Marion Jay

Marion Cynthia Jay was born July 9, 1916 on a farm in Elder Valley, near Gilman, in Chippewa Falls County, Wisconsin, the daughter of John Frank Jay and Nina Mahalia Melius Jay. She was number 8 of 12 children.

Marion played the accordion and was part of a quartet with her sisters Norma, Evelynne & Elaine after accepting Jesus as her Savior while in high school. Marion graduated from Holcombe High School in Wisconsin. Then she attended Northwestern Bible College for a short while until family obligations drew her away. After helping her sister Elaine, she returned to Wisconsin where she lived with her sister Norma and served as co-administrator at Imalone Bible Camp during the summers and worked as a housekeeper for lawyers and doctors in the Chicago area in the winters.

After her mother died in 1947, she moved to Washington state to take care of her father until his death in 1964. She remained there for several years, working as a housekeeper until she moved to the Seattle area where she lived with her sisters, Muriel, Norma, and Evelynne. In the early 1990's she moved to Tennessee and lived with her sister Elaine until returning to Washington in 2005. She became a resident of the Lakota Good Samaritan Center on October 25, 2005.

She was preceded in death by her parents; 4 brothers, Lloyde, Robert, Ivan, and Wayne; and 6 sisters, Muriel, Norma, Doris, Evelynne, Elaine, and Joyce. She is survived by her sister, Gaylene Waterman in Bellingham, Washington.