IN MEMORIAM
“Margaret Howland, 92; gave the needy her time, attention.” By Emma Stickgold. Boston Globe. November 7, 2009. Margaret Clarke Howland, longtime resident of Needham and Beacon Hill divided her time among various local charities. She prayed with the sick and injured as a lay chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in her later years and sorted clothing at the thrift store, after helping it team up with the Home for Little Wanderers. While she enjoyed being a board member for different organizations, “She wanted to be doing something so that her board work would be more meaningful, out in the field so to speak,’’ said her daughter, Mary Smoyer of Jamaica Plain. She had been on the way to an exercise class when she suffered a stroke that led to her death. She was 92.