- Date Of Birth: August 11, 1922
- Date Of Death: June 6, 2016
- State: Connecticut
Margaret Ann (Peg) Nesbitt, a long-time resident of Westport, CT died peacefully on June 6th with her family in Bridgeport Hospital. She was 93. She was born on August 11, 1922 in Paw Paw, Michigan. She was the daughter of Harriet Burhans and Earl Burhans who was the Michigan State Senator responsible for the 1941 legislation allowing Michigan State University to fill the school vacancy when the University of Chicago dropped out of the Big Ten Conference. A graduate of Michigan State University in 1942, she received a bachelor’s degree in English and was recognized by the Mortar Board National Honor Society and invited to join Phi Beta Kappa. She was active in campus politics and was elected the first woman student body president as a senior. Upon graduation, she worked for Nash-Kelvinator in Detroit. It was there that she met her husband Edward J. Nesbitt of 45 years who was an engineering graduate of the University of Michigan and had accepted a position with Sikorsky Aircraft. The couple married in 1946 and moved to Connecticut where they built one of the first houses on High Point Road in Westport and raised a family a six children.
