- Date Of Death: February 13, 2017
- State: Alabama
MARGARET H. REW, 86, of Birmingham, Ala. passed away in Charlotte, N.C. on Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. She was born in Birmingham on Sept. 24, 1930 and graduated from Sumter County High School in York, Ala., where she met her husband of 63 years, Milton “Mel” Levern Rew, whom she married in 1946. As a young wife and mother, Margaret worked tirelessly to put her husband through Auburn University and became a self-taught expert in etiquette and entertaining to support him throughout his distinguished career with DuPont, creating and maintaining a home for her family in each of their residencies around the globe including Northern Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, and Brazil. The Rews ultimately returned to their native Alabama and settled in the Birmingham area, where they were actively involved with the Homewood Church of Christ and Decatur Highway Church of Christ for many years.
