Baptized Augusta Margaretha Figge (Augusta after her father's adopted sister, and Margaret for her mother's older sister), she was always called Margaret. She was the oldest daughter and third child of John Figge and Maria Barbara Schwab Figge. In 1928, she followed her next older brother Frank to Colorado College, graduating in the class of 1930. In college, she belonged to Minerva; Tau Kappa Alpha; Eta Sigma Phi; and the Classical Club. She obtained a degree from the Smith College of Social Work (where she published a paper "Some factors in the etiology of maternal rejection"), and the Institute for Child Guidance in New York. On September 21, 1932, she married Herbert Curtis Burrowes at Hope Lutheran Church in Westcliffe Colorado. Subsequently the couple lived in Keyport NJ, and had four children, Herbert Curtis, Jr. Mary Barbara (Mariby) Burrowes Johns, Catherine Burrowes Gager (1939-1995) and Susan Burrowes Stason
Baptized Augusta Margaretha Figge (Augusta after her father's adopted sister, and Margaret for her mother's older sister), she was always called Margaret. She was the oldest daughter and third child of John Figge and Maria Barbara Schwab Figge. In 1928, she followed her next older brother Frank to Colorado College, graduating in the class of 1930. In college, she belonged to Minerva; Tau Kappa Alpha; Eta Sigma Phi; and the Classical Club. She obtained a degree from the Smith College of Social Work (where she published a paper "Some factors in the etiology of maternal rejection"), and the Institute for Child Guidance in New York. On September 21, 1932, she married Herbert Curtis Burrowes at Hope Lutheran Church in Westcliffe Colorado. Subsequently the couple lived in Keyport NJ, and had four children, Herbert Curtis, Jr. Mary Barbara (Mariby) Burrowes Johns, Catherine Burrowes Gager (1939-1995) and Susan Burrowes Stason
