Margaret Ann Patton Forney was born in Columbus, Ohio on November 18, 1925 to Louella May Carroll Patton and Grover C. Patton. She graduated from Central High School in Columbus in 1943. She attended business college and went to work for the Internal Revenue Service at the age of 18. She married John Wilbur Forney on May 19, 1956. She gave birth to their only daughter, Patricia Ann, on February 16, 1960. John and Margaret moved to Huntsville, Alabama in 1963. In 1968, Margaret went to work as a secretary for NASA Mission Operations at the Marshall Space Flight Center. During her 23 -year career at NASA, she worked on numerous Apollo missions, including the Lunar Landing. She retired in 1993 at the age of 67.
Margaret Ann Patton Forney was preceded in death by her husband John. She is survived by her daughter Patricia (Forney Mark), son-in-law Michael Mark and granddaughter Sheridan Elizabeth Mark.
