Biographical Information:
Marcia was delivered by Doc Leitner of Piermont. She was the youngest of four children born to Corolyn Currier Tanner and John Kimberly Mumford.
In 1915 the N.Y. State Census recorded Marcia residing in Coxsackie, A.D. 01, E.D. 04, Greene County, New York. According to the 1920 U.S. Census the family was registered between entries for numbers 15 and 17 Lansing Avenue, Troy City, Ward 5, 1st District, in Rensselaer County, N.Y., where Corolyn had been a house mother at the Emma Willard School. Marcia and her siblings spent a good deal of their youth on a farm (Shadow Lake) owned until 1922 by their father in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township, Upstate New York.
Marcia graduated from Miss Beard's School in Orange, New Jersey, in 1926. Among the faculty at the time were Lucie C. Beard, Alice Rumph, Maud Thompson and Katherine Binney Shippen.
On January 18th, 1928, Marcia married George Colton Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Rev. Stanley Brown Serman, Rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Nyack, New York, performed the service held at the home of Marcia's sister, Harriet Mumford Small located at 92 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. Harriet's husband, George Sumner Small, gave the bride away and Harriet's son, George, was page. The couple was to reside at 2255 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.
Sources:
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Thursday, 19 January 19 1928, p. 9;
The New York Times, Thursday, 19 January 1928, p. 15.
County News - Nyack
"Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Brooklyn are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son. Mrs. Park is the former Constance (Ed.: s/b Marcia!) Mumford of South Nyack."
Source: Rockland County Leader, Thursday, 20 November 1930, p. 3.
The couple had 2 sons and a daughter and eventually settled in Rockland County, New York. Their youngest son was given the middle name Kenneth after their friend, Dr. Theis.
Society and Clubs in Rockland County
"Mrs. C.C. Mumford arrived yesterday for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Nyack. Mrs. Mumford has been associated with the Emma Willard School at Troy for several years."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Saturday, 26 March 1932, p. 5.
Society News
"Mrs. J. K. Mumford, a former Nyack resident, arrives today for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Shadyside Ave."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Friday, 8 July 1932, p. 4.
Personal Mention
"Mrs. John K. Mumford of Troy arrives Wednesday in Nyack for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Haven Court."
Source: Journal News, Wednesday, 2 August 1933, p. 5.
Marcia attended activities at Nyack Hospital and the Cub Scouts, was a choir mother at Grace Episcopal Church and a member of the Women's Civic League of Nyack.
Sources: Journal News, Thursday, 2 February 1933, p. 5, Two Hundred Attend Tea of Nyack Hospital Auxiliary;
Journal News, Wednesday, 21 May 1941, p. 5, To Attend Boy Scout Benefit;
Journal News, Wednesday, 2 December, 1942, p. 7, Record Year for Marriages, More At Grace Church Than In Any Other Year;
Journal News, Friday, 19 May 1944, p. 5, Playground Will Re-Open On July 10.
During WWII, Marcia worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Nyack Hospital, an experience which led to her becoming a licensed practical nurse. She was a team captain for the 1945 Nyack Y(MCA) Drive.
Source: Journal News 19 April 1945, p. 2 (cont. from p. 1:), Nyack Y Drive Workers to Start Canvass on May 1st.
In 1940 the family resided at 219 Piermont Avenue in South Nyack. At home her children remembered her playing the piano and banging out songs from Tin Pan Alley and the Roaring Twenties. Marcia became a widow at the age of 44. She and fellow widower, Judge Mortimer B. Patterson, became good friends for a few years.
Marcia Park worked for many years as a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York, before she transferred to Summit Park Hospital, where she was in charge of the night shift until her retirement.
Marcia lived on Old Haverstraw Road in Congers. Her beloved dogs, Mr. Dugan (named after the delivery man of the bakery by the same name) and Arnold, and her dear neighbors, the Heath family, kept an eye on her!
