Marguerite Kincius died on July 15, 2025, at Grace House Assisted Living in Silver Spring. She was a resident of Greenbelt for over 70 years. She recently celebrated turning 100 years old this past February.
She was born Marguerite Ellen O’Connor in 1925, in Mount Rainier, the youngest of five children. She attended St. James Catholic Elementary School in Mount Rainier and Immaculate Conception Academy High School for girls in Washington, D.C.
She began her career working for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), and worked later for the federal government in Washington, D.C.
In 1950, Marguerite met and married Kazimer Kincius and soon after moved into Greenbelt and began to raise a family of one girl and three boys.
She was a parishioner of St. Hugh of Grenoble Church and a member of the Ladies Sodality.
In the early 1960s she returned to the workforce at the Department of Agriculture in Beltsville and stayed until she retired in 1987.
Marguerite is survived by her children Mary Colleen Brown, Charles Kincius and Joseph Kincius; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Kazimer, her son Kevin Kincius, her sisters Bernadette O’Connor and Sister Marie Gregory, her brothers Joseph O’Connor and Gregory O’Connor and her grandson Ryan Brown.
A viewing will be held on Wednesday, July 23, from 4 to 8 p.m. at Borgwardt Funeral Home, 4400 Powder Mill Road, Beltsville. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Hugh of Grenoble Catholic Church on Thursday, July 24, at 10 a.m.
In lieu of flowers gifts in Marguerite’s memory can be made to the Sisters of St. Joseph at csjoseph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Donation-Form.pdf.
