Obit of Beasley, Margaret Jean Dering - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 20 Mar 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Duncan Banner 19 Dec 2002 Margaret Jean Dering Beasley Margaret Jean Dering Beasley, 46, of Duncan died Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2002, in Oklahoma City. A memorial service will be at 4 p.m. Friday in the Christian Center. Mrs. Beasley was born Sept. 27, 1956, in South Holland, Ill., to Henry Dering Jr. and Joyce Vanderlee Dering. She married Robert Lawrence Beasley on Dec. 23, 1978. Mrs. Beasley was proud of her heritage and grateful for her Christian education from Kindergarten to earning a Bachelor of science degree from Pensacola Christian College (where she met Robert and later gave birth to her first two children). She went on to teach at Robertsdale Christian School. She and her young family moved to Duncan in 1983 after serving on staff at PCC. Three more children were born in Duncan. She home schooled not only her own children, but many others who wanted to learn high school biology, astronomy or German. She was awed and delighted by "creation." She loved homemaking and cooking. These interests led her to run a small whole wheat bakery and be in a health food buying club nearly 13 years. Most of all she loved people and making friends based on common interests and spiritual things. She would rather have stayed with us all for many more productive years. She fought cancer bravely and calmly with alternative medicine and her final years were quality time among those she loved best. Survivors include her husband of the home; five children, Laura Elizabeth "Betsy," Micah Henry, Stephen Daniel, Nancy Ruth and Timothy John Beasley, all of the home; her mother, Joyce Dering of Sheldon, Iowa; a brother and his wife, Gary and Zoey Dering of Gig Harbor, Wash.; and a sister and her husband, Barbara Lee and David DeJong of Hospers, Iowa. Other surviving family members are Laura Beasley of Hot Springs, Ark.; Mary Beasley, Betty Beasley, Don and Melanie Beasley, Gerald III and Kathie Beasley, all of Duncan, and six nieces. She was preceded in death by three brothers and two sisters in infancy; her father, Henry Dering Jr. and his three sisters; her motherŐs sister; all of her grandparents, Bertha Van Vlymen, Henrietta Ettema, Margaret Groustra, Marjorie DeMello, Henry and Jenny Dering, and Garrett and Lena Vanderlee; and her father-in-law, Dr. Gerald Beasley Jr. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm