Margaret Lee (Sinclair) Laney, age 79, of Riverside CA, passed away peacefully on May 27, 2021.  She was born on July 19, 1941, in Houston TX, to Mary Kate (Crow) and William Stanley Sinclair Jr. She attended high school at Lamar High in Houston (class of 1959) and the University of Arizona.  Her career was in education and nursing. She is survived by her husband, Francis Phillip Laney and his children from a former marriage, Laura Laney, Jennifer (Laney) Myers and Phillip C. Laney, and her child from her former marriage, William J. Carter IV, and her brother, William S. Sinclair.  She had seven grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her sister, Adrian (Sinclair) Balch, her previous husband, William J Carter III, and their second child, Matthew S. Carter. 

A graveside service will be held on Friday, July 8, 2022 at 10:00 A.M. at the Episcopal Cemetery, 4001 Avenue K, Galveston, Texas, with Reverend Jimmy Abbott officiating.