Entrepreneur was open about transgender life
McGuire, who ran for Houston City Council, is dead at 68
By MIKE TOLSON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Feb. 13, 2011, 12:05AM
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7424992.htmlBorn Charles R. McGuire Jr. on Nov. 26, 1942, McGuire started a successful Houston construction materials company, bought a home on the edge of River Oaks, married and raised two children before longstanding issues of sexual identity led her first to life as a ->-bleeped-<- and ultimately to sexual reassignment surgery in 1992, after which she adopted the name Kathryn.
McGuire, who died on Feb. 2 in Palm Springs, Calif., at 68, was active in Houston society and never self-conscious about her gender-bending ways as she moved from hyper-masculine entrepreneur who liked to go hunting to an oversize figure in pumps who prowled the couture racks at Neiman Marcus, friends said.
