Margaret Yankoski

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Margaret B. Yankoski (Pippi), 86, formerly of Loyalville, Pa., fell asleep in the Lord on Dec. 25, 2012, in Manor Care, King of Prussia.

She was the widow of Edmund Yankoski. Margaret was one of 10 children of the late Jacob Brin and Mary Nazary Brin and born in Loyalville. She was a faithful parishioner of St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church, Edwardsville. Surviving are her daughters, Peggy Tawes and husband, Gary, and Frankie Mosier and husband, Russ; four grandchildren, Kevin Gibson, Christopher Tawes, Megan Link, Russell Mosier; and four great-grandchildren, Kennedy and Karson Gibson, Ella Blue Tawes and Ava Brynn Link.

Requiem services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. in St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church, 93 Zerby Ave., Edwardsville, with the Rev. Martin Watt officiating. Interment will follow in the Eastern Orthodox Lawn of Fern Knoll Burial Park, Dallas. Family and friends may call Saturday at the church from 9 a.m. until service time.

Memorial gifts may be made to Heartland Hospice Services, 460 Norristown Road, Blue Bell, PA 19422. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Simon S. Russin Funeral Home, 136 Maffett St., Plains Township.