Marie R Kimball

Marie Rose Liptak Kimball, 94, crossed the high golden bridge of dying grace from this life to eternity on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 after suffering a massive stroke one morning while reading her Bible. She is now “Absent from the body and face to face with the Lord.” (2 Corinthians 5:8b)

She was the magnificent mother to Harold A. Kimball and his wife, Donna, (Georgia), Margaret Kimball Clifton and her husband, Brad, (Florida), and Regina Kimball Taylor (Texas); and the precious, adoring “Nana Re” to grandchildren Kimberly Kimball Lanier and her husband, Jody, and David H. Kimball; and to great grandchildren Ashley, Hunter, Tanner, and Emily Lanier (Georgia); and loving soul to numerous treasured relatives and dear, dear friends.

Marie was born on August 15, 1921 in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, to Regina Bieda Liptak and Albert Liptak in a home where she experienced her life-long favorite Bible verse, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

She attended Girls Bay Ridge High in New York. During WWII, while her brothers served at Pearl Harbor and the European Theater (Battle of the Bulge), she worked as one of Rosie the Riveter’s girls, soldering crosshairs on the Norden bombsights for the Department of the Navy.

While in New York she met and married the late Harold D. Kimball, U.S.M.C. In 1955 they moved to East Stroudsburg and reared their family, where she was both a homemaker and an employee of Tobyhanna Army Depot.

Marie embraced life with great capacity, enthusiastically enjoying its pleasures: swimming at the Y.M.C.A, rafting down the Delaware River, gardening, birdwatching, nature loving, reading, letter-writing, current events, a serious Scrabble player, cooking, sewing, traveling, family ancestry, painting, auditing art classes at the university, music, and dancing. Oh how she loved to dance. Also, she had a deep affection for her beloved companion, the late Figaro, her 14 year old tuxedo cat.

Having believed in Jesus Christ as her personal savior she was a faithful member of the First Baptist Church, giving of her time and talent and sharing her gift of helps and gift of hospitality. She was a loyal friend and an encouragement to all.

Marie loved her parents and was an adoring, caring daughter to her widowed mother, setting the example of Ephesians 6: 2-3, “Honor your father and mother…” She personified the worthy woman of Proverbs 31: 10-31. And as a widow for the last 20 years, Marie “fixed her hope on God” (I Timothy 5:5) and continued as a prevailing prayer warrior, morning and evening for all who were a part of her life.

Marie knew “The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two edged sword…” (Hebrews 4:12) and she understood that “For me, living is Christ, dying is profit.” (Philippians 1:21), for Jesus Christ had proclaimed, “I am the resurrection and the life he who believes in me shall live even if he dies.” (John 11:25), for “thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (I Corinthians 15:57).

A private victory celebration will be held at the convenience of the family.

Memorials may be given in Marie Kimball’s name to the First Baptist Church, 180 North Courtland Street, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 or The Salvation Army, Attn.: The Food Pantry, 226 Washington Street, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301.

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Lanterman and Allen Funeral Home, 27 Washington St., East Stroudsburg, PA, 18301, where online condolences can be made at www.lantermanallenfh.com.