Margaret Vera Joan (Davies) Trenton, 95, of Orillia, Ontario formerly of Scarborough, Ontario died Wednesday, 19 July 2017 at Trillium Manor.

Born on 24 February, 1922 in Cardiff Wales U.K. she was the daughter of the late Robert George Davies and the late Gladys Duffield.

Margaret, known to everyone as Peggy, joined the Women’s Land Army(WLA) during WW2 and received a congratulatory letter from Queen Elizabeth for her services. After the war she worked in London as a bank clerk and met her would-be husband Dennis on the train to work. They married on Oct. 11, 1947 in Dorking, Surrey and emigrated to Toronto, Canada shortly after the wedding.

She gave up her work as a bank clerk to raise a family of two daughters and be a homemaker. During those years she was a very keen churchgoer and helped to start a new church in Scarborough called St George’s Anglican Church, which met in Fairmont School in Sept. 1952.The first service on St. Clair Ave was held on Oct 2, 1955 in a portable church building which had been purchased for one dollar. Four years later the church was built and consecrated in Sept. 1959. Peggy was a guest of honour at a special communion service to commemorate St. George’s 50th anniversary in 2002, which was a great tribute to her endeavours to build a new congregation.

Peggy was interested in all the handicrafts such as knitting, sewing, and embroidery. She also enjoyed social events at the church and getting together with her friends for a cup of tea and cake. She had a good sense of humour and was a very engaging person in conversation.

In her later years she moved to Orillia, where she became a resident of Champlain Manor Retirement Residence from 2007 for 7 years and then moved on to Trillium Manor for 3 years.

Peggy was predeceased by her elder brother, Arthur Davies, in 1980 and by her husband of 45 years, Dennis Trenton, who died at the age of 81, on 30 June 1993.


Peggy is survived by two daughters, Janet and Susanne; four
grandsons, Jordan, Daniel, Shane and Cameron; three great grandchildren, Henry, Adele and Reese and her niece Gillian.

On 25th July 2017, Peggy was laid to rest, alongside her husband, in the Veteran’s Section of the Pine Hills Cemetery in Scarborough. At her request, immediate family attended the graveside service officiated by Rev. John Blyth.

The family wishes to thank all those at Champlain Manor and Trillium Manor who gave Peggy such excellent, compassionate care over the past ten years.

Memorial donations may be made in Peggy’s name to the Alzheimer’s Society or Trillium Manor in Orillia.