Marilyn Warden's Obituary
WARDEN, MARILYN was born on Sunday, March 30, 1930 in Mason City, Iowa to Hermon Thomas and Anna Lorene Burns Manning. Her life’s journey was peacefully concluded at home on Monday, April 28, 2014. She lived a full life as a loving mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She took great pleasure in caring for her many pets throughout her life. She worked as a veterinarian assistant as well as working on her father’s ranch raising horses. She also taught swimming, knitting and was an excellent seamstress. Her favorite pastimes in her later years were crocheting afghans and watching the raccoons, squirrels and birds feeding outside her windows. She will be greatly missed by all whose lives she touched. Marilyn is preceded in death by her parents, Hermon and Lorene Manning; husband, Alvin Lee Warden and son, Alvin Wayne Warden. She is survived by children, Susan Lorene and Bill Thomas, Dorothy Carolyn Coker, James Manning Kendrick, John Paul and Sharon Warden; 10 grandchildren: Dawn Christine McCoy, Christopher Patrick and Heather Thomas, Jennifer Lorene and Jake Opheim, Walter Jefferson and Melissa Moorman III, Mary Frances Norwood, Michael Keith and Katie Moorman Jr, Christina Lee Surber, Anthony Manning Kendrick, Nolan Warden, Lauren Warden; 9 great grandchildren: Cody James McCoy, Derek Taylor McCoy, Michael Thomas McCoy, Tyler Andrew Thomas, Elisabeth June Thomas, Paisley Lynn Norwood, Savanna Elizabeth Moorman, baby Opheim, Tristan Morgan Surber: several cousins including Frances Marion Farr and Joyce Chapman. The family expresses our heartfelt appreciation to Rita Ogden and Vickie Brown with Home Instead Senior Care of Sherman, Texas as well as everyone with Grayson County Home Hospice for the wonderful care they provided over the past year. Interment will be on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 1:00 PM at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.
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