Marjorie Ferguson, age 83, formerly of Lockney, passed away with her family by her side, on February 12, 2025. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at the First Baptist Church of Lockney. Interment will follow at Lockney Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 6 p.m., Monday, February 17, 2025, at the Moore-Rose Funeral Home in Lockney. Arrangements under the personal care of the Moore-Rose Funeral Home.
Marjorie Lacy was born on September 26, 1941, in McKinney, Texas, to M.D and Anise Lacy.
She was very proud to be a fifth-generation Texan. She was baptized at Flint Baptist Church in Lubbock at the age of 13. Marjorie was engaged to James Hall Ferguson during her junior year in high school (his senior year), and shortly after her graduation they married on June 10, 1960, at the Baptist Church in Aiken, Texas. They were married for 34 1/2 years before his passing in 1996.
Her whole life was full of music — she began playing on an old pump organ that her grandparents had, even before she started piano lessons in the first or second grade. She was happy to be the organist at First Baptist in Lockney for 27 years and then was the pianist/organist for the Fort Davis First Presbyterian Church. Her children all took piano lessons beginning in first grade and continuing for as long as they wanted. She enjoyed listening to all genres of music, from Bach and Mozart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, musicals like “Paint your Wagon” and “South Pacific,” to Willie Nelson and George Strait, and of course the church hymns that she spent her life playing.
She was an accomplished seamstress and could often be found in her sewing room creating matching mommy and daughter dresses and even made a majorette uniform for her daughter’s first twirling competition.
Animals were always a part of her life — she always had dogs or cats, usually more than one of each and they were so important to her. She also loved plants and flowers, both indoor and out. We always had a big garden that she enjoyed tending to.
She was super involved in the community and activities of her kids, including being a Sunday School teacher, Cub Scout den mother, Brownie troop leader, band trip chaperone. She was proud to have been named Lockney Woman of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce in 1979.
She was a gracious hostess, always doing everything in her power to make sure meals and bedding and everything in between was perfect for her guests. She went out of her way to not offend anyone in any way.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband and is survived by her children, Mike Ferguson (Jane), Julie Booth (Ernie) and Donny Ferguson (Donna); her sister Mary Ruffin; grandchildren Brian Booth (Kimberly), Emily Wilde (Grant), Rebecca Palughi (Andrew), Stephanie Loyd, and Austin Ferguson; and seven great-grandchildren with one more on the way.
Memorials in Marjorie’s name may be made to Grand Companions Humane Society in Fort Davis at PO Box 1156, Fort Davis, TX 79734 or at www.grandcompanions.org
Online condolences may be made at www.moore-rose.com
