Mary McGann
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Born during the Blitz, Mary (nee Beale) McGann, who passed away on 29 June, grew up in a rural English village where her father was a vicar. She and her twin sister Myra went to The Mount, a Quaker boarding school for girls in York, on scholarship. Mary then attended nursing school at Westminster Children's Hospital in London. It was there, in March 1960, that she met Rob McGann, a young doctor; the couple quickly fell in love and were engaged in a matter of weeks and married within months.
They soon moved to Singapore while Rob served as a doctor in the Royal Navy. They returned to the UK in 1963, with their first son, Robert, on the way; their second son, Charles, arrived in 1965. The following year the family immigrated to the US, stopping first in Maine before settling in Meriden, Connecticut, where Rob was a family practitioner. There, their third child, Harriet, was born.
A capable and energetic woman, Mary contributed much to the communities in which she lived. She was president of the Meriden Symphony Society, sang with the Meriden Community Chorus, sat on the board of the Martin Luther King Scholarship Fund and volunteered at the Meriden Wallingford Hospital. A voracious reader, Mary contributed to the success of the local library in Sea Trail Plantation after Rob and Mary relocated to Sunset Beach, North Carolina, in 1999.
Wherever she was, Mary was a thoughtful neighbour, gracious host, fantastic cook and robust friend to many. To the family she leaves behind, she was a wonderful wife, mother and grandmother, whose boundless love, generous spirit and unshakeable confidence in her children gave them the strongest of foundations.
She leaves behind her loving husband of 60 years, Robert; her three children, Robert, Charles and Harriet; their wives and partners, Anne McGann, Barbry McGann and David Jones; and grandchildren, Nathaniel McGann, Abigail Parsons, Declan McGann and Kaela McGann.
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