Margie Nell Mayberry's Obituary
Margie Nell Mayberry, age 85, died suddenly of cardiac arrest on Wednesday, August 23, 2023, in Tacoma, Washington.
Margie was the eldest of two children born to Sanuk Scott, Jr. and Hellen Brown Scott on September 18, 1937. After her father’s death, in 1939, Margie’s mother, Hellen, remarried to Claiborne Barksdale. She was raised on Magnolia Street in Vidalia, Louisiana with her grandmother, Emma; mother, Hellen; step-father, Claiborne and sister, Emma Jean. She graduated from Concordia Parish Training School in 1955 and entered Grambling College, on a debate scholarship, the same year. In 1959 she graduated from Grambling College with a B. A. degree in History. From that she commenced a 44-year teaching career in Noxapater, Mississippi. Initially teaching high school, in Noxapater, Margie moved to Junction City, Kansas where she taught continued education for the army and junior high students on Fort Riley. She would later substitute teach in Baltimore, Los Angeles and Sierra Vista. In 1972 she taught junior high at St. Aloysuis Catholic School, in Cleveland, Ohio. Relocating to Anniston, Alabama, in 1973, Margie embarked on teaching elementary students, eventually teaching kindergarten until 1982. During this time, she earned a master’s degree, in Elementary Education, from Jacksonville State University. Accompanying her husband to Fort Lewis, Washington, in 1982, Margie received a first-grade teaching position at Heartwood Elementary School on McChord Air Force Base. She and her family became members of Grace Gospel Service in 1987 on Fort Lewis and she eventually retired from teaching in 2003. Last, but not least, Margie was a proud member Delta Sigma Theta, Tacoma Alumnae Chapter.
In December 1959 Margie and Arthur T. Mayberry (Jack) married in Orange, Texas. They would be married for sixty-two years. From this union came their only child, Arthur Ricardo Mayberry (Rickie). For 20(+) years of her husband’s thirty-year career, Margie accompanied Jack from coast to coast of the United States.
Margie was preceded in death by a host of uncles and aunts that were extremely influential in her life. However, primarily preceded by her husband, Arthur (Jack); grandmother, Emma; father, Sanuk; stepfather, Claiborne; mother, Hellen; sisters, Emma Jean and Shirley Rose. She is survived by her son, Rickie, brother in-laws, Charles Ferguson, Wilton Eldridge, Malcolm Williams and Eugene Franklin. Sister in-laws, Bobbie Eldridge, Aretha Williams and Anna Franklin. The Ellis and Moring family in San Diego, California. And a host of nieces, nephews and cousins in Louisiana, California and Tennessee.
A memorial will be held for Margie on September 5, 2023, at 2pm at Mountain View Funeral Home in Lakewood, Washington. Funeral will follow on September 13, 2023, at 11am at Young’s Chapel Baptist Church in Vidalia, Louisiana. Burial will be at the National cemetery in Natchez, Mississippi.
In lieu of flowers, please donate, in honor of Margie N. Mayberry, to The HBCU Foundation @ thehbcufoundation.org and/or Alzheimer’s Foundation of America @ alzfdn.org.
To view the live webcast of Margie's service, please click on this link:https://webcast.funeralvue.com/events/viewer/92138/hash:F0D8BA9926B3DAA7
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