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'''Margaret Clark Formby''' (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2003),<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=December 20, 2009; under pay wall}}</ref> was the daughter of southwest [[Texas]] ranchers who founded the '''National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/|title=Home: Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|publisher=National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> in the basement of the public library in Hereford in Deaf Smith County, Texas, before she relocated the collection to [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaretf>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>
'''Margaret Clark Formby''' (July 12, 1929 – April 10, 2003),<ref name=obit/> was the daughter of southwest [[Texas]] ranchers who founded the '''National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cowgirl.net/|title=Home: Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum|publisher=National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref> in the basement of the public library in Hereford in Deaf Smith County, Texas, before she relocated the collection to [[Fort Worth]].<ref name=margaretf>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/20/us/margaret-formby-73-dies-began-cowgirl-hall-of-fame.html|author=Douglas Martin|title=Margaret Formby, 73, Dies; Began Cowgirl Hall of Fame"|publisher=''[[The New York Times]]''|date=April 20, 2003|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
In 1982, she was appointed to the Texas State Committee on Teenage Pregnancy. She served as president of Friends of the Library and the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech from 1986 to 1987 and was a board member of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech from 1983 to 1985, having worked to develop the "Cowboy Symposium" held there each September.<ref name=obit/> In 2000, she donated $450 to the [[Republican National Committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013215/http://watchdog.net/contrib/79045/margaret_formby|title=Margaret Formby from zip code 79045|publisher=watchdog.net|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>
In 1982, she was appointed to the Texas State Committee on Teenage Pregnancy. She served as president of Friends of the Library and the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech from 1986 to 1987 and was a board member of the National Ranching Heritage Center at Texas Tech from 1983 to 1985, having worked to develop the "Cowboy Symposium" held there each September.<ref name=obit/> In 2000, she donated $450 to the [[Republican National Committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012013215/http://watchdog.net/contrib/79045/margaret_formby|title=Margaret Formby from zip code 79045|publisher=watchdog.net|accessdate=November 18, 2019}}</ref>
==Death and legacy==
==Death and legacy==
Margaret Formby died in her Hereford home after falling in her bathroom. Her body was found by her housekeeper.<ref name=margaretf/> She and her husband had five children, Larry C. "Chip" Formby (born 1953) who works at KPAN, and his wife, Lisa, Marshall Clark Formby and wife, Betty, of [[San Antonio]], Ben Formby and Scott C. Formby (born 1961) and wife, Kathy, all of New York City, and the late Linda Kay Formby. She had four grandchildren and a sister, Mary Beth Clark Powell of Hereford.<ref name=margaretf/> Formby was a niece by marriage of former state senator and highway commissioner, [[Marshall Formby]]. She was a cousin by marriage of former state Senator [[Robert Duncan]] of Lubbock.
Margaret Formby died in her Hereford home after falling in her bathroom. Her body was found by her housekeeper.<ref name=margaretf/> She and her husband had five children, Larry C. "Chip" Formby (born 1953) who works at KPAN, and his wife, Lisa, Marshall Clark Formby and wife, Betty, of [[San Antonio]], Ben Formby and Scott C. Formby (born 1961) and wife, Kathy, all of New York City, and the late Linda Kay Formby. She had four grandchildren and a sister, Mary Beth Clark Powell of Hereford.<ref name=margaretf/> Formby was a niece by marriage of former state senator and highway commissioner, [[Marshall Formby]]. She was a cousin by marriage of former state Senator [[Robert Duncan]] of Lubbock.