NORWALK, CONN Marjorie (Buttery) Kleinknecht of Norwalk died on Saturday, January 22, 2011 in Stamford at the age of 91. Born in Norwalk on July 9, 1919, Marge was the daughter of Ray and Ruth (Johnson) Buttery. A lifelong Norwalk resident, she was an avid reader and a devoted mother and grandmother. After retiring as the bookkeeper at Slickbar, Inc. in Saugatuck in the mid 1980s, she began another career as a librarian at the East Norwalk Library, which lasted until 2009. She married Richard Kleinknecht, her high school sweetheart, in 1943 in the midst of World War II. After the war they raised two daughters in East Norwalk. Dick passed away in 1970. She is survived by her daughters Lynn Carlson and Wendy Baker, their husbands, and by her grandchildren, Betsy Carlson Jaeger and Jeffrey Carlson. Marge's family will receive friends on Thursday, January 27, 2011 in Norwalk's Hoyt-Cognetta Funeral Home & Crematory, 5 East Wall Street from 3:00PM - 5:00PM. All other services will be private. Donations in her memory may be made to the East Norwalk Library, 51 Van Zant Street, East Norwalk,CT. 06855. HOYT-COGNETTA is honored to assist the family with the arrangements.
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