Miss Marguerite Beard, 107, a life- long resident of Paris, passed away Monday, June 1, 2015, in Paris Regional Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 5, 2015, in the chapel of Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home with Rev. John Burton officiating. Burial will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery. Family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. till 7:00 p.m. Thursday, June 4, 2015, at the Fry-Gibbs Funeral Home.
She was born on January 2, 1908, in Paris, Texas, a daughter of William Love and Eudora Bradley Beard. Miss Beard was a legal secretary for McLaughlin Hutchison & Biard for 68 years. She was the oldest living member of First Christian Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Tom Beard, Bill Beard, Bob Beard and Ralph Beard, sisters Mable Haley and Virginia Watson, nephew and nieces Bobby Beard, Ann Haley Reed and Julie Beard Marcrum and husband Charles.
Survivors include her nieces and nephews Dr. James Beard and wife Joyce, Bill Haley, Jr. and wife Cherilyn, Jane Beard Whitesides and husband Edwin (deceased), Peggy Beard Stinson and husband Hurshell (deceased), Billy Beard and wife Gradie Marie, Susan Beard Snodgrass, Walter Beard and wife Christy, Richard Beard and wife Maudie and Alice Watson and a host of other great and great-great nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Mike Clark, Billy Haley, Scott Galyon, Mike Golding, Steve Byrd, Steve Haley, Bradley Snodgrass, Mark Lackie and Ben Adam. Honorary pallbearers are Brad Hutchison, Don Wilson, T.K. Haynes, Dr.Jerry Akers, Kerry Clark, A.W. “Plug” Clem and Joe Camp.
Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.fry-gibbs.com.
