She was born on August 13, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey and was the daughter of the late Morris Murray and Estelle Sperber Monestersky.
Marian graduated from Union High School in Union, New Jersey, and lived her early life in the Jersey Shore area. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Boston University and her Masters from Eastern Mennonite University. She was a Mental Health therapist with Sentara RMH Medical Center before retiring.
She was an avid reader, jewelry collector, and participated in dog agility training; she loved fast sports cars, including her Austin-Healey, and enjoyed gardening, landscaping and vacationing in Duck, NC. She was a member of the Virginia S2K Club of America.
On October 14, 1995, she married James Aveson, who survives her. She is also survived by a daughter, Alison E. Hearn and her wife, Katherine Swope; a grandson, Christopher E. Hearn all of Scituate, MA; a step daughter, Shannon Prinzhorn; two step granddaughters, Brook and Mia Gaetani all of Hazlet, NJ; a sister, Julie Berger of Harrisonburg; her Maine Coon cat, Liza Mae and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Robbie.
The family requests no flowers, and memorial contributions be made in her memory to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum by visiting www.ushmm.org.
A funeral service will be held at 11 am, Friday, July 1, 2022, at Lindsey Funeral Home in Harrisonburg, with Rabbi Jeff Kurtz-Lendner officiating. Burial will be at Eastlawn Memorial Gardens. There will be no public viewing.
Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting www.lindseyharrisonburg.com.
