Posted By:	Brady Kerr
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	Subject:	Obituary for Mary Lou Jackson Pethel
	Post Date:	March 21, 2008 at 07:13:50
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	Forum:	Hall County, GA Genealogy Forum
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Mary Lou (Jackson) Pethel, age 87, departed her earthly home to be in paradise and with her heavenly father. She died at Laurel Baye Nursing Home in Buford on Tuesday evening, March 18, 2008. Funeral services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, March 21, 2008, in the chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Pastor Scott Crook will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, March 20, 2008, at the funeral home. Mrs. Pethel was born Dec. 27, 1920, in Clermont and was a native of Oakwood. She had been in declining health after taking a fall. She was a special and loving mother and wife and loved her family and friends very much. She was a homemaker, caregiver and worked at New Holland Mill in the spooling department. She made parachutes during World War II and won an award for her work. She sang at church when she was younger and loved crocheting, cooking, gardening, playing the guitar and organ. She was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald Herbert Pethel; her parents, John Moses Jackson and Fannie (Norris) Jackson; brother, Bill Franklin Jackson; and sisters, Joyce E. Whitmire Smith and Joann Jackson Davidson. Mrs. Pethel is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Raymond and Lethia Pethel; son, Richard Pethel; daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Michael Beem; brother-in-law, Austin and Lessie Pethel; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Virginia and Jimmy Lewallen; sister-in-law, Minnie Hix; four grandchildren, Elizabeth Gail Skarda, Melanie Ann Pethel, Michael Pethel and Wendi Leanne Pethel Pittman; two great-grandchildren, Ethan and Eli Skarda; and several nieces and nephews also survive. Memorial Park Funeral Home, Gainesville