On September 20, 1918, Pearl was born to Adam Benjamin “A. B.” and Annie Darrow, in Eldridge, Missouri, where she was raised. She had several half brothers and sisters and 2 full brothers. In her high school days, Pearl rode the bus to Stoutland High School. Louie DeBerry saved a seat on the school bus for Pearl when they would come home from school. Some of the girls would save an apple or some other goody for Louie after Pearl got off the bus. This went on for a year or more. One day as they came home Louie asked Pearl to marry him. Four months later, July 11, 1936, they were married. Louie borrowed Ralph Webster’s car to go to Marshfield to be married. Pearl writes: “When we married, Ralph Webster and my mom borrowed $50.00 and signed a note and gave this to us. We paid our part of the taxes on both farms. It took most of the money to pay the taxes. We used the rest to buy things to eat that winter. I don’t know how we paid it back to the bank.We were planning to go to California but Louie didn’t want us to go off without telling his folks… we didn’t go. In the fall, on November 18th, my father died. We quit going to school. Louie was a junior and I was a senior. That winter was very hard on us. We had no money. We had milk and eggs, very little to eat. Spring finally came. Mom DeBerry came to see us, she rode the bus. She brought green beans and made us a cake. We had some other things I don’t remember. She had made me a smock. On May 16, 1937, Bernie Don DeBerry was born. He was a beautiful baby, blue eyes, dark curly hair. He never cried. I had one dozen diapers; I washed them when they got dirty. In the fall we went to California, we rode with Ralph and Beulah, 3 kids, Mom Darrow, Louie and I and baby Bernie. Quite a car full. We moved into one of Ralph’s apartments. Louie was so young he could not get a job. We went back to Missouri and lived with Mom and Dad DeBerry for one year. We moved into the farm house on the Goodwin Hollow. There were bed bugs and fleas. Mom Darrow lived with us. She helped us get rid of the bugs and fleas. We papered the ceiling and walls. It was very hard – the paper was 36 inches wide. Bernie and I both froze our feet in that house. The kitchen had cement floors. On March 1, 1939, Charrl Cuelin was born, a beautiful boy. Don’t know why I named him that, now he is Charlie. He had beautiful eyes, no hair but a good baby. No tears. We could not make it there, again time passed and we went back to California. The Second World War was on. Louie worked at Long Beach, California. He didn’t like it so we went back to our home in Missouri.While we were in California we had bought a car. It had a window out on the right side. We put a diaper on it and moved again. We got the money to move from State of California – from Relief. It was March and cold, but we made it. Back home in Missouri, Louie was drafted into the Navy. The boys and I moved to Mom’s house in Sleeper. Mom lived with us until she re-married, then we moved into the back bedroom of Spur and Norma Alloway’s house. Later it started raining and we moved across the street to stay with Mrs. Wright. Our bed had gotten wet. We loved living with Mrs. Wright. It was time for Louie to come home. We had no place for him to sleep. I sold the Goodwin Hollow farm for $7,000 and bought the Fullbright farm for the same amount of money. We lived there quite a while. (1945-1954). We had built us a dairy barn, with about 25 cows to milk by hand. Later we got a milking machine. In the 1950’s there was a dreadful drought. We had gone in debt for 3 years in the winter time. Paid it off in the summer.One night Louie called a meeting to tell the boys we were going to California. The boys were in high school, Bernie a senior, Charlie a junior. Bernie wanted to graduate at Stoutland School. He moved to Uncle Fred DeBerry’s – and Charlie said “I want to go with my Daddy”. Louie said that’s enough – we had a sale and went to California. (1954) We lived in El Toro for a short time then moved to a house on College St. in La Habra. We bought a house on Colfax Street in La Habra. (1955) Louie worked at Globe Oil Tools. I worked at Nutrilite for 14 or 15 years. We moved back to Missouri. (1968) We bought a farm of 80 acres in Fair Grove. We lived there 3 or 4 years. We sold it to Bernie and moved back to California (1972) and bought a house on the north side of Whittier Blvd. (Greenview Dr.). We lived there 3 or 4 years, sold it for $55,000 and then moved back to Missouri, this time to Pleasant Hope (1977). We moved back to California again, this time we bought a house on Pinehurst St. in La Habra. (1978) I worked at Beckman. I retired from there. Louie worked several jobs. He also worked for Charles Waugh, cleaning up gas rigs. He was paid well and liked it. We sold the house on Pinehurst (1989) and we went back to Missouri and lived in Springfield for 22 years before we moved into the Baptist Home in Ozark, Missouri. We moved 2 more times, a duplex and then an independent living place, both in Springfield. One day Louie said “Would you want to go to California?” I was spellbound and asked if he wanted to go. He replied, “I’m going”. We moved to California for the last time in July, 2010.”Louie died in California on September 7, 2010 Pearl died in La Habra, California on March 13, 2016. Pearl was the youngest, and last surviving, of all the children of A.B. and Annie Darrow. Her full brothers were George Henry Darrow and Ernest “Ben” Darrow She was married for 74 years to Louie DeBerry, he died in 2010. She is survived by her Sons: Bernie Don DeBerry living in Dyersburg, Tennessee Teresa Jeannine Kline, Susanne Marie Cole, and Matthew Ryan DeBerry a Son: Charrl Cuelin “Charlie” DeBerry living in La Habra, California Sharyl “Shari” Ann Nelson, and Lorri Jean DeBerry 5 grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren and numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be at 11:00 am, Saturday, May 7, 2016 in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Services have been entrusted to Greenlawn Funeral Home North