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 | | Jean Margaret (Peggy) Wemyss was born in Neepawa, Manitoba on July 18,1926 to Robert Harrison Wemyss, a lawyer, and his wife Verna Jean, nee Simpson. |
 | | Verna died when Peggy was 4 years old, and Robert later married her sister, Margaret Campbell Simpson, a teacher and later a librarian, who was throughout the years one of Peggy's "greatest encouragers". |
 | | Margaret Laurence died on January 5, 1987, and, at her request, her ashes were brought by her children, Jocelyn and David, to be interred in Riverside Cemetary, Neepawa, on June 23, the day before the official opening of The Margaret Laurence Home, the former Simpson house where she had lived in her youth. |
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