Marie Elizabeth Corcoran

COLUMBIA – Marie Elizabeth Corcoran, 90, widow of Colonel Edward F. Corcoran, Ph.D. died on Tuesday, November 3, 2015. A Funeral Mass will be held at 12 noon on Friday, November 6, 2015 at St. John Neumann Catholic Church. A reception will follow the service in the church Fellowship Hall. Interment will be in Arlington National Cemetery where her husband is interred at a later date. Dunbar Funeral Home, Northeast Chapel, is assisting the family. Born August 15, 1925 in Plains, PA, Marie was an honor graduate of Plains Memorial High School and a 1947 graduate of The Wilkes-Barre General Hospital School of Nursing. She was a Registered Nurse, spending most of her nursing career in private duty and volunteer work. Mrs. Corcoran was an Army wife for thirty years and an accomplished homemaker beyond her years in the military. She and her six children accompanied her husband to twenty-one duty stations in those thirty years in the United States as well as overseas, including three years in the Panama Canal Zone in the early 1950s, and three years in West Germany in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Throughout deployments, many moves, and being a mother to her children, she always devoted time as a Registered Nurse volunteering in the Post Hospitals, the Red Cross and the Veterans Administration Hospitals. Mrs. Corcoran is survived by her six children, Nora Lee and her husband, Mr. Frank Albert Floyd, III, of Columbia; Mary Joan, of Larksville, PA; Anne Marie and her husband, General Stanley A. McChrystal, USA (Ret.), of Alexandria, VA; Lt. Colonel Michael Francis Corcoran, USA (Ret.), and his wife, Dona, of St. Helena Island, SC; Major Kevin Patrick Corcoran, USA (Ret.), and his wife, Kim, of St. Helena Island, SC; Captain John Terrence Corcoran, USA (Ret.), and his wife, Frances, Captain USMC Reserve, of Franklin, TN. She is also survived by her nine grandchildren, Jan Yanuzzi and her husband Keith, Megan Cauthen and her husband Matt, Beth Davidson and her husband Kenton, Sam McChrystal and his wife Stacey, Caitlin Floyd, Brennan Corcoran, Sean Corcoran, Andrew Corcoran, and Dylan Corcoran, as well as her seven great-grandchildren, Grafton, Finn, Campbell, Townes, Grayden, Emmylou and Logan. As a devoted Army wife, her epitaph according to her late husband, Colonel Edward F. Corcoran, Ph.D can be summed up in three words “She never complained.”