Ms. Gwendolyn McBride

Gwendolyn McBride was born on June 21, 1957, in Houston Texas. She was the 8th of 12 children in the family of David and Lucille McBride.

She was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church beginning with Father Bosman and The Church of Incarnation. She was actively serving at Hope Episcopal Church in the vestry and as a member of the choir.

Gwen attended schools in the Aldine Independent School District. She graduated from George Washington Carver High School with the Class of 1975. She attended Texas Southern University. She also received her cosmetology license.

During her teen and young adult years Gwen worked at Exxon and Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital. Later she chose to spend 30 years of her career with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority of Harris County (METRO) in Houston. She began as a bus operator in 1991 and retired as a supervisor of the Fallbrook station in 2020.

Gwen began her love of gardening by working with her siblings in the large family garden that helped many in the Acres Homes Community. She continued gardening on a smaller scale as one of her hobbies that also included cooking soul food and bargain shopping. She loved buying toys and outfits for her nieces and nephews or whoever could use the deal that was too good to pass up!

After retirement, Gwendolyn enjoyed spending fun and relaxing times with her siblings and favorite niece Wendolyn, second to bargain shopping, it was her favorite thing to do.

Gwendolyn is predeceased by her parents, David Sr. And Lucille McBride; Siblings, Betty Jo Caldwell, David McBride Jr, Melissa McBride, Joseph McBride, Sharion Marshall, and Vivian Routt; Nephews, Jerome Davis and Kenneth Davis.

She is survived by her sisters Rachel (Roosevelt) Davis, Cynthia McBride, Sylvia McBride, Marilyn McBride, and Michelle (Robert) Shepherd; Nieces and nephews, Wendolyn (Charles) Smith, Dwaine (Evelyn) Davis, Gerald (Tonya) Davis, Luchelle (Ronald) Hunter Lourine Davis-Cook, Renita Davis-Robinson, Terrance (Tameka) McBride, Latresha McBride, Birdie (Kenyatta) Jones, Andrea Marshall, Lucinda McBride, David Marshall, Jeremy McBride and many other family and friends.