Margaret B. Yarnall

YARNALL, MARGARET (MCDOWELL) BEALE “PEG” – Age 92, joined our Lord on the 22nd day of June 2013. She was a vibrant, gentle, and beautiful lady who loved her life, her family and friends, her church, and her faithful dog Gingerbread, who all loved her back. She was an avid reader and crossword puzzler, loved to watch the water, loved animals and flowers, all of God’s creation. She will be deeply missed by her three children, Chandler Pennington Yarnall II (Peggy) of Trussville, AL, WendyElaine Yarnall of Antioch, TN, and Roger Owen Yarnall (Lynn) of Greencastle, PA; three brothers, Weston Haden Beale (Mary Yarnall) of Cherry Hill, NJ, Edward Pendleton Beale of Cochranville, PA, and Donald Robert Beale of Ulysses, PA; grandchildren; nieces; nephews; and friends. She is preceded in death by her husband of 44 years, Roy Owen Yarnall, by her parents, George Fairlamb Beale and Lucie Elizabeth Haden Beale of Cochranville, PA, and brothers, Louis Fairlamb Beale and George Henry Beale also of Pennsylvania. She attended Goldey-Beacom Business College, and was a secretary for Dupont and the US Navy in Wilmington, DE. She married at 29 years of age and raised a family as a dairy farmer’s wife in New London, PA. She and her husband relocated to Ocala and then Belleview, FL in 1973, until 2005 when she relocated to Antioch, TN to share a home with her daughter. She was a fine Christian woman serving as an elder in the Presbyterian Church starting at 12 years of age. She was a charter member of Silver Springs Presbyterian Church of Ocala, FL, and a current member of Priest Lake Presbyterian Church of Nashville, TN. The memorial service to celebrate her life will be held at two o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the 29th of June 2013. Family will receive friends starting at twelve-thirty and after the service. There will be a reception following the service, all of which to be held at Priest Lake Presbyterian Church, 2787 Smith Springs Road, Nashville, TN 37217. Private interment will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Nashville, TN. Flowers are welcome because she loved them so much, but donations in her memory can be made to Priest Lake Presbyterian Church or Alive Hospice, Nashville, TN.