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     Geoffrey Bonser Beardall was born on 26 December 1925 in Orlando, Orange Co., Florida.^3,2 He married Margaret Ann Yurgaitis, daughter of Alexander Yurgaitis and Margaret Clegg, on 29 October 1954 in Fauquier Co., Virginia.⁴ He died on 8 September 2024 at AdventHealth Hospice Care in Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida, at age 98.²
     He served in the military during World War II, then enrolled as the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, graduating in 1950.²
     He worked in newspaper advertising, first with the Winchester Star in Winchester, Virginia, then for 28 years with the Washington Star in Washington, D.C. When the Star folded in 1981, he began his own business, retiring in 1988.²
     He and his wife Margaret then moved to Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida,^5,2 where he volunteered with the Hospice of Central Florida.²

     Margaret Ann Yurgaitis was born on 28 September 1930 in Front Royal, Warren Co., Virginia.^2,1 She married Geoffrey Bonser Beardall, son of John Reginald Beardall and Edith Jett McCormick, on 29 October 1954 in Fauquier Co., Virginia.¹ She died on 30 August 2008 at the Mayflower Retirement Center in Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida, at age 77.³
     She was a registered nurse, originally trained at Memorail Hospital in Winchester, Virginia, with post-graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For most of her career she worked at various hospitals in Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia, usually in the emergency room. She later became head nurse and office manager for Associated Urologists in Arlington, Virginia.³
     She retired in 1988, and she and her husband Geoffrey moved to Winter Park, Orange Co., Florida,^3,4 where she served as president of the Maitland Association of Fine Arts, and the Town Club of Winter Park.³

     Richard Anvil Clark II was born on 23 January 1928 in Santa Barbara Co., California.² He married first Patricia Hermina Trowbridge, daughter of Conrad Firman Trowbridge and Ruth Marie Berry, on 16 December 1949 in Rockville, Montgomery Co., Maryland.^3,4 Patricia filed for divorce in April 1956 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California, and a few days later was granted a temporary restraining order.^5,6 An interlocutory judgment of divorce was issued in July 1956, and the divorce was finalized a year later.^7,8 He died on 5 July 1984 in Santa Barbara Co., California, at age 56.⁹
     He graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco, California, and in February 1946 enlisted in the Navy for a two-year term. He was released in December 1947, with a rating of pharmacist third class.^10,11
     At the time of his marriage in 1949 he was attending the University of Virginia in Charlottesville⁴, and later graduated from Santa Barbara College (now the University of California, Santa Barbara).¹²
     He and his first wife Patricia are listed in the 1950 census at 91 Cold Spring Rd. in Twp. 2, Santa Barbara Co., California, the same house as his mother Cora, but listed as a separate household.¹³
     In June 1953, after a ten-month course at the Coro Foundation in San Francisco designed to train young men and women in municipal and public affairs, he began working as an administrative analyst for the county of Santa Barbara.¹² He resigned that position on 1 April 1957 due to ill health, with plans to begin post-graduate work in San Francisco.¹⁴

     Nancy Lynde Saxby was born on 7 December 1935 in Santa Barbara Co., California.² She died on 8 June 2006 at age 70.³

     Patricia Hermina Trowbridge was born on 5 November 1930 in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Delaware.² She married first Richard Anvil Clark II, son of Morris Richard Clark and Cora Abbot McCormick, on 16 December 1949 in Rockville, Montgomery Co., Maryland.^3,1 She filed for divorce in April 1956 in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co., California, and a few days later was granted a temporary restraining order.^4,5 An interlocutory judgment of divorce was issued in July 1956, and the divorce was finalized a year later.^6,7 She died on 5 July 2011 in Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington, at age 80.²
     She and her first husband Richard are listed at 91 Cold Spring Rd. in Twp. 2, Santa Barbara Co., California, in the 1950 census, the same house as Richard's mother Cora, but listed as a separate household.⁸
     She had attended Fairfax Hall Junior College in Waynesboro, Virginia, before her first marriage¹, then went back to school after raising her children, graduating from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Pierce Co., Washington, with a law degree.² She initially joined a law firm in Tacoma, which later folded⁹, then became a deputy prosecutor in the family support unit of the Pierce Co. Prosecutor's Office. She retired in 2000.²