Margie Frances Long Harreld

Margie Frances Long Harreld, 83, of Owensboro, died peacefully Sunday, July 3, 2005 at Owensboro Medical Health System in the presence of her family. Born in Owensboro, a daughter of the late John Will and Stella Arnold Long, she attended Owensboro High School and received her Kentucky High School Graduate Equivalency Diploma in 1967. An active member of First Baptist Church where she sang with the SeniorSingers, she worked for the Owensboro Board of Education and retired in 1983 as executive secretary and assistant to the executive director of the Owensboro Area Museum. A past member of the Kentucky Secretarys Association, which she served as secretary-treasurer, she was a Kentucky Colonel and was honored by the Governor of Kentucky on her 80th birthday for her loyalty to the Commonwealth. She traveled extensively, including her continued participation in the annual meetings of the World War II veterans of the 69th Infantry Division in which her husband had served. An active and vivacious woman who thoroughly enjoyed life, Mrs. Harreld was an avid reader and prolific letter writer who loved playing the piano, line dancing, attending plays and concerts, volunteering with Golden Partners and the RiverPark Center, and aquasizing, after learning to swim at the age of 66. She was preceded in death by her husband, Carson Bivins Harreld, Sr. in 1986, as well as her sisters, Beatrice Taylor Bozarth, Anne Humphreys, Wanda Ralston Simpson, and Gladys Loving.

Survivors include her children, Carson Harreld, Jr. and his wife Yvonne, of Dunwoody, GA, Arthur Harreld and his wife Debra of Owensboro, and Jane Anne Harreld of Louisville; her grandchildren, Adam Harreld of New Mexico, Margie Alice Clark and her husband Josh of Atlanta, Ginger Yvonne Lackey and her husband Holt of Houston, Kevin Harreld and his wife Andrea of Winston-Salem, Lauren Harreld of Owensboro, and Matthew Carson Monroe and Darren Joseph Monroe, both of Louisville; and her brother, W.A. Sonny Long, of Owensboro.

Services are at 2:00 p.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church. Visitation will be from 2:00 until 8:00 p.m. Friday and from 10:00 a.m. until noon Saturday at Glenn Funeral Home. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Endowment Fund of the Family YMCA or the Memorial Fund of First Baptist Church.