Mrs. Park wrote poetry and quoted her favorite writers regularly:
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "First Fig", Dorothy Parker's "They say of me and so they should...", and Shakespeare's Polonius ("Hamlet", Act 1, Scene III) -
"This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!"
Marty must certainly have been proud of her son, John Kenneth, when he received his M.A. in Music from UVM in 1963:
"John Kenneth Park, B.S. (Fredonia), 1957; North Tonawanda, N. Y. Thesis: The Horn Scoring Technique of Brahms as Represented in the Symphonies."
Source: https://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/zoo/archive/catalogue/6364cat_ug.pdf
After retiring Mrs. Park moved to Croton-on-Hudson and was a neighbor to her cousin, Dr. Cynthia Westcott (see NY Times obituary from March 24th 1983), enjoying and helping Dr. Westcott to care for the beautiful roses she kept in the garden.
Marty was a fan of Lou Piniella, Carl Yastrzemski and a huge Ted Williams fan. In later years she followed the NY Mets. When she moved south, the Braves became her favorite baseball team with Smoltzie, Maddux and Glavine.
Marcia, also referred to as "Nana" by her children's descendants, had many hobbies, and she will certainly be remembered for the countless ceramic, egg and Christmas decorations she distributed among her family members and friends. She also enjoyed needlework, crocheting blankets, sewing clothes and finishing a cross stich tapestry.
Mrs. Park removed to Simpsonville, South Carolina, in 1989, where she lived with her daughter for many years. She made friends quickly at the Forest Lake community. In her late 90's Marcia resided at Greenville Place, an assisted living facility.
From time to time Marcia recalled what her mother, Corolyn, had said, "there comes a time when we all have to take our little trip and it will be alright." Mrs. Park reached the ripe old age of 100, becoming a centenarian. Five months later she passed away at St. Frances Hospital in Greenville. She was survived by her daughter, her son and daughter-in-law, 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The gravesites of Marcia's mother, Corolyn Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and Marcia's aunts, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947) and Harriet Mary Tanner Bulley (d. January 14th 1938 - NYTimes 15Jan1938 Obituary) have not yet been located. Marcia's maternal grandparents were Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
Marcia was delivered by Doc Leitner of Piermont. She was the youngest of four children born to Corolyn Currier Tanner and John Kimberly Mumford.
In 1915 the N.Y. State Census recorded Marcia residing in Coxsackie, A.D. 01, E.D. 04, Greene County, New York. According to the 1920 U.S. Census the family was registered between entries for numbers 15 and 17 Lansing Avenue, Troy City, Ward 5, 1st District, in Rensselaer County, N.Y., where Corolyn had been a house mother at the Emma Willard School. Marcia and her siblings spent a good deal of their youth on a farm (Shadow Lake) owned until 1922 by their father in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township, Upstate New York.
Marcia graduated from Miss Beard's School in Orange, New Jersey, in 1926. Among the faculty at the time were Lucie C. Beard, Alice Rumph, Maud Thompson and Katherine Binney Shippen.
On January 18th, 1928, Marcia married George Colton Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Rev. Stanley Brown Serman, Rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Nyack, New York, performed the service held at the home of Marcia's sister, Harriet Mumford Small located at 92 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. Harriet's husband, George Sumner Small, gave the bride away and Harriet's son, George, was page. The couple was to reside at 2255 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.
Sources:
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Thursday, 19 January 19 1928, p. 9;
The New York Times, Thursday, 19 January 1928, p. 15.
County News - Nyack
"Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Brooklyn are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son. Mrs. Park is the former Constance (Ed.: s/b Marcia!) Mumford of South Nyack."
Source: Rockland County Leader, Thursday, 20 November 1930, p. 3.
The couple had 2 sons and a daughter and eventually settled in Rockland County, New York. Their youngest son was given the middle name Kenneth after their friend, Dr. Theis.
Society and Clubs in Rockland County
"Mrs. C.C. Mumford arrived yesterday for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Nyack. Mrs. Mumford has been associated with the Emma Willard School at Troy for several years."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Saturday, 26 March 1932, p. 5.
