Hello Friends and Family of Margie MacGowan. My name is Betty Tanaka and this is a fond memory which I have of Margie. When I first left home in 1962, I headed to Calgary and to my first job. I eventually moved to the YWCA in Calgary and that is where I met Margie and my other "Y" friends. We enjoyed many activities together. One was to head to the Depression Coffee House to hear some upcoming entertainers. We saw the Irish Rovers and Joni Mitchell there. We all loved music and to dance. I grew up in the sunny Okanagan with many lakes but it was in Calgary, Alberta of all places, for me to learn to snorkel and scuba dive. Margie, Joyce and I decided to join the YWCA Dolphins Diving Club. We made our own wet suits and purchased our fins, marks and snorkels. It was great fun to meet up with other diving clubs in Alberta. We had diving meets at various lake locations. It was a great way for young people to meet new friends from other places. My greatest memory of Margie and our diving days, was the dive up at Lake Edith, near Jasper, Alberta. We had a potato peeling contest........underwater !!! Well, we all put on our diving gear and dove underwater to peel our potatoes. Everyone was finished but there was no Margie. We waited and waited and then finally, she emerged. She had taken her time to make sure all the eyes of the potatoes were removed !!! Oh, did we ever have a good belly laugh about that one. She was one gutsy lady........she did not know how to swim but learned to dive right along side of us. Margie, you are very missed by your "Y" friends and will live in our hearts forever. Your children have been such great support and comfort for you in the past few years. I know you are having new adventures up in heaven and smiling down on us today.