Margie Jean Mckean-Junkins

Margie Jean McKean-Junkins
August 11, 1933 – April 17, 2024

Margorie “Margie” Lois McKean was born on August 11, 1933, in Wilton California, to Charles James and
Hattie Eva Smith-McKean. She passed peacefully surrounded by her family in Carmichael, CA, at the age
of 90, from the debilitating disease of Alzheimer’s.

Margie grew up on the Wilton Rancheria, an Indian Reservation in Wilton, CA, and was a member of the
Mewuk Indian Community of Wilton Rancheria. She spent her youth playing along the Cosumnes River
riding horses, swimming, and just enjoying the country life. She attended the Dillard School in Wilton from
1st to 8 th grade in a one room classroom. She graduated from Elk Grove High School.

During and after high school. she spent her time working in the tomato, onion, and hop fields as a farm
worker. In 1953, she moved to Carmichael where she met her first husband, Bobby Gage, and had two
children, Kenneth, and Kimberly.

Then, Margie met her next love and married Raymond C. Hitchcock “Big Chuck” and had son, Raymond
Jr. “Little Chuckie.” She loved and enjoyed the outdoors, hiking, camping, and fishing. Roughing it in
Silver Fork Campground, near Kyburz, became a yearly vacation spot. She loved bowling and joined a
league with friends, where Country Club Lanes became a regular hangout. She also had a love for
dancing to country music, which her husband played in a band on a regular basis. Later, Margie married
James Junkins and gained Alice, Robert, and Joseph from the union. Jim and Margie happily lived and
loved their life in Carmichael for nearly 40 years, until his passing from cancer in 2020.

Mom spent her time as a homemaker, raising her children and great grandchildren. She loved baseball
and her Oakland A’s. She always wanted to go to games every year. She later grew a love for hockey and
a yearly trip to see the San Jose Sharks became mandatory until she couldn’t make the trips anymore
due to her health. Her love for her children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren was self-evident, as
she glowed with smiles of amazement. 90 years is a gift, and she made the most of it.

Margie is survived by her brothers Wayne (Delinda), Clifford (Cindy), Paul (Claire) McKean, and Dickey
Daniels, sons Kenneth (Kari) Gage, Raymond (Hedi) Hitchcock, Robert and Joseph (Susan) Junkins, and
daughter Kimberly (Russ) Gage, grandchildren Mariah, Ashley, Sarah, Grace, Serena, and Dylan, and
great grandchildren Aleigha and Zion, her loving little dog Poppy, as well as her special friend Lillie
Borders and her son Brody. She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, sister Florence,
brothers Fred, Kenneth, Eddie, and Lloyd, and grandchild Joshua Gage.

Graveside services will be held on Friday, May 17, 2024, at the Hicksville Cemetery in Galt, beginning at
10:00 a.m. to first honor her brother, Charles Ivan “Eddie” McKean, who passed in January 21,2023,
followed by her services. Reception to follow at the Wilton Rancheria Tribal Office on Kent Street in Elk
Grove. May the Lord be waiting, and all her relatives be there to greet her again, youthful, pain free, and
at peace.