MacGill, Margaret M., 1919-

A lifelong resident of the Washington area, Margaret M. MacGill is the only child of Ernest Costello O?Meara, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, and the former Bertha May Beach, an employee of Kann?s Department Store and rooming house manager. Raised in Petworth at 528 Taylor Street, NW, MacGill graduated from Roosevelt High School and the Washington School for Secretaries before beginning a career as a secretary. At the time these diaries and scrapbook were kept, MacGill lived with her parents, working first for a local insurance firm, Ellett and Short (located at 15th and H Streets, NW), and later taking a job with the U.S. Air Force ca. 1948 (reporting to temporary buildings in the 3900 block of Wisconsin Avenue, NW, and later to the Pentagon). MacGill married Leon Herbert MacGill in the early 1950s and moved to Arlington, Va. She continued to work for the military as a secretary until her retirement in the 1970s.