Margaret M. O'Meara MacGill
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2008
Margaret O'Meara MacGill, 88, who spent more than 25 years doing secretarial work in the Office of the Secretary of Defense until retiring
around 1980, died Feb. 8 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington of respiratory distress and pneumonia.
In the 1940s, Mrs. MacGill did secretarial work for the Ellett & Short insurance company in Washington. She then spent five years
with the Air Force Department.
Mrs. MacGill, an Arlington resident, was a native Washingtonian and a 1937 graduate of Roosevelt High School. She also graduated
from the Washington School for Secretaries.
In retirement, she was a member of genealogical societies and volunteered at the Arlington County Central Library's Virginia Room, a
reference service and repository for the county's historical resources.
Her hobbies included bowling and photography, and she traveled to Europe, Africa and the Far East.
Her husband of 57 years, Leon H. MacGill, died in June.
She had no immediate survivors.
-- Adam Bernstein