Peggy A. Sheehan, 85, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, January 26, at Heritage Hall Nursing and Rehabilitation center, Front Royal, Virginia, where she had been a resident since September 2021.
She was born on June 15, 1937 in Worcester, Massachusetts, daughter to the late Thomas M. Sheehan, Sr. and Florence V. (Burke) Sheehan.

Peggy graduated from the University of Florida with both Bachelor and Master degrees. She taught school in the US for a short time and then got the “travel bug” and spent over seven years in various countries throughout Latin and Central America and the Caribbean with the American Schools & Hospitals Abroad program. She elected to return to the US in 1967 and was accepted into the Federal Management Internship program, taking an assignment with the Office of Food for Peace, US Agency for International Development. She spent seventeen years with that Agency and after a short assignment as AID Advisor to the US House of Representatives Select Committee on Hunger, she left Federal service in 1984, accepting a senior position with the National Cooperative Business Association and its subsidiary, Cooperative Business International. She served in various capacities with these groups until 1998, when she decided to start her own consultancy business.

Peggy achieved well over fifty years of international work with three very different, yet similar, careers — as a teacher, US Government worker and with two non-profit organizations. Most of those years focused on domestic and international programs that dealt with market development, food aid, large-scale procurement activities, agricultural production, food processing, research and dairy development; as well as corporate, governmental and international organizational negotiations. She was considered a specialist in the monetization of food aid.

Peggy was preceded in death by her younger brother, Thomas M. Sheehan, Jr. She is survived by her sister-in-law Marsha E. (McNeal) Sheehan, Winchester, VA, a niece, Kerrie K. Sheehan-Jobe, Frankfurt, Germany, her husband, Timothy D. Jobe, Winchester, VA, a nephew, Thomas M. Sheehan, III and his wife, Michele J. Sheehan, Myrtle Beach, SC, a great niece, Courtney J. Sheehan, Chester, MD and a great nephew, Dylan R. Devereaux, Frankfurt, Germany.

Burial will be private, but plans are to hold a graveside memorial service in early July 2023, when family and friends will be welcomed. Donations in Peggy’s name can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association (Website: alz.org). Contact Marsha Sheehan at mesheehanaol.com for additional information.