Marguerite Edna Hannah McCreery died peacefully in her sleep Jan. 15 at the Rose Meadows Elder Care Home in San Jose, under the care of Pathways Hospice. She was 99.

A former Los Altos Hills resident, Mrs. McCreery was the wife of former Stanford University football star Hal McCreery, who passed away in 1963. The McCreerys were friends with Ernie Nevers, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn “Pop” Warner, Eddie Albert and other Bay Area football and golf greats. Mrs. McCreery was active in the Los Altos Golf & Country Club, where she was a champion golfer who scored five holes-in-one during her lifetime.

Mrs. McCreery was born to John and Poppy Hannah in Montreal, Quebec, Nov. 21, 1908. She traveled with her family across Canada and spent most of her youth on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, where she attended the University of British Columbia. During the Depression, she moved to the Bay Area and met Hal on the Stanford University Golf Course.

The McCreerys married in 1940 at Stanford University Memorial Church and raised their children in Menlo Park and Los Altos Hills. They owned the McCreery Sign Co. in Palo Alto until Hal’s death. Mrs. McCreery worked as a librarian in Santa Clara County until her retirement.

She is survived by children Anita Benson Bradley of Hawaii Kai, Hawaii, and Glenn McCreery of Idaho Falls, Idaho, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. McCreery is predeceased by her sister, Anita Shelton, who, in 2004, also died at the age of 99.

A memorial service has been scheduled Sunday in Los Altos Hills. The family requests donations be made in Mrs. McCreery’s name to the Humane Society.