Margaret "Peg" Greiner, 89, a dignified banker who delighted in teaching Sunday school to kindergartners, died Saturday at the Asbury Heights retirement community in Mt. Lebanon.

"She taught all of my kids. It was her life. She was a professional woman who didn't have a family of her own. The people of the church were her family," said Ruth Hutchinson, a fellow member of Dormont Presbyterian Church who remembered being awestruck by the 25-year-old Miss Greiner when she first met her at the age of 7.

Miss Greiner was a private person who never spoke of why she had gone into banking in an era when women rarely rose above secretary or teller. But, after years in predecessors of what is now PNC Bank, she retired nearly 25 years ago as a vice president, Ms. Hutchinson said.

She dressed well, held herself and others to high standards, and was active in the National Association of Banking Women and Soroptimist International, an association of women in the professions and management.

"She had high expectations of herself. The motto of Presbyterians was to do everything 'decently and in order.' That was Margaret," Ms. Hutchinson said.

Miss Greiner became an elder in her church when that was rare for women, and was one of the first to serve her congregation as "clerk of session," an important job on the lay governing boards of Presbyterian churches.

"She was a God-fearing lady, and she was a lady," said Ms. Hutchinson, who became a close friend and helped care for Miss Greiner in her last years.

"She told me that her favorite Bible verse was 'God is love,' and she truly believed that and lived her life as though God is love," she said.

Miss Greiner took care of her own parents in their later years. A decade ago she survived an initial bout with cancer. It returned in January.

The funeral is 11 this morning in the mausoleum chapel of Mt. Lebanon Cemetery.

Memorial gifts can be made to Dormont Presbyterian Church, 2865 Espy Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15216.