Mary Jean Sangren, 86, of Harrison, died Thursday, Nov. 5 (2020). Funeral arrangements by Holt Memorial Chapel.
Mary Jean (Meginnes) Sangren, 86, of Harrison, died Thursday, Nov. 5 (2020). Funeral arrangements by Holt Memorial Chapel.
She was born in Alhambra, California, Dec. 25, 1933, Her parents are the late Clifford Charles and Susan Jean (Peters) Meginnes.
Her family moved to a 240 acre farm at the fork of the Little Buffalo River and the Big Buffalo River in Newton County in 1951. The following year she graduated from Jasper High School. She and David Sangren married Jan. 3, 1953, and in 1957, they moved to Harrison, to raise their four children. In 1980, the Sangrens moved to a farm south of Harrison. She retired from Oberman-Levi Strauss Co. in 1989.
She was amember of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Levi Strauss Retirees, Buffalo River Back Country Horsemen, Harrison Roundup Club, the Arkansas Trail Riders Association, the Arkansas Chapter of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association, and the Cattlemen's Association. She was a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow.
She is preceded in death by her brother, Charley Willard Meginnes.
She is survived by her husband of 67 years, David Nathan Sangren; her children; Susan Jean Sangren, of Harrison, Kathy Norene Sparkes, of Baytown, Texas; Kenneth David Sangren, of Garland, Texas; Larry Charles Sangren, of Garland, Texas; five grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other relatives.
