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Marjorie Ellen Hines Clark, 82

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 11 years AGO
| January 4, 2014 4:11 PM

Marjorie Ellen Hines Clark, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away Jan. 2, 2014, at Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center in Whitefish, from lung cancer.

Marjorie was born March 23, 1931, in Snoqualmie, Wash. to Marguerite Francis Kiser Hines and Walter Elden Hines, and was the second youngest daughter of seven children.

Marjorie grew up in the Pacific Northwest and graduated from Issaquah High School. Marjorie worked as a bookkeeper for Boeing and Arthur Andersen in Seattle until she moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in opera. She sang in the San Francisco Opera for a few years in the early 1950s. Marjorie moved to Denver with a friend, then moved to Libby to be near her sister, Bessie Griner. In Libby, she met her husband Robert and they were married at St. John’s Lutheran Church. Marjorie worked as a legal secretary in Libby until she started a family. She worked alongside her husband Robert for 30-plus years in their business Bob’s TV in Libby. In the early ‘90s Marjorie and Robert moved to Tonopah, Nev. to be near Bob’s brother, Forrest. In 1997, they moved to Pocatello, Idaho to be near their son, Edward. In 2001, they moved to Kalispell to be near their daughter, Colleen. Through the years, Marjorie’s passion was her family, making cookies, knitting and crocheting. She made many keepsakes for her family and friends.

Marjorie is preceded in death by her parents, sisters and brothers.

She is survived by her sister, Rose Marie Anderson; daughter, Colleen Turner and husband David; daughter, Barbara Roberts and husband Nick; son, Edward Clark and wife Christene; grandchildren, Selena, Danielle, Ryan, Jessica, Tabitha, Ericka and Raven; and great-grandchildren, Josiah, Rachell and Lily. Many nieces and nephews and numerous other relatives also survive her.

Marjorie had a gorgeous smile and a twinkle in her eyes that could light up a room when she walked through the door. She loved her family and friends and enjoyed spending time with them.

“Yes, Mom, we will all be OK, thanks to your love and devotion.”

Marjorie’s family would like to send a special thank you for the nurses, staff and doctors at North Valley Hospital, Whitefish Care and Rehabilitation Center, and St. Peter Lutheran Church for taking such loving care of her through the last few weeks of her life.

A funeral service will be held for Marjorie at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 6 at Austin Funeral Home. Burial will follow services at Glacier Memorial Gardens.

You are invited to go to www.austinfh.com to offer condolences, share memories and view Marjorie’s tribute wall.

Arrangements are entrusted to Austin Funeral Home

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