1916-2007

Services for Marion "Mac" Maginnis are 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Fairfield. A native of Highmore, S.D., he lived in Solano County since 1966 where he worked for Moore Tractor Company of Fairfield for 17 years, retiring in 1983. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Solano Irrigation District 1988-2003 and Board President for the last 13 years, a more than 50-year member of The Masonic Lodge and was a Past Master. He also held memberships in The Scottish Rite, Royal Arch and I.O.O.F. A Navy Veteran of World War II, he enlisted on December 8, 1941, as a radio technician, second class, and volunteered for submarine service and spent the war years on submarines in the Pacific making seven war patrols. He was honorably discharged in November of 1945 as chief radio technician. Marion operated his own garage and farm equipment business from 1946 to 1965. He is survived by his wife of 65 years, Bette, of Fairfield; daughters and their husbands, Ann and William Lafair of Tracyton, Wash., Jane and Wendell Potter of Sacramento, Amy Maginnis-Honey and husband, Jim, of Suisun City, and Julie and Steve Vucuverich of Suisun; two sons, John and his fiancee, Alicia, of Fairfield, and James and wife, Kathryn, of Virginia; one sister, Ina Mae Meininger of Oak Harbor, Wash.; 14 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and three sisters. Burial will be private in Fairmont Mausoleum, Fairfield, with Bryan-Braker Funeral Home handling the affairs. Memorials preferred to Shriner's Hospital, P.O. Box 21-4477, Sacramento, Calif., 95821-0477.
Reprinted from material published in the Daily Republic on 8/23/2007.

For our Readers, It looks like a spike in literacy. 67 % of them plan to read a book rather than watch TV. A distant second is watching the Presidential debates at 22%. The rest will watch skinny Japanese people eat their weight in hot dogs.

She was in the backyard, say it was a little past nine

When her prince pulled up, a white pickup truck

Her folks should of seen it comin' it was only just a matter of time

Plenty old enough, and you can't stop love.

She stuck a note on the screen door "Sorry but I got to go"

That was all she wrote, her mama's heart was broke

That was all she wrote, so the story goes

(Chorus)

Now her daddy's in the kitchen starin' out the window, scratchin' and a rackin' his brains

How could 18 years just up'n and walk away?

Our little pony-tail girl grown up to be a woman

Now she's gone in the blink of an eye

She left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin' out on the line

Now don't you wonder what the preacher's gonna preach about Sunday mornin'

Nothing quite like this has happened here before

Well he must have been a looker, a smooth talkin' son of gun

For such a grounded girl to just up and run

Course you can't fence time, and you can't stop love

(2nd Chorus) Now all the bittys in the beauty shop gossip goin' non stop

Sippin on pink lemonade How could 18 years just get up and walk away?

Our little pony-tail girl grown up to be a woman Now she's gone in the blink of an eye

She left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin' out on the line

YEEEHOO!

(3rd chorus) She's got her pretty little bare feet hangin' out the window

And they're headed up to Vegas tonight

How could 18 years just get up and walk away?

Our little pony-tail girl grown up to be a woman

Now she's gone in the blink of an eye

She left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin' out on the line

She left the suds in the bucket and the clothes hangin' out on the line

She was in the backyard, say it was a little past nine

When her prince pulled up, a white pick up truck

Plenty old enough, and you can't stop love

No you can't fence time, and you can't stop love---