IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Marjorie Elaine
Mcgourty
January 26, 1932 – November 17, 2022
Saratoga Springs, NY - Marjorie Elaine Senecal-McGourty of Prestwick Chase, joined the love of her life, her deceased husband, Emmett L. McGourty on, November 17, 2022. She was 90. Born in Saratoga Springs on January 26, 1932, she was the 2 nd daughter of the late Dewey C. and Madeline L. (Ovitt) Senecal Sr. Margie, known to her many nieces and nephews and their children and grandchildren as "Aunt Margie", she attended Saratoga Springs High School, where she was a member of the class of 1950. Margie, while in High School and for some years after, worked as a saleslady at the Fashion Shop on Broadway in Saratoga Springs, where she further developed her "Brand" and became a "Fashionista", decades before those terms came into vogue. She then served as Executive Secretary to the Athletic Director of Skidmore College for several years. She moved with her husband to Schenectady and became Executive Secretary to the Athletic Director of Union College, before becoming Business Manager of the new Achilles Rink at Union College under Ned Harkness. Subsequently Margie served as Executive Secretary in the Patent & Legal Department at the GE, R&D Center in Niskayuna before retiring.
In addition to her parents, Margie was predeceased by her husband and love of her life, Emmett L. McGourty, her sister, Leona M. Senecal-Rossi and her brother Richard H. Senecal. Her niece Patricia Rossi-Farone, and Nephews: Nicholas Rossi, Jr., Robert Rossi, and Thomas Senecal.
Survivors include her older brother, Dewey C. Senecal, Sr., of Myrtle Beach, SC, her younger brother Wayne T. Senecal, (Susan), of Saratoga Springs; nieces: Cathy Rossi-King, (Kevin), of Syracuse, Danielle S. Senecal of Tucson, AZ, Michelle-Lee Senecal, (Jonathan) of North Tonawanda, Tina Senecal of Greenfield, Susie Senecal-Hotte of Springhill, FL; nephews: Michael Rossi (Marta), and Timothy Rossi, (Diane), both of Saratoga Springs, Dewey C. Senecal, Jr., (Rochelle) Robert Senecal, (Kathleen), both of Spring Hill, FL; and her many loving grand & great-grand-nieces, and grand & great-grand-nephews.
At Margie's instructions funeral services were Private at the William J. Burke & Sons/Bussing & Cunniff, Inc., Funeral Homes, 628 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, (burkefuneralhome.com). Burial was celebrated privately on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, in the plot with her husband, Emmett at St. Peter's Cemetery, West Avenue, Saratoga Springs.
Online remembrances may be made at www.burkefuneralhome.com
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