Charles Rhett McGinty
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| Born | November 14, 1945 Beaumont, TX (map) |
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| Died | April 27, 2018 (aged 72) Austin, TX (map) |
| Father | John Walter McGinty |
| Mother | Maxie McGinty |
| Siblings | John Walter Jr, Marilyn, Bobby |
| Spouse | Carolyn Ann Matthews (m. 1968–2018) (50 years) |
| Children | Patrick, Ian, Niall |
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. He wrote this about his early life:
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.
At the age of twelve his father was transferred by the railroad to a job in Galveston and the family moved to Texas City, where he completed middle and high school. In 1964 he enrolled in Texas A&M.
Adult Years
His father was transferred again in 1965 to Topeka, Kansas and in the summer of 1966, while visiting family on summer break he met Carolyn Ann Matthews. They were married on on 27 January 1968 in San Antonio, TX.
