Here she is with some of her woodworking.
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Marji
Like too many others that we all know and love....Marji had fought breast and ovarian cancer......it was the breast cancer that metastisized and got her liver........
From what I understand, it was pretty fast and even a few days before she passed, she didn't appear to know it was coming....or didn't let others know.....so, I think that perhaps she didn't have to suffer much...thank God for that! Any of you who knew Marji knows that we'll miss her....and also that the chances of another gal like her showing up soon are pretty low...... I, personally, figure that God needed a bit of a nudge to get a good belly laugh going and so He brought Marji home to help:)
I met Marji at the same Strings N Things play that Durelle did......and from day 1 that Marji joined SnT, she was a blast and a blessing......a very special lady!
Suzanne
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doing a play at the community center at Christmas time. I had been
telling Jacob about a song I remembered as a child about the kid who
was getting nothing for Christmas. Then at the play, it seemed out
of nowhere, came Marji, yellow yarn pigtails, dancing around and
singing "I'm Getting Nothin' for Christmas." Right then, I got a
whole new view of Marji.
Marianne Drabek Memories of Marji Umbricht I don’t remember exactly when I met Marji (Dec 2003, I think). I was playing with a group, Strings & Things, at a Senior Citizen’s Christmas Party at the community center at the Harris County Courthouse Annex on Pech St. in Spring Branch. Marji was in the audience. When the concert was finished, Marji came up to me and said she had a dulcimer. She was interested in how I played the dulcimer since I choose to play the instrument left-handed. We talked about turning the dulcimer around and she said she was going to try it. The next time I saw Marji was at our dulcimer club and she had her left-handed dulcimer. We were the only two in the club who played left-handed. Several other club members write and eat left-handed but play the dulcimer right-handed. At her memorial service I found that we shared a lot of other interests such as needlepoint, knitting, and crocheting. I am sorry that I did not know Marji better than I did. We shared one other thing in common that I did not realize until she walked into the doctor’s office on March 26 where I was waiting to see my doctor and told me of her fight with cancer. I was looking forward to discussing this experience with her more but did not get the opportunity to do so. I know that she no longer suffers with the pain and illness of the cancer and I pray that her family and friends will find comfort in the Lord. Durelle Kincel April 12,2007
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Marji was a very talented lady!!!! Here she is with some of her woodworking. |