Margaret Goldsborough Bigger

Margaret Goldsborough Bigger, 84, died Sunday, October 1, 2023. Margaret was born on July 11, 1939 in Baltimore, MD to the late John Carter Goldsborough and Mary Griffin Goldsborough, and moved to Charlotte six weeks later.

After attending Eastover and Myers Park High, she went to Hollins College two years before graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1961. That summer, she married Richard Andrew Bigger and moved to Charlottesville; where he went to UVA Law School and she worked for WINA radio station.

When they returned to Charlotte, Margaret served as a nearly fulltime volunteer at Seigle Ave. Presbyterian Church, sister church of Myers Park Presbyterian, for 25 years.

An author/editor of 24 books, Margaret Bigger specialized in two genres. As an author: true anecdotes on numerous humorous topics. As an editor, she has worked with the UNC-Charlotte, The Levine Museum of the New South and A. Borough Books, editing anthologies of history-from-life-experience told by the people who lived it.

Best known for her wedding humor books, Margaret appeared on 11 national TV talk shows (such as Maury Povich, Sally Jessy Raphael and EXTRA), at least 60 regional TV news shows, as well as nearly 500 radio shows nationwide, including NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

Since 1989, she taught Recalling Memories for Posterity through Queens College, Shepherd’s Center, Central Piedmont Community College, Elderhostel and numerous retirement homes in three states. In recent years, her six-week version has been a Charlotte Writers’ Club annual fund-raiser.

Margaret was also very active at Myers Park Presbyterian Church and as the communicator for Myers Park High School’s Class of ’57.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her loving husband of 61 years, Randy Bigger; daughter and son-in-law, Joy and Galen Sanderson, four grandsons: Chas Moore, Andrew, Adam and Ryan Christenbury; great-grandson, Archer Blue Christenbury; two almost-adopted daughters, Carolyn Arey and her husband Tim and son J.D.; and Mary McDaniel, daughter Courtney and granddaughter Kelsie.

A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 in the Chapel of McEwen Funeral Home, 10500 Park Road, Charlotte.

The family will receive friends from 12:00-12:45 pm prior to the service.

Burial will follow the funeral service at Evergreen Cemetery.