Marjorie Ann Yarbro

Marjorie Ann (Brown) Yarbro of Waco passed away on July 1, 2022. Memorial services will be held Saturday August 13, 2022 at Western Heights Baptist Church on Bosque Blvd. She will be placed beside her husband at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery.

On January 9, 1924, Marjorie was born at the family home in the Valley View community north of Nocona, Texas to Joe Hunter Brown, Jr., and Mabel (Gill) Brown.

She and Joe graduated from Prairie View Consolidated School together. They were married at the early ages of 18 after graduation in 1942. After only a few months her husband was called to active duty during World War II.

Marjorie entered the work force with little training or experience at the time when all the men went to war and the women worked in the vacated jobs to support the war effort. She had interesting work experiences, including being a “Rosie the Riveter” for a time. Later she learned enough Morse Code to work for the railway, copying and dispatching running orders for the trains. She attended Draughon’s Business College in Wichita Falls, and then worked in Civil Service office positions at Sheppard AFB, and Ft. Eustis, VA (a prisoner of war base) while her husband was in naval school at Camp Perry.

Marjorie and Joe lived in Wichita Falls, TX where she worked in the office of a jewelry store while he attended Hardin College. After nine years they started their family. His job took him to work in Dallas, so they took the family to Irving to live. When the children got to school age, she worked for Army Intelligence in Dallas, then for Irving ISD Central Administrative Business Office. She retired from there in 1986 after 23 years.

Marjorie was devoted to her Lord and her church and was actively involved in every place where she lived. She held many positions of service and best loved working with preschool children. She was a leader in missions work at each church she attended, teaching children’s mission classes and supporting women’s mission activities.

Marjorie enjoyed the travels she and Joe were able to take both at home and abroad. They were also able to make some missions trips to help rebuild or repair churches.

Marjorie enjoyed 70 years of being married to Joe. They are survived by three children and their families, Dr. Joe H. Yarbro (Nancie), Lea Ann Schmidt (Jim), and David Yarbro; seven grandchildren and their families; nine great-grandchildren; her sister, Joyce Boydston; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Lea Yarbro, and her brothers, Billie Joe Brown, and Paul Brown.