Society News
"Mrs. J. K. Mumford, a former Nyack resident, arrives today for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Shadyside Ave."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Friday, 8 July 1932, p. 4.
Personal Mention
"Mrs. John K. Mumford of Troy arrives Wednesday in Nyack for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Haven Court."
Source: Journal News, Wednesday, 2 August 1933, p. 5.
Marcia attended activities at Nyack Hospital and the Cub Scouts, was a choir mother at Grace Episcopal Church and a member of the Women's Civic League of Nyack.
Sources: Journal News, Thursday, 2 February 1933, p. 5, Two Hundred Attend Tea of Nyack Hospital Auxiliary;
Journal News, Wednesday, 21 May 1941, p. 5, To Attend Boy Scout Benefit;
Journal News, Wednesday, 2 December, 1942, p. 7, Record Year for Marriages, More At Grace Church Than In Any Other Year;
Journal News, Friday, 19 May 1944, p. 5, Playground Will Re-Open On July 10.
During WWII, Marcia worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Nyack Hospital, an experience which led to her becoming a licensed practical nurse. She was a team captain for the 1945 Nyack Y(MCA) Drive.
Source: Journal News 19 April 1945, p. 2 (cont. from p. 1:), Nyack Y Drive Workers to Start Canvass on May 1st.
In 1940 the family resided at 219 Piermont Avenue in South Nyack. At home her children remembered her playing the piano and banging out songs from Tin Pan Alley and the Roaring Twenties. Marcia became a widow at the age of 44. She and fellow widower, Judge Mortimer B. Patterson, became good friends for a few years.
Marcia Park worked for many years as a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York, before she transferred to Summit Park Hospital, where she was in charge of the night shift until her retirement.
Marcia lived on Old Haverstraw Road in Congers. Her beloved dogs, Mr. Dugan (named after the delivery man of the bakery by the same name) and Arnold, and her dear neighbors, the Heath family, kept an eye on her!
Mrs. Park wrote poetry and quoted her favorite writers regularly:
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "First Fig", Dorothy Parker's "They say of me and so they should...", and Shakespeare's Polonius ("Hamlet", Act 1, Scene III) -
"This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!"
Marty must certainly have been proud of her son, John Kenneth, when he received his M.A. in Music from UVM in 1963:
"John Kenneth Park, B.S. (Fredonia), 1957; North Tonawanda, N. Y. Thesis: The Horn Scoring Technique of Brahms as Represented in the Symphonies."
Source: https://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/zoo/archive/catalogue/6364cat_ug.pdf
After retiring Mrs. Park moved to Croton-on-Hudson and was a neighbor to her cousin, Dr. Cynthia Westcott (see NY Times obituary from March 24th 1983), enjoying and helping Dr. Westcott to care for the beautiful roses she kept in the garden.
Marty was a fan of Lou Piniella, Carl Yastrzemski and a huge Ted Williams fan. In later years she followed the NY Mets. When she moved south, the Braves became her favorite baseball team with Smoltzie, Maddux and Glavine.
Marcia, also referred to as "Nana" by her children's descendants, had many hobbies, and she will certainly be remembered for the countless ceramic, egg and Christmas decorations she distributed among her family members and friends. She also enjoyed needlework, crocheting blankets, sewing clothes and finishing a cross stich tapestry.
Mrs. Park removed to Simpsonville, South Carolina, in 1989, where she lived with her daughter for many years. She made friends quickly at the Forest Lake community. In her late 90's Marcia resided at Greenville Place, an assisted living facility.
From time to time Marcia recalled what her mother, Corolyn, had said, "there comes a time when we all have to take our little trip and it will be alright." Mrs. Park reached the ripe old age of 100, becoming a centenarian. Five months later she passed away at St. Frances Hospital in Greenville. She was survived by her daughter, her son and daughter-in-law, 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The gravesites of Marcia's mother, Corolyn Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and Marcia's aunts, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947) and Harriet Mary Tanner Bulley (d. January 14th 1938 - NYTimes 15Jan1938 Obituary) have not yet been located. Marcia's maternal grandparents were Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
Biographical Information:
Marcia was delivered by Doc Leitner of Piermont. She was the youngest of four children born to Corolyn Currier Tanner and John Kimberly Mumford.
