My father Kenneth Jr. (1918-1993) had a younger brother married to Margaret's older sister Betty (1914-1993). In the 1980s, my career took me to the University of Michigan, at which time I would have lunch with Margaret 2-3x/year, in her apartment in a high rise on Detroit's Jefferson Ave. I thought of Margaret as an aunt, and she thought of me as a nephew. Our conversations were curiously warm and ranged widely, as Margaret was smart. She was retired when I knew her, having worked many years for an art dealer in downtown Detroit. Ralph (1891-1986), the father of Margaret and Betty, divorced their mother Hazel (1890-1945) in 1932, a very unusual action for the time. Ralph went on to bury two more spouses. Margaret and Betty remained quite loyal to their father, who died as a result of a car crash near Inkster. Detroit real estate was his career. He retired a few years before the 1967 race riot which began Detroit's catastrophic decline.
Margaret never married, had no children, and my Aunt Betty died childless and intestate. This led to regrettable misunderstandings that chilled relations between the Conzelmans and the Meguires. The sole descendants of Margaret and Betty are the two children of their sister Ruth Conzelman Simms, a translator of the Argentine author Borges.
Margaret never married, had no children, and my Aunt Betty died childless and intestate. This led to regrettable misunderstandings that chilled relations between the Conzelmans and the Meguires. The sole descendants of Margaret and Betty are the two children of their sister Ruth Conzelman Simms, a translator of the Argentine author Borges.
