Margaret Jo McBride Hastings, 82, of Baytown, TX, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. She was born on May 24, 1928, in New Baden, TX, daughter of Elbert McBride and Nora Mae Becktold McBride Kirk Forbus.
She attended high school in Franklin, TX, before moving to Baytown, and graduating from Robert E. Lee High School. She owned Jo’s Beauty Shop, and also worked as a secretary at Northside Baptist Church, San Jacinto Memorial Park and Earthman Memory Gardens, retiring from Memory Gardens. In her 50’s, she began painting, writing poetry and playing the ukulele.
She was preceded in death by her husband, William B. Hastings.
She is survived by her daughter, Cathy Jo Hastings Burgin and her husband Henry N. “Chip” Burgin; grandson, Christopher Milton Burgin; granddaughter, Colleen Elizabeth Burgin; sisters, Gladys Smitherman and Winnie Hillin and husband J.W. Hillin; nieces, Janelle Smitherman Fears and husband Robert, Dianne Smitherman Harris and husband Jerry, Mary Ann Hillin Cote and husband Pete; nephews, David Smitherman, James Hillin and wife Susan.
The family wishes to thank Dr. Jack Alpert and the nurses of Swan Manor and Faith Community Hospice for their care and kindness.
Arrangements under the direction of Earthman Baytown Funeral Home, Baytown, TX.
SHARE OBITUARY
v.1.8.18