Mary McNeelis Sather, left this earth September 12, 2020 to join our Heavenly Father in heaven and re-unite with her loved ones. Our Loving Mary was a beautiful soul from the inside and out, she always presented herself as a true lady with Elegance and Grace.  Mary had a sweet, kind Spirt, and she was loyal, if you she made a promise to you, she was going to follow through. Mary was loyal to her work, her family, and her friends. If you ever met her, you would never forget her. Mary was a strong driven successful woman, anything she touched would be a success. Mary was reliable, energetic, a go-getter, and had perseverance, she would never give up on accomplishing her goals. Mary begin her career with the government in 1961 as a Secretary to Commanding Officer Supply Department, at Midway Island, located in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean. In 1963, Mary returned to Memphis, where she continued to work a few more years for Private Industries, but her goal was to land a stable government job. In 1968, she began working for DIPEC, where she heard the officials from the Washington, DC area were recruiting Volunteers to go to Vietnam, Mary being young and adventurous applied and accepted a position in Long Binh, Vietnam, where she worked for the Deputy Chief of Staff, United States Vietnam for 18.5 months, once this job was complete, she was able to return to DIPEC in 1970 in her same role as promised. Upon returning to Memphis she later begin working at the IRS from 1970 to 1996. She first interviewed for a Secretarial Position, and interviewed and drilled for hours by Three Branch Chiefs, Personnel Branch, Training Branch, and the Facilities Management Branch, after all the drilling, she was not so sure she would even accept the position, if one was offered, but she was offered the position and she accepted it. She was told later they all wanted to hire her, so they flipped a coin and Curt Eldred, Chief, FMB won, and from that day forward her long successful Career began. Mary Served several positions and would continue to move up, Mary worked extremely hard ,working numerous hours off the clock, but her loyalty and dedication continued to pay off. From 1970 to 1996 she served numerous high respectful positions , serving as Budget Analyst, FMB, Property and Procurement Manager, Physical Security Analyst , she was also selected as a lateral to the building analyst and shortly promoted as Senior Analyst, and Team Leader. Mary retired earlier than expected due to developing Cancer, but she was a Survivor, she survived Breast and Colon Cancer, and was very involved and active in the community. Mary's extracurricular activities: Include serving on the Board of Directors of the Memphis Service Center Federal Credit Union for 25 years, as a Volunteer she has devoted many off-duty hours to achieving the goal of the Credit Union. She also served on the Memphis Parenting Advisory Board. Other Activities : Include collecting charitable funds for the American Cancer Society, the March of Dimes, Leukemia, and the American Heart Association in her neighborhood for the past 20 years. Traveled: Mary has traveled to Hong Kong, Australia, Guam, Hawaii, the Bahamas, Jamaica, and London. She has lived in the States of Florida, California, Tennessee and two overseas duties, Midway and Vietnam. Mary attended St. Mark's United Methodist Church regularly. Mary leaves behind her Sisters Martha Lois Bailey, Rosa Pitts, and Sarah Pittman; Her Nieces, Mary Burns, preceded by death, Dawn Burns Chiles, Angela Bailey Briggs, Amy Bailey Bennett; and her Great Nieces and Nephews, Tyler Newsom, Dylan Soyland, Gracee Briggs, Hannah Briggs, Caylee Bennett, Cooper Bennett, Arabella Casey, Zoe Casey, and Graham Chiles, and her Sweetheart, Jerry Dail; and many wonderful friends

LOVE

There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer; No Disease that enough LOVE will not heal; No door that enough LOVE will not open, No gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge; No wall that enough LOVE will not throw down; No sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake–a sufficient realization of LOVE will dissolve it all. . . if only you could LOVE enough, you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world.

"Emmer Fox".