Margaret E. Bisbee

1905 - 1989  (84 years)

• Name	Margaret E. Bisbee  [1]
  Birth	20 Jul 1905	Fremont, Newaygo, Michigan, USA   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Other Name	Peg
  Death	17 Aug 1989  [2]
  Burial	Y  [2]
  Person ID	I12010	Bisbee
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2010

  
  

  Father	Glenn W. Bisbee,   b. 17 Nov 1874, , Mecosta, Michigan, USA d. Bef 1960 (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Joan M. Foreman,   b. Abt 1877, Dewitt, Clinton, Michigan, USA d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	14 Dec 1898	Fremont, Newaygo, Michigan, USA   [1]
  	Found in 1920 census, Muskegon, Muskegon, Michigan.
  Notes	Some of the information on this family was submitted by Mary Brownyer, Descendant of Alanson Bisbee (I9075).
  Family ID	F4368	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert C. Gamble   d. 1957
  Marriage	16 Dec 1927	Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
  Children	1. R.F. Gamble
  Family ID	F7875	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2008

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 20 Jul 1905 - Fremont, Newaygo, Michigan, USA Marriage - 16 Dec 1927 - Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  (Research):"Centerville; Margaret (Peg) GAMBLE, 84, 235 E. Main St., died Aug. 17, 1989, at Fairview Medical Care Facility. "She was born July 20, 1905, in Fremont, a daughter of Glen and Joan (FOREMAN) BISBEE. "On Dec. 16, 1927, she married Robert C. GAMBLE, in Kalamazoo. He died in 1957. "She graduated from Western Michigan University in 1926 and began her teaching career in Hastings and Kalamazoo. She has been a Centreville resident since 1931, when she and her husband opened Gamble's Pharmacy. She taught kindergarten in Centreville for 27 years. "She was a member, elder and pianist of the Presbyterian Church, Three Rivers, and member of the National, Michigan and Centreville Education Associations, the Tenure Committee, the Ladies Library Association, Kalamazoo, and Beta Tau Delta Sorority Kalamazoo, she had been faculty advisor to the Future Teachers of American Club, served on the St. Joseph County Tuberculosis Association Board of Directors and was secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. She also was chairman of the Centreville Red Cross Drive, on the Council for St. Joseph County Department of Social Services, was a volunteer for Fairview Medical Care Facility, on the Township Library Board, on the Advisory Committee-COA Widow's Support Group, with the Three Rivers Hospital Auxiliary Gift Shop and for 13 years was legislative chairman of the Michigan Association of Retired School Personnel. She had organized and directed a robed junior choir at the Centreville United Methodist Church. In 1973, she was honored as Centreville Woman of the Year. "Surviving are one son, Robert F. Gamble, Centreville; tow granddaughters, Christine GAMBLE and Nancy HARTMAN, both of Centreville; four great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Arthur (Virginia) GUENTHER, Grand Rapids; one sister-in-law; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and two granddaughters, Sue GAMBLE and Mary LUNG. "Cremation has taken place. Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Centreville United Methodist Church with Richard Cripe officiating. Burial of the cremains will be in Prairie River Cemetery, Centreville. Arrangements were handled by the Rexrode-Eley Funeral Home, Centreville. "Memorials may be directed to the Nottawa Township Library Building Fund. Envelopes are available at the funeral home."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), pp. 217. [S31] Sturgis Daily Journal, (Sturgis, Michigan), August, 1989, Margaret (Peg) Gamble Obituary.