Berube & Sons Funeral Home, Inc.

Margie (Belleau) Foley, 90, died Thursday morning in Grosvenor Park Nursing.  She was the wife of the late Richard “Dick” Foley.

Margie was born in Salem the daughter of the late Ernest and Lydia (Berube) Belleau.  She had been a resident of Salem and Peabody all her life.  During World War Two, Margie worked at General Electric in Lynn.  She was associated with her husband Dick in the ownership of Peabody Auto School for many years.  and had also been employed at Flair Cleaners in Beverly, as a supervisor at Handcrafters of New England in Salem and until her retirement at the age of seventy-five, she worked as a receptionist at the unemployment office in Salem.

Margie loved to play soccer and baseball with her grandchildren and never missed a single game that they were in.  She loved painting portraits and making smocked dresses.  Margie had a heart of gold and guests to her home would be given an unexpected full course meal minutes after arriving.  She was a woman full of life and loved to share it with her family.  Margie has lived in Grosvenor Park in Salem for the last seven years where she was loved and well cared for by the residents and staff alike.  There, she loved to entertain everyone with her singing and dancing.

Surviving are one daughter, Maureen Woods and her husband Jack of Peabody, one son, Richard and his wife Diane of Texas, five grandchildren; Jay, Mark and his wife Amanda, and Heather Woods, Melissa and Anthony Nall, and Jennifer Foley, and several nieces and nephews.  She was the sister of the late Gloria Michaud, George and Ernest Belleau.