Frances Elizabeth "Beth" Macrini

Frances Elizabeth (Beth) Macrini Yeatman was born on August 7, 1980, in Dallas, Texas. She passed away on October 19, 2023, at the age of 43, in Dallas, Texas. She attended Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas from elementary school to high school and graduated in 1999. She graduated in 2003 from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. with a bachelor's degree in business. She was offered a job in the finance department and worked there while she earned an MBA degree from Pepperdine. After finishing college, she worked for a short time at J C Penney’s Co in Plano, TX. She then secured a position at PepsiCo in Plano, TX in 2007 and worked there until her illness was diagnosed Thanksgiving of 2022.

Beth began to play piano when she was three years old. She had a natural talent that held her interest all the way through high school. She gave a solo piano recital at Hockaday her senior year. She enjoyed singing and sang with a group that led worship in her youth group at church. She was a member of the Hockaday High School choir and traveled to Austria her senior year with other seniors and sang in several locations in that country.

Beth was good at math and had an interest in business. She became a financial analyst and held several positions in the finance department at PepsiCo and had secured a position as a Senior Director of Finance by 2022. She was well-liked by her peers and team members and showed that she had a talent for achievement of her goals as a leader of each team she headed.

While at J C Penney’s Co she met John Macrini and they were married on October 11, 2008. Drew was born in 2010 and Ethan was born in 2013. They lived in Plano and Frisco. They were divorced in 2018. Beth had known Mike Yeatman professionally at PepsiCo for many years. At one time, she was on his sales team. After her divorce they began to date and they were married on May 29, 2022 in Sicily, Italy. It was a dream venue and the honeymoon of 2 weeks created many happy memories. They have lived in Carrollton, Tx since that time. Mike owns a ranch near Stephenville, Tx. Mike and Beth have spent many peaceful weekends there and Drew and Ethan love to go to the ranch for nature hikes, bike rides and life in the Texas country.

Beth has suffered with colon cancer and metastatic liver cancer for almost a year. It took her life too soon. All of her family and friends are deeply saddened by her passing and she will be missed greatly.

Beth had a secure faith in Jesus and has lived her entire life closely tied to her relationship with God and His church. She had a steadfast belief that she would be in Heaven after her life on earth was complete.

Beth is survived by her husband, Michael Yeatman, her sons Drew and Ethan Macrini, and her daughter Emily Bassett and her husband Brad, and their children Olivia, Luke and Leo; her parents William Barraco and Mary Wilson-Keener and Lewis (Deakon) Keener; her brother, Samuel Barraco and his wife Rachel, and her sisters, JoAnn Barraco and Anita Coleman and her husband Chaad; her nephews and nieces Corey Ray and his wife Sara, Taylor Ray and his wife Victoria, Jordan Totilo and her husband Alex, Lucia Barraco, Alena Barraco, Josephine Barraco, William J Barraco, and Gemma Barraco; her husband’s brothers and sister, Matthew and Timothy Yeatman and Theresa Gerlach and their families, 5 great- nephews and 4 aunts, an uncle and many cousins. Beth greatly treasured her family and all of these people were very special to her.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations made in Beth's name to the American Cancer Society.