Dr. Margaret Davis Cameron (“Peggy”), was born April 25, 1920, to Margaret and Clarence Cameron in Montgomery, Texas. She died Tuesday, September 19, 2006, at her home in Beaumont, Texas of cancer. She was graduated from San Jacinto High School, Houston, in 1937. She received a B.A. degree in chemistry from Texas State College for Women in 1942, the M.S. in chemistry from the University of Houston in 1948, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Tulane University in 1951. Following the baccalaureate degree, she served in the U.S. Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant USNR. While in the navy she was an air navigation instructor. Upon receiving the Ph.D. she was a Fulbright Scholar and a Sir William Ramsay Fellow at the University of Leeds, Leeds, England, and then was a post-doctoral fellow in chemistry at Ohio State University. Dr. Cameron worked for three years as a research chemist for the Monsanto Chemical Company. In 1956 she joined the chemistry faculty of Lamar State College of Technology (now Lamar University). In 1972 she was named Regents’ Professor of Chemistry, and in 1990 retired as Professor Emerita of Chemistry. She was pre-deceased by her parents and her sister, Eugenia Cameron Adams. In addition to her friends, she is survived be a niece, Virginia Adams Burke of Galveston.
Cremation arrangements are held under the direction of Broussard’s Crematorium.
