Margaret Buday Summers

S1, US Navy, Margaret Buday Summers

Born: June 10, 1923
Died: August 12, 2012

Female Veteran | US Navy | World War II
French Funerals and Cremations. “Obituary for Carmela Blumenthal,” June 21, 2018

Burial Site: SFNC, Section 20, Site 1457  

Margaret Buday Summers enlisted in the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II. 1 She was born in Petoskey, Michigan to Katharina Rajniak and John Buday. 2 Both of her parents were immigrants from Hungary, arriving in the United States in 1922. 3 She attended Lincoln High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 4 In 1940, the family was living in Cook Island, Illinois. 5 In September of 1945, she married James B. Summers Sr. in Arlington, Virginia. 1, 6 They had seven children. 1, 2 She had lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Grand Forks, North Dakota, and Estancia, New Mexico. 2

Images & Documents

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Summers, Margaret Buday D1

“Summers,” Albuquerque Journal, September 2, 1995, B-12.

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Summers, Margaret Buday D2

“Summers, Margaret,” Albuquerque Journal, August 15, 2012, 17.

Notes:

1. “Summers,” Albuquerque Journal, September 2, 1995, B-12.
2. “Summers, Margaret,” Albuquerque Journal, August 15, 2012, 17.
3. Illinois, U.S., Federal Naturalization Records, 1856-1991 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Ancestry.com.
4. “U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012”; School Name: Lincoln High School; Year: 1936. Ancestry.com.
5. Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
6. Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Featured Image:

“Obituary for Margaret Summers.” Harris-Hanlon Mortuary. Accessed March 17, 2023. https://www.harris-hanlonmortuary.com/obituary/1558113.

 

Prepared by Sue Ruth, Ph.D., Central New Mexico Community College