
Margaret Huntley Main, the Oldest Living Tournament of Roses Queen, Dies at 102
Published on December 1, 2023
AUBURN, Calif.—Margaret Huntley Main, the 1940 Tournament of Roses queen and the oldest living titleholder, has died. She was 102. Ms. Main died Nov. 24 in Auburn, California, the Tournament of Roses said in a statement Tuesday. No cause of death was given. She was attending Pasadena City College when she was chosen by the Pasadena Tournament of Roses as queen of the New Year’s Day parade. The grand marshals in 1940 were ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy, Charlie McCarthy. Ms. Main rode in the Rose Parade several times in later years on the float with former queens and in 2009 on the City of Roseville, California, float....
