Marion Louise DiGangi

September 19, 2016 in Groton Regency Nursing Center. She was born on December 5,

1922 in New London, the daughter of Albert and Matilda (Belcher) Lorenz. She grew up

on Granite St. on Groton Bank, raised by her mother Matilda Schramm and a loving

stepfather Otto F. Schramm. She graduated from Fitch High School in 1941 and Joseph

Lawrence School of Nursing in 1944 and was employed as a Registered Nurse in the

Delivery Room at Lawrence and Memorial Hospital until her retirement in 1992.

Marion loved her job and helped deliver hundreds of babies. She was a devoted mother

to her 4 children, providing for them after her first husband died, suddenly, when they

were all still young. She enjoyed gardening and looked forward to her azaleas blooming

in the spring. She knitted sweaters, sewed clothes and braided rugs. She wallpapered

every room of her house by herself. She loved music and was always singing and

dancing. Her biggest passion was travel and she visited Alaska, South America, Russia,

Europe, her two husbands’ families in the old Country of Italy, crawled into a foxhole in

Vietnam and stood on the Great Wall of China.

Marion is predeceased by her husband of 17 years James H. Lawrence Jr., her second

husband of 35 years Joseph J. DiGangi, her brother Otto Schramm and a son James M.

Lawrence who died tragically in a motorcycle accident in 1980. She is survived by her 3

sisters, Sandra Cataldi , Dana McAllister and April Falcone; her daughters, Virginia

Lawrence of Kennebunk, Maine, Joyce Springsteel (Peter) of Mystic, CT and a son Jeffrey

Lawrence of Quaker Hill. She has 5 grandchildren, Anne Bureau, Sarah Thomas, Samuel

Swenson, Bennett Springsteel and Ellen Springsteel and 3 great-grandchildren, Eliza

Bureau, Hazel and Lila Thomas.

The family is grateful to the staff of Groton Regency for their attentive care. Calling

Hours will be held on Saturday, October 8, 2016 from 11:00 until 12:00pm in Fulton-

Theroux Funeral Home, 181 Ocean Ave., New London, CT. A Memorial Service will

follow at 12:00pm in the funeral home. Flowers are welcome. Burial is private.

Please visit www.fultontherouxnewlondon.com for photos, tributes, directions and

more service information.