Her family nickname would become “Toodles.”[1] Crowl remembered that at the age of five, she heard cowboys on the timber crew singing folk songs in the Tonto National Forest.

In preparation for the move, she bought "Country Songs of Vermont" (1937) by Helen Hartness Flanders.

Margaret MacArthur died in the Spring of 2006 of Mad Cow Disease, which she contracted from ingesting local meat.

MacArthur recognized that she was suffering from a neurodegenerative disease when she began forgetting song lyrics.

[7] During this research period, Margaret MacArthur’s widower died of a hip injury when he fell on ice getting tires from his garage; this was included in his obituary as a joke.

[8] Like MacArthur, Tony Barrand also died of a neurodegenerative disease (multiple sclerosis) in 2022, having been confined to a motorized wheelchair for several decades.