Marjorie Dillard

Helen Marjorie “Margie” Smith was born on December 22, 1928 in Austin, Texas. She grew up Rosedale on Ramsey Street when Shoal Creek was still outside the city limits. She attended Rosedale Elementary School, Baker Junior High, and the original Austin High School on Rio Grande when it was the only high school in Austin. From early on, Margie loved to dance, learning to tap dance when she was only four. Her love of music, nurtured by her mother extended to just listening to the music then playing the piano by picking out the notes. In high school, Margie was part of the Austin High School Glee Club where many of her lasting friendships were forged. In the area of academics, Margie also performed exceptionally well and graduated a full two years ahead of her class.

Margie’s professional career was no less distinguished. Starting in a basic secretarial position at a local insurance agency she improved her profession skill to serve as assistant to the President for the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners (TIPRO), legal secretary and confidential assistant at Morgan Pearce, Fenner and Smith, and finishing her professional career when she retired after 20 years as Confidential Secretary and Executive Assistant to the President of the Texas/Oklahoma Local, Communications Workers of America (CWA). Margie also was an active member of the Tower Lights Chapter of the National Secretaries Association, serving as President on three separate occasions.

Socially. Margie enjoyed people and having fun with groups such as the Austin Elks Club, Good Neighbor Sam Travel Group, and the Kingsberry County Music group. Marge has traveled widely and seen much but her life was wholly devoted to her family.

From father, mother, sister and brother thru two husbands and a fiancée, four children and nine grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren and four great-great grandchildren Margie had a uniquely special talent for treating each one as the special individual they were and giving a special of blend of wisdom, discipline and humor that helped shape and mold all of their lives.

Margie is pre-deceased by her parents W.H. “Daddy Bill” and Gennvive “Mama Dee” Smith; brother Eugene T. Smith; husband E.R “Buddy” Jacobson Jr.; husband Howard Dillard, fiancée Vernon Webb.

She is survived with love by her sister Mrs. H.H. “Peggy” Ruffin Jr. of Houston, TX; son Bill L “Rusty” Jacobson of Bedford, Pa; daughter Becky Lynn Bonnette of Pflugerville, TX; daughter Vickie Jean Jacobson of Austin, TX; son William Rich Jacobson of Austin, TX, sister-in-law Joy Smith of Austin and grandchildren Beau Jacobson, Cherryl Dionne, Steve Howsare, Jeff Howsare, Wade Jacobson, Adrienne Zilkah, Eric Jacobson, Kalinda Howe and Matt Bonnette.

The world is a little less bright without you,

But your legacy shines on in our hearts

Keep watch over us now, like you have always

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation with the family from two o’clock until five o’clock in the afternoon, on Sunday, the 25th of January 2015, at Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas.

Funeral services will be conducted at ten o’clock in the morning on Monday, the 26th of January 2015, in the Colonial Chapel of Cook-Walden Funeral Home, 6100 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas. Interment will follow in Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Texas.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Maplewood Elementary, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society or the Austin Fire Fighters Association.

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