Margery Adna Darden was born September 27, 1914 in Sharon, Oklahoma to Bernard and Edith Stow Mote. She joined her Savior and waiting loved ones on August 3, 2011, at the age of 96, after a short stay at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City, OK.

Margery was the second of five children born and raised on the family's 160-acre farm down along the South Persimmon Creek. She graduated with her sister Martha in 1931 from Sharon High School. In the fall of 1931 both sisters started their college careers at Northwestern State Teachers' College in Alva, OK.

After two years of college, with a teaching certificate in hand Margery taught for two years at the one-room rural school of Cherry Hill to help send Martha through her last two years of college. Then when Martha had graduated and gotten a job to help her, Margery went back and graduated in 1937 with a lifetime elementary teaching certificate. Margery taught at Mooreland from 1937 to 1938. She returned to teaching in 1956, at Sharon High School as the Home Economics teacher. She taught there about 20 years. She also served as the local 4-H leader for 22 years.

On August 20, 1938, Margery married Jessie Paul Darden at her parent's home. To this union three children were born, Mildred, Marion Lee and Eldred Ray. They established their first home in Buffalo, OK where Paul worked as a mechanic. They returned to the Darden family farm 2 miles north of Sharon in 1942. In 1955, when their home on the farm burned, they moved into the town of Sharon, where she lived until the age of 95. Since that time she has resided at the Angelwood Assisted Living in Clinton, OK, to be near daughter Mildred.

Margery was saved at the age of 10 or 11 at South Persimmon Baptist Church. She loved her church and serving there. She was church treasurer and Adult Women Sunday School teacher for over 30 years. She loved missions and praying for missionaries. Margery was a part of the Women's Missionary Union and served as Northwest Baptist Association WMU Director in 1977 and 1978.

Margery was an avid seamstress, cook, canner and homemaker. After retiring from teaching she sewed for the public for many years. She also did beautiful embroidery work. Her pillowcases became the "Hot Item" at the family reunion auction each year. Oh, how that thrilled her!

Other special interests were her joyous times spent with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews. Margery loved to play games such as hand-n-foot, Chicken Foot, Mexican Dominoes, even playing until midnight at the recent family reunion.

Margery was preceded in death by her parents, Bernard and Edith Mote; husband, Paul Darden; son, Marion Lee; infant son, Eldred Ray; brother, Lile Mote; sisters, Martha Mote and Ruth Crowe; sister in-law, Dottie Mae Mote and brother in-law Bill Crowe; an infant granddaughter, Sherri Darden and an infant grandson, Lane Aaron Tracy.

She is survived by daughter Mildred Tracy and husband Larry of Clinton, OK; daughter in-law, Linda Darden of Sharon, OK; four grandchildren, Larissa Pavlik and husband George of Moore, OK, Lance Tracy of San Antonio, TX, Travis Darden and wife Alisha of Oklahoma City, OK and Todd Darden and wife Laura of Sharon, OK; 12 great-grandchildren; brother, George Mote and wife Norma of Princeton, TX; many nieces, nephews, other loved ones and numerous friends.