Margaret Eva Smith..... Age 98

Cremation
Visitation 2pm Sunday, September 3, 2017 at First Baptist Church in Osawatomie
Memorial Service 3pm Sunday, September 3, 2017 at First Baptist Church in Osawatomie

Memorials are to First Baptist Church of Osawatomie
may be sent c/o Eddy-Birchard Funeral Home
P.O. Box 430
Osawatomie, KS 66064

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Margaret Eva Smith age 98 of Osawatomie, KS died Thursday August 24, 2017 at Life Care Center of Osawatomie

Margaret was born August 29, 1918 to Irl R. and Celina E. Shively on the family farm in Osawatomie, KS.  She attended Indianapolis Grade School and Osawatomie High School, where she played cello in the high school orchestra and accompanied the high school glee club on piano.  She attended Ottawa University for one year, before teaching at Fairview, Osage Valley, and Meek Grade Schools.  She then went to Kansas University where she graduated June 29, 1944 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education.  She taught music at Miltonvale, KS and later in Michigan.  She married Leon Ray (Mac) McNeven on June 26, 1946 in California and they were the parents of two children, Maureen Lee and Morgan Irl McNeven.  Mac was in the Army and was transferred numerous times during the course of their marriage.  Upon his retirement from the service, they moved to Michigan where Margaret once again took up her career as a music teacher.  Margaret and Mac divorced on November 27, 1961. Margaret married Raymond Earl Smith September 5, 1966, but, sadly Raymond died just two months later, on November 22, 1966.

Margaret was a long-time member of her college music sorority, Order of the Eastern Star, local historical society, Daughters of the American Revolution and the First Baptist Church of Osawatomie.  She loved music and shared it often as accompanist.  She also had a real passion for genealogy, and collaborated with her sister, Helen, to write several family histories.  They discovered they had 15 patriots in the American Revolution.  She became a source of information for distant cousins from all over the United States, and enjoyed an active correspondence with many of them.

Margaret is preceded in death by her parents, her husband and her two children.  She is survived by her sister, Helen Marie Satzler and husband Robert of Sand Springs, OK, formerly of Topeka, KS; niece, Kyra Gail Hamilton and husband Wayne of Sand Springs, OK; niece, Jill Satzler Silbiger of Marietta, GA; nephew, Timothy R. Satzler and wife Nancy of Oklahoma City, OK; three great-nieces; five great-nephews; three great-great nieces; two great-great nephews; and cousins of several generations.