Margaret (Marge) Sellick

As a child, Margaret (nee Jenks) Sellick moved with her family from Rochester, New York, her place of birth, to Scotch Plains, New Jersey.  Upon graduation from Scotch Plains High School in 1953, she attended Trenton State College in Trenton, NJ, where she received a certificate in education.  During this time, Margaret’s brother-in-law Roger (husband of Margaret’s twin sister Marilynn) introduced her to Jack Sellick (deceased April, 2018) and in 1955 they married and moved to Lynchburg.  

Margaret has three children—Sarah and husband Glenn Meyer live in Lynchburg, son John Sellick and wife Deborah reside in Forest, and daughter Martha and husband Ken Linkcall Fredericksburg, Virginia, home.  When speaking of family, Margaret will quickly let you know that she also has five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. 

Once her children had reached nursery school age, Margaret began a career of over 30 years working in nursery schools.    First, she taught for five years in Lynchburg’s First Presbyterian Nursery School, followed by four years teaching at Randolph Macon Women’s College Nursery School.  She then became its director, a position she held for 15years.  A transfer for her husband required a move back to New Jersey, where Margaret taught for nine years in a Methodist Church nursery school.

The Sellicks returned to Lynchburg in the mid-1980s and Margaret divided her time between working as the official gift wrapper at the Farm Basket, providing services within the community as a volunteer, and pursuing her hobbies.  After 14 years, she retired from her job at the Farm Basket. Today, she continues to help out each week at Virginia Baptist Hospital, where she is a member of the Volunteer Board, and also assists in a variety of ways at the Alan B. Pearson Cancer Center.  When not at one of these two places, and if not swimming, she can be found with either a book or knitting needles in her hands.

Margaret looks forward to living at Westminster Canterbury since she feels she knows the place well; her mother, Eyla Jenks, resided at WC for 27 of her 103 years (1985-2012).   It is of interest to know that in the Administrative Office waiting area hangs a mirror given in 2004 by the Jenks family in honor of Mrs. Jenks.