DATE: Sunday, August 24, 1997               TAG: 9708240006

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MARGARET S. GARY

Margaret Savage Gary, 96, of the 1300 block of Windsor Point Road, a retired pharmacist, died August 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 beginning of the gardens. 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.

A church service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Freemason Street Baptist Church by Dr. Donald J. Dunlap, followed by interment in Elmwood Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Lee's Friends, Norfolk Botanical Gardens or Freemason Street Baptist Church. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk, will be handling the arrangements. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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