Margaret Virginia (Gregory) McNew (1918 - 2014)

Born 16 Apr 1918 in Daviess, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Wife of George Jefferson McNew Jr. — married 1940 in Sorgho, Daviess, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Nov 2014 at age 96 in Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States

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Biography

Margaret Virginia Gregory was born on April 16, 1918, in Daviess County, Kentucky.^[1]

Obituary as published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on 14 Nov 2014:^[2]

Margaret McNew, 96, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. Service: 10 a.m. Saturday at Shannon Rose Hill Funeral Chapel. Interment will follow in Greenwood Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Margaret was born on April 16, 1918, in Daviess County, Ky., to John and Pearl Gregory.

Margaret married George McNew in 1940 in Sorgho, Ky. Margaret and her husband George were longtime members and Sunday school teachers at Meadowbrook Baptist Church. Margaret devoted herself to helping others and was involved in several volunteer organizations. She was the president of the Tarrant Baptist Women's Missionary Union and a board member of the Riverbend Baptist Encampment. She was a consummate homemaker and hostess, and was always ready to entertain guests.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, John William Gregory and Beverly Gregory; and husband of 45 years, George J. McNew. Survivors: Son, Jim McNew and wife, Terry, of Granbury; daughter, Joye and husband, Oscar Hinojosa, of Harlingen; grandsons, Victor Hinojosa and wife, Lynne, Carlos Hinojosa, Gregory McNew and Jeffrey McNew and wife, Jussekau; and great-grandchildren, Miriam and Monica Hinojosa, and Emily and Abel McNew.

Sources

1. ↑ Middle name was Virginia according to first-hand recollection of daughter Joye (McNew) Hinojosa.
2. ↑ Paragraph breaks added for readability.

• "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHG-VY6W : 1 July 2015), Marguite V Gregory, 16 Apr 1918; citing Birth, Daviess, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHLQ-C7V : accessed 25 February 2017), Magaret V Gregory in household of John H Gregory, Sorgho, Daviess, Kentucky, United States; citing ED 45, sheet 2A, line 26, family 34, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 567; FHL microfilm 1,820,567.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM6Z-G57 : accessed 25 February 2017), Margaret V Gregory in household of John Gregory, District 3, Daviess, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 32, sheet 7B, line 55, family 140, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 741; FHL microfilm 2,340,476.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7RV-F5V : accessed 25 February 2017), Margaret Gregory in household of John Gregory, Magisterial District 3, Daviess, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 30-25, sheet 18A, line 20, family 308, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1299.

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1N-Z6DS : 11 July 2016), Margaret Gregory McNew, 2014; Burial, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States of America, Greenwood Memorial Park and Mausoleum; citing record ID 138729647, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.