[F] #32857 Minnie Margaret "Margaret" Mechling ( Arthur Waldo Mechling • Alfred Melancthon Mechling • Jacob D. Mechling • John Peter Mechling • Jacob Mechling • John Theobald "Dewalt" Mechling◊ • Diebold "Theobald" Mechling◊ • Diebold Mechling◊ • Martin Mechling◊ )
Margaret was born 27 Oct 1905 in Wheatfield, Indiana. She died 7 May 1999 in Hamilton, Montana.
Margaret grew up on homesteads in central Montana near Geraldine, and after graduating from high school there in 1923, she attended Dillon Normal School. Following that, she taught school until 1929, when she married Lloyd R. Owen. The couple first resided in Missoula and Stevensville, then Geraldine, next in Missoula again from 1941 to 1976, and finally near Hamilton in retirement.
Margaret was skilled at crocheting and needlework, a dedicated genealogist, an avid reader and, above all, a master gardener - especially with flowers, irises in particular. She also raised eight children during and just after the Great Depression, helped run the family business and looked after her own mother for many years.
Margaret married #37185 Lloyd Reynold Owen.
Relationship notes |
They married 1929. |
Lloyd was born 23 Jul 1907. He died 17 Jun 1988 in Montana.
He is the son of Edward & Susie Owen.
Children of this relationship:
#32740 | M | i | Living | |
#32747 | M | ii | Living | |
#32752 | F | iii | Living | |
#32764 | M | iv | Bryan Mechling Owen | (30 Oct 1934–31 Dec 2019) |
#32770 | M | v | Living | |
#37186 | M | vi | Gail Arthur Owen | (20 Nov 1937–14 Dec 2003) |
#32775 | M | vii | Living | |
#37187 | M | viii | Living |
Dorothy Hallarn Mercy, Mechlin Mechling Macklin - Descendants of Theobald Mechling, 1728-1998, Volume I-Dewalt Mechling, (Butler, PA: Mechling Associates, 1998). Ref. as [Mercy I-98].
M. Margaret Owen obituary, Missoulian 2 Aug 2006 (http://www.missoulian.com/articles/1999/05/09/export52834.txt).
Line Generation: 10
Relationship: Fifth Cousins One Times Removed through John Theobald "Dewalt" Mechling◊