ASHELMAN, Margaret PETER 1916 - 2015

ASHELMAN, PETER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 12/17/2015 at 16:11:10

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Page 8

Margaret PETER ASHELMAN

Margaret PETER ASHELMAN, 98, of Fairfield died Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015.

A memorial service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Phoenix Rising Hall in Fairfield.

Contributions in her name can be made to Maharishi University of Management or Maharishi School of the Age of Enlightenment.

Behner Funeral Home & Crematory in Fairfield is assisting with arrangements.

Mrs. ASHELMAN was born Dec. 18, 1916, in Shanghai, China, to two medical missionary parents. She married Sam ASHELMAN.

She spent her first nine years in Shanghai living in a small compound with other missionary families. In 1926, the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where she completed her precollege schooling. In high school, she was given the honor of presenting flowers to Amelia Earhart, one of her heroines who, she said, inspired young girls of the day to expand their choices in life.

While attending Swarthmore College near Philadelphia, she spent summers on a Navajo reservation, where her father was medical director of 11 hospitals. She married before her senior year of college, then graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1938.

In 1944, the ASHELMANs and their children moved to Greenbelt, Maryland, where Mrs. ASHELMAN worked in the Greenbelt Co-op through 1962. The family lived on two different farms in the Sandy Spring, Maryland, area, and Mrs. ASHELMAN was a farm wife.

In 1961, the ASHELMANs bought 1,100 acres outside Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and built Coolfont Resort.

After learning Transcendental Meditation in 1971, Mrs. ASHELMAN taught TM in West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania. She attended the TM teacher training course in Italy, and took Governor training in Switzerland in 1975 and 1976.

In 1977, she moved to Fairfield as a member of the Maharishi International University Council of Executive Governors and was in charge of housing and the housekeeping department. She also worked in the university library for many years.

After completing advanced teacher training in South Fallsburg, New York, she taught the TM program with a team in San Diego for more than two years. She studied Maharishi Ayur Ved in Switzerland and completed courses in Maharishi Vedic Science in Delhi, India, and Maharishi Jyotish in Hawaii. She made several trips to India, and attended numerous World Peace Assemblies.

In her later years in Fairfield, she was an active member of the Peer Group for seniors, and one of the authors of "Being Our Own Heroes," a collection of short stories published by the writing group.

Survivors include: five children; eight grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

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