Marilyn Martin Stein

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Callahan-Edfast Mortuary Chapel.

She is survived by one son, Russell Martin of St. Petersburg, Florida.

Marilyn Martin Stein

June 27, 1925 - May 8, 2015

Marilyn was born Marilyn Peoples Martin in Paducah, KY, daughter of Thomas Russell and Mary Aileen Peoples Martin. The Martins later lived in Chattanooga and Memphis, TN. She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, majoring in psychology. Marilyn married Lt. Hayes Blair Fleming in Paducah, KY in 1946. They lived in Atlanta, GA where she earned her masters degree in psychology from Emory University, doing research in psychometrics. They moved to Chicago where she was Research Associate in the Department of Electroencephalography and Epilepsy at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and published papers in this field. When the Flemings moved to Boston for Hayes to earn his masters' degree in architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, Marilyn became the Director of Electroencephalography and Psychometrics for the Seizure Unit of Boston Children's Hospital. She researched and presented a paper on a rare form of epilepsy at the International Congress of Electroencephalography in Marseilles, France.

The Flemings moved to Chattanooga where he opened his architectural practice. She was active in Medical Auxiliary, organized an EEG Dept. at Erlanger Hospital and was Director of the Mary Ann Brown School of Cerebral Palsy. In 1958, when their son, Russell, was born, she changed her lifestyle from a professional career to volunteer activity which she continued throughout her life. She served on the Board of directors for Symphony Women and Hunter Art Gallery, was a member of the Mayor's Committee for Urban Renewal and was active in republican politics.

In 1966, she married Dr. Edwin F. Chobot in Zermatt, Switzerland and continued to live in Chattanooga until they moved to Grand Junction, CO, where Dr. Chobot opened the town's first practice of neurosurgery. She was active in the Medical Auxiliary and helped organize the Mesa County Epilepsy Society as well as the Bookcliff Council for the Arts, serving as it's first president, served on the Board of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts and was a member of Reviewers Book Club.

When the Chobots moved to Spokane, WA, she joined the Board of Symphony Women, the Board of the Medical Auxiliary and was a feature writer and photographer for the Spokane Medical Society Bulletin as well as Lincoln Day chairman for several years.

In 1984, Marilyn returned to Grand Junction where she married Ellsworth F. Stein, Atomic Energy Commission retiree, in 1986. She served on the Board of the Grand Junction Symphony during which time she chaired for several years a successful golf tournament fundraiser, the Board of the Western Colorado Center for the Arts. She was also a member of the Bookcliff Country Club Board of Directors and was president of the CC Ladies Golf Association. She was on the Board of Hilltop Rehabilitation Hospital, continuing to be active on the golf tournament fund raiser. One of her special interests was the Mesa County Library where she was President and long time member of the Foundation Board. She was a Daughter of The American Revolution, Daughter of the Confederacy and a member of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church.

Her great loves were her family and worldwide adventure traveling (which she did extensively) and outdoor activities including whitewater rafting, beachcombing, skiing, badminton, tennis and golf.

Marilyn was a happy person and her main joy was doing things to make family, friends, and acquaintance happy also. She loved her family dearly, and maintained an extremely close relationship, especially with her husband, Al; her son, Rusty, and beloved grandchildren, Blair and Tyson; cherished sister, Gale and husband, Cecil, and nice, Mary. She will be greatly missed by her family and many friends and remembered as an energetic, interesting, caring person with a sparkly sense of humor.

The Reverend Russell Martin will conduct a seaside service on the Four Mile Village family beach on the Gulf of Mexico. Her ashes will be sent out to sea in a large seashell she found on a Malaysian beach. A memorial service will be held at Callahan-Edfast Mortuary on June 29th; please contact the funeral home for additional information.

Donations would be appreciated to the Mesa County Library Foundation.