AUGUSTA – Family and friends gathered in Portland, Maine, on Saturday, Oct. 8 to celebrate the life of Margaret Sullivan Montague. She passed away on July 20, 2022, at the MaineGeneral Rehabilitation and Long Term Care facility in Augusta.

“Peg” was born on Christmas day 1935 in Nashua, N.H. and was the second oldest of four Sullivan siblings. An accomplished student, she studied Chemistry at Regis College and Biochemistry in Hamburg, Germany, as a Fulbright Scholar. She worked as a chemist at Arthur D Little in Cambridge, Mass., for several years before taking time away from research to raise a family. She later returned to college to complete a M.A. in Pre-Columbian Art History from Columbia University.

Peg loved the outdoors and enjoyed cross-country skiing, kayaking, and hiking most of her life. She was an avid painter who depicted landscapes and abstract images using oils and watercolors. Her lifelong passion for travel, studying cultures and languages, and capturing these experiences on canvas had a lasting influence on her family.

She is survived by her three adult children, Sarah Montague of Arlington, Mass., Hugh Montague of Seattle, Patrick Montague of Woburn, Mass.; and four grandchildren.

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