Marjorie E Moberg

Marj’s father, Raymond A. Cook, was a farmer about 18 miles west of Minneapolis, who married his father’s terminal nurse, Josephine C. Berglund. Marjorie was the first child of the couple, followed by Paul and George. Marj was born July 26th, 1925. Paul died in 1936 at 7 years of age, and George died in 2004.

Marj first went to a near-by country school for her grade schooling, and then completed high school in a Minneapolis suburban school. She went on to study at Bethel College in St. Paul for one year, followed by three years at Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, Minnesota. She said she’d always wanted to be a nurse-- she went to Kahler under the U.S. Cadet Corp. Program, but the war was over when she finished training. She began practicing in a little place in far western Minn. for about a year before returning to Minneapolis where she worked in the top private hospital, advancing to head floor nurse.

She maintained friendship with her roommate at Bethel College, Ethel Jass, whose sister knew and invited her and her brother-in-law, Stanley to dinner one night. Since they both lived in Minneapolis, they left together on bus and streetcar, but no sparks flew. After a chance meeting they grew fond of each other and eventually married on November 17, 1951. Their marriage lasted 63 years until Marjorie’s passing. Marj is also survived by her brother’s widow, Deloris, and by 11 grandnieces and 2 grandsons, also by 6 each great grandnieces and grandsons.