- Margaret M. Brown, age 89, of San Marcos, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 8, 2012.
Margaret was born in Hastings, Nebraska and moved to Houston with her family when she was six. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin High School. She married Bennett A. (Benny) Brown III and had 4 boys. She lived almost all of her adult life in Houston. She served as church secretary for St. Timothy's Episcopal Church in Garden Villas, secretary to chaplains at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, and secretary to the Harris County Probate Courts.
Margaret is preceded in death by her husband Benny, her mother Viola and father James R. McCreary, and brothers Willis, Jack, and Kim McCreary.
She is survived by her sister Jeanette Moyer of Hemphill, TX, brother James McCreary of Baytown, her son Ben Brown and his wife Crystal of Animas, NM, granddaughter Margaret and husband Jeff Lentz of Lytle, TX, granddaughter Donelle Harris of Lytle, TX, son Kim Brown and his wife Mary of Somerville, TX, granddaughter Stacey Kitzmann of Bryan, TX, son Kirby Brown and his wife Suzanne of San Marcos TX, and grandson Lane Brown and his wife Marcella of Austin, TX, and son Keith Brown and wife Ellen of Houston, TX, and granddaughters, Katherine and Caroline; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m., Friday, February 17, 2012 at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, 6900 Lawndale Street, Houston, Texas 77023.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in honor of Margaret to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital at www.stlukestexas.org or to the American Heart Association at www.heart.org.
Condolences may be made at www.cookwaldenforestoaks.com.
Published in Houston Chronicle on February 16, 2012
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1922 - 2012 (89 years)
