MARGARET PICKERING
195? - 19??
CN STATISTICIAN 
GSW


FORT WORTH -- Margaret Adams Pickering, a retired advertising account executive, died Sunday, Dec. 21, 1997, in Fort Worth.
Memorial service: 11 a.m. Saturday at Chapel of the Good Shepherd at University Christian Church, 
where she was a longtime member. The Rev. Charles Sanders will officiate.
Memorials: Humane Society of North Texas or to a charity of choice.
Margaret Adams Pickering was born in Fort Worth and was the daughter of George S. Adams Sr. and Eula Wood Adams. 
She was a third-generation native of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, being the great-granddaughter of Dr. Benjamin Franklin Barkley, 
a pioneer Tarrant County physician who came from Kentucky to Birdville in 1856.
Margaret graduated from Paschal High School and from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor of journalism degree. 
During World War II, she was an FAA-trained air traffic controller, and after returning to Fort Worth in 1946, 
she was employed as a commercial artist and in advertising for the Evans and LeMay advertising agency. 
Later she worked for Central Airlines as a statistician at its Fort Worth headquarters.
In 1958, she married E.H. "Pick" Pickering, a widely known aviation consultant, and together they manufactured and marketed 
the WREN, an early STOL aircraft designed and built at Meacham Field in Fort Worth. 
After his death in 1970, she began working at Tarrant County Junior College, again doing advertising and statistical work for the college.
After retirement from TCJC, she taught beginning and advanced painting and sketching at the South Campus as a volunteer 
instructor in the Senior Education Program. As a well-known local artist, her paintings of western scenes of Texas, New 
Mexico and Colorado hang in many offices and establishments in the local area.
She was a member of the Aviation and Space Writers Association and the Fort Worth Advertising Club. 
For many years, she wrote a weekly column on recreational vehicles, travel and camping for the `Star-Telegram.' 
Survivors: Her brother and sister-in- law, Scott and Carolyn Adams of Fort Worth; nieces, Suzanne Adams Hammond of 
Huntsville, Ala., and Carol Ann Adams of Austin; three grandnephews; one grandniece; and her stepsister-in- law, Judy Hazlewood.
Found on internet
(6/25/99)

MARGARET A PICKERING  
Born 04 Dec 1918 
Died 21 Dec 1997 
Age 79
At 76134 Fort Worth, TX
SSN issued in Texas
-SSDI
(3/18/02) 

Alum News
Obituaries 1997
Margaret Adams Pickering '40 of Fort Worth, on Dec. 21. 
Margaret, a third-generation Fort Worth native, 
was an FAA-trained air traffic controller during World War II, 
a commercial artist and advertiser for the Evans and Lemay advertising agency, 
a statistician for Central Airlines, 
a recreation and travel columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram 
and a well-known local artist of western scenes. 
With her late husband, E.H., Margaret manufactured and marketed the WREN, an early STOL aircraft. 
She was a member of the Aviation and Space Writers Association and the Fort Worth Advertising Club. 
-http://www.magazine.tcu.edu/tcumagazine/articles/1998-01-CN-OB.htm
(6/23/04)

Very little info on Margaret other than the obituary and 1959 CN Skywriter article.
She must have been quite a lady to be an air traffic controller in WWII.
I could not find any other references to her in my CN newsletters.
-Jake Lamkins
(10/2/11)