Marian Irene Gottlieb

Marian's family moved from Los Angeles to Portland where she graduated from Jefferson High School in 1949. After high school Marian went to work at Meier & Frank and met her lifetime best friend, Alvera Beck.

Marian met and married Jim Waggoner in 1953, and the marriage lasted 20 years. They had 3 children together - Jo, Scot and Ed.

While the children were young, Marian babysat and always adored having children around the house. She took the kids to the zoo, morning cartoon tv shows and Romper Room, active as a Sunday School teacher, church choir, picking berries and making jam and pies. Playful at heart, she always loved to entertain the kids with singing, putting on red lipstick and chasing them all around the house to give them a kiss on the cheek - the "Mark of Marian". She would wax the kitchen floor and put socks on the kids who then would "ice skate" in the kitchen to shine the floor.

In 1966 Marian got a job with the Portland Public School District as teacher aid. She began in elementary schools and then became a book clerk in the high schools in SW Portland. She moved to that area and began to go to Tigard Foursquare Church, where she met and married Chuck Cummings.

Marian and Chuck had several years of fishing, traveling, addicted to beanie-baby collecting, family time and church. As time went on Chuck had dementia and passed away early 1998. While shopping in the area she bumped into Ed Gottlieb, who she had rented from years earlier. His wife had passed away and they instantly bonded, within months marrying and enjoyed life together. After Ed passed away in 2007, Marian moved to the town of Marion, Oregon and absolutely thrived for about 10 years. Marion Friends Church was close by where she helped with the children's group "The Good News Club", and the Marion grade school was across the street where she volunteered as teacher aid in the kindergarten class. She was known by all the area children as "Grandma Marian" and she absolutely loved all of them! Special neighbors helped her out with mowing, meals, visiting and keeping an eye out for her, and she just loved living the rural life with children visiting her frequently.

Marian never met a stranger, even making friends with people in line at the grocery store. She was generous to a fault, giving and loving unconditionally and yet she never lacked. Spending money on herself was unheard of, and she ended her life with clothes in her closet that she wore over 40 years ago, as seen in her photographs.

Illness and dementia took hold in 2018, and it became unsafe for her to live alone, Marian moved into assisted living. The illness caused her to have many difficult times, and she moved to Copalis Beach, Washington to live with daughter, Jo. This lasted about a year and a half until dementia brought her to a point where assisted living was again necessary. After two years of living in McMinnville, Oregon she went to heaven, where she had been waiting to go for several years. The love that she displayed in her lifetime is left in the hearts of all who knew and loved her.

Marian is survived and dearly missed by her children, Jo Gosson (Darrell); sons Scot Waggoner (Connie) and Ed Waggoner (Pam); brother Bob Denton; four grandchildren; four great grandchildren, and one great-great granddaughter.

Marian was predeceased by her brothers Wally Denton and Jerry Denton, sister Ruth Peters.