* Margaret Fowler; Early USC Law Graduate

Margaret Blanche McGrath Fowler, 100, an early USC law graduate and a philanthropist. Born Nov. 7, 1899, in the Oklahoma Territory, she came to Los Angeles with her family as a child. Her father, Warren F. McGrath, became a real estate and oil field developer in Long Beach during the 1920s. Fowler graduated from Occidental College and in 1924 became one of the first female graduates of USC Law School. She was the first elected president of USC’s Town and Gown organization and contributed to its scholarship fund. Fowler also established scholarships in the name of her late mother, Charlotte Strong McGrath, at USC, and of her late husband, Dr. John Davey Fowler, at St. Louis University School of Medicine. A Beverly Hills debutante, she married Fowler during World War II when he was a captain in the Army Medical Corps. On Oct. 17 in San Marino.