincoln, CA; her step sister, Sandra THS '62 (Richard '63) Pochman of Renton, WA; brother-in-law Uldis THS '72 (Sue) Vitolins, sisters-in-law Nora Vitolins and Daphne Jones, and several nieces and nephews. The funeral service was held on Saturday, October 4th, at the Pawling Avenue United Methodist Church, 520 Pawling Avenue, Troy, with the Rev. Karyl Hopp officiating.  Interment was in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands. The family would like to thank the Samaritan Hospital 6th Floor staff, and Dr. Regina Resta and the NYOH staff, for all the love and support given to Peg. Contributions may be made in memory of Peg Vitolins to the Pawling Avenue United Methodist Church, 520 Pawling Avenue, Troy, NY 12180, or the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Upstate New York, 5 Computer Drive West Albany, NY 12205.

Betsy and daughter, Jill, with Aunt Peg in Cape Cod 2007

Peg's six grandchildren and great-nephew (Gabe at far left), October 2008

(from left):  Gabe, Artie, Anna (standing), Mitchell (below Anna), Jordan, Emma, and Jack. 

Death is nothing at all.  I have only slipped away into the next room.  I am I, and you are you.  Whatever we were to each other, that we still are.  Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used.  Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.  Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.  Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.  Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.  Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of shadow on it.  Life means all that it ever meant.  It is the same as it always was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity.  Why should I be out of your mind because I am out of your sight?

I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland
Canon, St. Paul's Cathedral, London