Margaret "Meg" Sanchez

Margaret (Meg) Sanchez was born in Carlinville, Illinois to Jay Howard Gage and Margaret Elizabeth (Ross) Gage and along with her younger sister, Mary Agnes, grew up in their family home which had belonged to prior generations.  After high school, Meg began her education at Blackburn Junior College but this was delayed due to WWII and she enlisted in the Navy as a member of the WAVES in 1945.  She was discharged while based in Quantico, Virginia at the end of the war in August 1946 and resumed her education at DePauw University in Indiana where she attained her Masters in the Arts.  Her interest was in Biology due to her father’s background and she entered Northwestern University in 1949 to get further her education.  Our father, Santiago (Jim) Sanchez, was in medical school there and a lab assistant for one of her courses.  They courted for about a year and married in her family home in Carlinville on June 25, 1950.  Ultimately, they moved to Temple in 1960 as Jim began working at Scott & White Hospital.

Meg was a long-time member of Grace Presbyterian Church, a member of the Medical Auxiliary and active member of the Cultural Activities Center in Temple.  She volunteered for various organizations over the years and her last volunteer activity was with Meals on Wheels, a Grace Presbyterian Church program.  She had a lifelong interest in the arts and history and traveled with Jim for years, both in the States and abroad, enjoying multicultural activities that these travels provided.  Meg was an avid reader and belonged to a local book club for many years and also loved to swim.  She belonged to a women’s group who swam at Mary Hardin Baylor in Belton, Texas for several years.  She and her husband traveled to Colorado yearly for a month long stay in the fall as they loved to hike and fish. 

Meg is survived by her husband, Jim Sanchez, her three children, Thomas Sanchez, MegAnn Chancellor and Betsi Longoria, six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.  Meg was a wonderful and loving wife and mother and will be missed dearly.  Her family was very fortunate to have her in their lives for so many years.

The family would like to thank the staff at Mercy House and Kindred Care Hospice for their loving attention to our mother. 

Funeral services will be held at Grace Presbyterian Church in Temple on Thursday, September 13, 2018 at 11:00AM.   Burial to follow at Bellwood Memorial Park.