In Taunton, December 18, 2017 Margaret M. (Crowninshield) Kingsbury, Age 91, passed away unexpectedly at home. She was the widow of Paul V. Kingsbury and daughter of the late Lester and Diana Cinq-Mars Crowninshield. Her late siblings were Lester Crowninshield Jr., Elnora and Thomas Kelley, Elizabeth and Francis Buckley, Thomas Crowninshield, Joseph and Marjorie Crowninshield, Suzanne and Donald Blackwell and John and Frances Crowninshield. She is survived by four handsome sons, Gary Kingsbury, Glenn Kingsbury, Peter Kingsbury and Eric Kingsbury, and three beautiful daughters, Bette DeLang, Jean Kingsbury and Ellen Toli. They have best partners, Michael Toli, Lisa Kingsbury, Chuck DeLang, Penny Little and Arthur Conway.
Of course, they all looked like her. She has 12 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren who all loved her very much because she was so nice to them and never forgot to call on their birthday and sing to them. She graduated from Taunton High School, class of 1944 and Wilfred Academy in 1945. She enjoyed painting, playing cards, scrapbooking, and doing crafts of all kinds. She was a good mother, grandmother, and teetotaler. She was pretty, smart, and could play basketball and sing. Everyone knows how she loved shrimp except the small ones. Her family always came first. A funeral home service will be held at the O’Keefe-Wade Funeral Home, 70 Washington St., Taunton, MA 02780 on Friday, December 22nd at 10 am. Relatives and friends are also invited to visiting hours on Thursday from 4-7 pm. Burial will be in the family lot in St. Francis Cemetery in Taunton.