TISKILWA — Margaret Catherine Ary, 87, of Tiskilwa passed away Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at Heartland Healthcare Center in Henry.

Born Dec. 24, 1924, in Princeton to Paul and Jane (Barry) Jamison, she married Donald Ary Oct. 1, 1955, in St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Tiskilwa. He died in 1992.

She was a graduate of Tiskilwa High School and St. Francis School of Nursing in Peoria. She had been a nurse at the V.A. Research Hospital in Chicago and later at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, where she had served as head nurse until retirement.