Florence Lamborn (Pete) Peters died peacefully in her sleep at Acorn Glen Assisted Living in Princeton, N.J., on July 19. She had just turned 92 in June.

Pete was born on June 28, 1928, in Montclair, N.J. and was the second child of John Warren Lamborn and Anna Elizabeth Flynn. She graduated from The Convent of the Sacred Heart Maplehurst (now Greenwich) and from Rosemont College in 1949 with a degree in English. Upon graduation, she returned home to Montclair where she worked in a photography studio.

She married Landon Peters on February 2, 1952 and they were married for 53 years, until Landon’s death in 2005. After their marriage, they moved to San Antonio, Texas, where Landon served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict and where their eldest child, Eric, was born. They truly enjoyed their adventures in San Antonio.

They returned to Princeton and remained there for the rest of their lives, where their sons Michael, John, David and Christopher were born.

Her own mother’s lessons of community service led Pete to enjoy a long career as a volunteer in Princeton community organizations. At various times, she held leadership roles in the YWCA, Friends of Princeton University Art Museum, McCarter Theatre, Medical Center Auxiliary, the United Way of Princeton, the Historical Society of Princeton and the Garden Club of Princeton. In 1990, the United Way of Princeton awarded her the Gerard Lambert Award, its annual award recognizing volunteer leadership in the Princeton community. The Garden Club of America awarded her its Zone IV Creative Leadership Award and the GCA Medal of Merit.

She was also a founding member of Kieve Effective Education in Damariscotta, Maine, which funds Camp Kieve and Wavus Camp for Girls. While Pete held a firm belief that those who have been blessed with good fortune have a responsibility to contribute to their communities and to those less fortunate, she also greatly valued the enduring, cross-generational friendships that were a part of all of her community activities.

Pete had deep ties to Martha’s Vineyard. Her maternal grandfather was George D. Flynn, Sr., who first came to Edgartown in the 1890s and purchased Pohogonot Farm in Edgartown in 1910, which is still owned by his descendants. Her paternal grandfather was Arthur H. Lamborn, who had a summer home at Juniper Place in Vineyard Haven, and whose six children all summered in Vineyard Haven in the early 1900s. Pete came to stay at Pohogonot Farm or in Edgartown every summer as a child. Her parents later had a summer home at Quitsa in the 1950s and 1960s.

While Pete and Landon were both raised in Montclair, they met in Edgartown as summer residents when teenagers. Pete and Landon began to spend every summer at the cabin at Pohogonot in 1956. They purchased Short Point in Edgartown, across Job’s Neck Pond from Pohogonot, from her Uncle George D. Flynn, Jr. in 1977 and built their summer home there in 1989, which they designed themselves. Pete was a member of the Edgartown Yacht Club and the Vineyard Golf Club. She enjoyed sailing and tennis, helping to restore the family tennis court at Pohogonot.

Her avid interest in the flora and fauna of the Pohogonot region, the preservation of Pohogonot Farm, and her extended Flynn family and their history, was instilled by her grandmother, Elizabeth D. Flynn. Her uncle, George D. Flynn, Jr., called her the “archivist.” She was the oldest surviving grandchild of George D. Flynn and Elizabeth D. Flynn.

She is predeceased by her husband, Landon; her son, Michael; her sisters, Patricia Coward Kolbe and Elizabeth Lamborn; her brothers, John W. Lamborn, Jr., and George D. F. Lamborn; and her daughter-in-law, Sarah Gelotte Peters.

She is survived by her sons, Eric and his wife, Eileen Murphy, and John, of Vineyard Haven, David, of Princeton, and Christopher and his wife Kathryn, of Dallas, Texas; seven grandchildren, and her great-grandson, John Peters.

A memorial service in Princeton will be held and interment will be in Edgartown, both at a future date.

Donations in her memory may be made to the Historical Society of Princeton, 354 Quaker Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 or the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, 151 Lagoon Pond Road, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568.