Marsha Beth Hayden

MARSHA BETH HAYDEN, 61, of Sugar Land, TX, joined her Heavenly Father on Friday, May 25, 2012, after her struggle with cancer. Memorial Services will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, May 31, 2012, at Christ United Methodist Church of Sugar Land. Dr. Tom Pace, pastor of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church of Houston, assisted by Rev. Linda Summers Pierce, of Christ United Methodist Church of Sugar Land, will officiate.

Marsha was born February 11, 1951, in York, PA, to Clara Louise Lutz of Vernon and the late Robert Vernon Pfeifer of York, PA. She was a graduate of Frederick (OK) High School and attended Vernon Regional Junior College and the Art Institute of Houston’s Culinary Arts Program. She was happiest in the service of others and devoted much of her time to fellowship and ministry outreach, establishing “Christmas By Candle Light” and acting as a wedding coordinator as a member of Christ United Methodist Church of Sugar Land. She also served in her local Prison Fellowship chapter’s Inner Change Freedom Initiative.

Marsha is survived by her mother; her daughter, Hillary Hayden, of Houston; her son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter, Chris, Qiuni, and Kaitlyn, of Sugar Land; and her siblings, Barbara Westmoreland of Wichita Falls, Pat Ryerson of Vernon, and David Ayers, of Temple.

Her family would like to express their thanks to her friends and caretakers for their immense love and ministry during her final time with us here.

A gathering will be held on Wednesday, May 30, 2012, from 6–8 PM, at The Settegast-Kopf Company Funeral Directors, in Sugar Land.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Christ United Methodist Church of Sugar Land, www.cumcsl.org/about/giving.aspx, or Prison Fellowship, www.prisonfellowship.org/give-pf/give.

Online condolences may be made to the family at www.settegastkopf.com.