Charles Rhett McGinty
Summary
Born: 14 November 1945, Beaumont, TX
Died: 27 April 2018, Austin, TX
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27 January 1968 - 27 April 2018
Children:
Patrick (1970)
Ian (1975)
Niall (1978)
Detail
Early Life
Charles Rhett McGinty was born on 14 November 1945 in Beaumont, TX to Maxie and John Walter McGinty. He spent his first twelve years in Silsbee, where his father worked for the Santa Fe Railroad and his mother was primarily a homemaker, holding occasional part time jobs.
We lived on a small family farm next to my maternal grandparents. My Grandfather retired as a railroad engineer and after he retired bought the ten acres outside of Silsbee where we lived. It was a family farm in the sense that it produced food for our family. My grandfather grew about an acre of corn providing fresh corn to eat, but more importantly providing feed for chickens, so we could have eggs for breakfast and fried chicken for Sunday dinner. There was always a jersey milk cow to be milked to provide milk and a calf born every Spring to be butchered in January to stock the chest freezer. The vegetable garden, that my grandparents and Mom worked, provided fresh tomatoes, greens, peas, beans, and okra during the spring and summer and the surplus was canned or frozen for the winter months.
to clean up
- John Walter Jr
- Marilyn
- Charles Rhett, and
- Bobby.
He married Carolyn Matthews on 27 January 1968 in San Antonio, TX.
They had three children, Patrick (1970), Ian (1975) and Niall (1978).
He died on 27 April 2018 in Austin, TX.