She leaves four children, Keith, Nancy, Jeff and Paul; four grandchildren, Michelle, Michael, Anthony and Aletha; her brother, Richard; sister-in-law, Francis; niece, Sharon and her husband, Randy and their two sons, Austin and Garrett.
At the age of seventeen, she graduated from the Academy of Aeronautics, where she worked for the Army Air Force as a mechanic during WWII. Later in 1964, she moved her family to Florida where she became a nurse in 1968. Marion bought her first and only home that year and lived there the next fifty years raising her children and grandchildren.
A Visitation will begin at 12 PM on Wed. Mar. 21, 2018 until the time of Services at 1 PM at Palms-Robarts Memorial Park. Sarasota, FL.