Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gary, Margaret Ella Savage August 23, 1997
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Virginian Pilot August 26, 1997

Margaret Savage Gary, 96, of the 1300 block of Windsor Point Road, a retired 
pharmacist, died Aug. 23, 1997, in a Norfolk hospital.
The widow of Julian Haden Gary, she was a member of Freemason Street Baptist 
Church in Norfolk. Mrs. Gary was a native of Norfolk.
Mrs. Gary was a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, School of Pharmacy, 
Class of 1921. She retired after 34 years as a Civil Service hospital pharmacist 
with the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital. This was the first hospital 
pharmacy in Norfolk. She received a reserve commission in the USPHS and was the 
only woman serving in the operation of a hospital pharmacy in the USPHS for many 
years. She was a Charter member and former vice president of the American 
Hospital Pharmacist Association and a member of the Business and Professional 
Women's Club. She was active in local horticultural organizations including the 
Norfolk Botanical Garden Society, and served on the Botanical Garden Commission 
since the gardens first opened. She was a charter member of the Norfolk 
Botanical Garden Society which was formerly the Old Dominion Horticulture 
Society; Lakewood Garden Club; and a former member of the Lakewood Circle of the 
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters.
Survivors include several nieces and nephews. A church service will be conducted 
at 10:30 a.m. today at Freemason Street Baptist Church by Dr. Donald J. Dunlap, 
followed by interment in Elmwood Cemetery.


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