Mary McGuire

Graveside services for Mary Lou McGuire, 96-year-old former Buffalo resident who passed away February 27^th in Harrison, Arkansas will be held Saturday, March 18^th at 2:00 p.m. in Willow Grove Cemetery with Father Jim Heiser officiating. A visitation will be held at the Harness Funeral Home Chapel on Friday from 1:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. Donations in Mrs. McGuire’s memory may be made to Hospice. Online condolences may be made at www.harnessfuneralhome.com.

Mary Lou McGuire was born on August 17, 1926, in Macomb, Illinois to Oral and Beulah Smith. She grew up and went to school near Industry, Illinois, and graduated from Industry High School with the class of 1944. During World War II she worked at Camp Ellis, an Army Camp in that area.  After the war, the camp closed and the employees were transferred to the National Guard Supply Depot in Springfield, Illinois.  She was married on December 15, 1956, in Illinois to Michael McGuire.  After Michael’s graduation from Barber College, they moved with their two children Rebecca and Barbara to Carlinville, Illinois where Mike opened a Barber Shop.  In 1972 the family moved to Loveland, Colorado where they lived for twenty-two years, and Mary Lou worked at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.  After 20 years with the University, she retired and shortly thereafter she and Michael moved to Buffalo, Wyoming.  Michael passed away in 2008 and Mary Lou moved to Harrison, Arkansas to be near her daughter and her family.  Mary Lou continued living in Harrison until her death.

She is survived by one daughter Becky Hathaway and her husband Robert of Harrison, Arkansas; one stepdaughter Barbara Harper of Houston, Texas; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and one sister Sara Baldner.