Margaret Nasmith Wedge

Mrs. Wedge died Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

She was born May 17, 1930, in Ningpo, China, the daughter of Augustus I. and Alice (Carter) Nasmith. Her parents were Baptist missionaries and she grew up in China and the United States. She graduated from Shanghai American School in 1948, and then she returned to the United States and attended Middlebury College in Vermont for three years. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University in 1953 and a Master of Social Welfare degree from Kansas University in 1979. She lived in Minneapolis, Minn., from 1953 to 1958, when she moved to Lawrence.

Mrs. Wedge was a social worker for the Jefferson County Welfare Department in Oskaloosa from 1969 to 1977. She then worked for Social and Rehabilitative Services in Lawrence until she retired in 1993. She was adult services supervisor for several years at SRS and was a practicum instructor for students in the KU School of Social Welfare. She received a Pioneer Award from Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center in 1989 because of her years of service to adults and children. She was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church.

She married George Francis Wedge III on Aug. 29, 1953, in Arlington, Va. He died June 5, 1999.

Survivors include three daughters, Laura Lawrence, Williamsburg, Va., Alberta Elliott Wedge, Ozawkie, and Louise Wedge Pennewell, Lawrence; a son, Philip Wedge, Lone Star; a brother, Augustus Nasmith, Sun City West, Ariz.; three sisters, Agnes Johnston, Alexandria, Va., Mary Means, Gainesville, Va., and Helen Schantz, Odessa, N.Y.; and five grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra or the Youth Council of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, sent in care of Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home.