In 1915 the N.Y. State Census recorded Marcia residing in Coxsackie, A.D. 01, E.D. 04, Greene County, New York. According to the 1920 U.S. Census the family was registered between entries for numbers 15 and 17 Lansing Avenue, Troy City, Ward 5, 1st District, in Rensselaer County, N.Y., where Corolyn had been a house mother at the Emma Willard School. Marcia and her siblings spent a good deal of their youth on a farm (Shadow Lake) owned until 1922 by their father in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township, Upstate New York.
Marcia graduated from Miss Beard's School in Orange, New Jersey, in 1926. Among the faculty at the time were Lucie C. Beard, Alice Rumph, Maud Thompson and Katherine Binney Shippen.
On January 18th, 1928, Marcia married George Colton Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Rev. Stanley Brown Serman, Rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Nyack, New York, performed the service held at the home of Marcia's sister, Harriet Mumford Small located at 92 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. Harriet's husband, George Sumner Small, gave the bride away and Harriet's son, George, was page. The couple was to reside at 2255 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.
Sources:
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Thursday, 19 January 19 1928, p. 9;
The New York Times, Thursday, 19 January 1928, p. 15.
County News - Nyack
"Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Brooklyn are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son. Mrs. Park is the former Constance (Ed.: s/b Marcia!) Mumford of South Nyack."
Source: Rockland County Leader, Thursday, 20 November 1930, p. 3.
The couple had 2 sons and a daughter and eventually settled in Rockland County, New York. Their youngest son was given the middle name Kenneth after their friend, Dr. Theis.
Society and Clubs in Rockland County
"Mrs. C.C. Mumford arrived yesterday for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Nyack. Mrs. Mumford has been associated with the Emma Willard School at Troy for several years."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Saturday, 26 March 1932, p. 5.
Society News
"Mrs. J. K. Mumford, a former Nyack resident, arrives today for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Shadyside Ave."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Friday, 8 July 1932, p. 4.
Personal Mention
"Mrs. John K. Mumford of Troy arrives Wednesday in Nyack for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Haven Court."
Source: Journal News, Wednesday, 2 August 1933, p. 5.
Marcia attended activities at Nyack Hospital and the Cub Scouts, was a choir mother at Grace Episcopal Church and a member of the Women's Civic League of Nyack.
Sources: Journal News, Thursday, 2 February 1933, p. 5, Two Hundred Attend Tea of Nyack Hospital Auxiliary;
Journal News, Wednesday, 21 May 1941, p. 5, To Attend Boy Scout Benefit;
Journal News, Wednesday, 2 December, 1942, p. 7, Record Year for Marriages, More At Grace Church Than In Any Other Year;
Journal News, Friday, 19 May 1944, p. 5, Playground Will Re-Open On July 10.
During WWII, Marcia worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Nyack Hospital, an experience which led to her becoming a licensed practical nurse. She was a team captain for the 1945 Nyack Y(MCA) Drive.
Source: Journal News 19 April 1945, p. 2 (cont. from p. 1:), Nyack Y Drive Workers to Start Canvass on May 1st.
In 1940 the family resided at 219 Piermont Avenue in South Nyack. At home her children remembered her playing the piano and banging out songs from Tin Pan Alley and the Roaring Twenties. Marcia became a widow at the age of 44. She and fellow widower, Judge Mortimer B. Patterson, became good friends for a few years.
Marcia Park worked for many years as a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York, before she transferred to Summit Park Hospital, where she was in charge of the night shift until her retirement.
Marcia lived on Old Haverstraw Road in Congers. Her beloved dogs, Mr. Dugan (named after the delivery man of the bakery by the same name) and Arnold, and her dear neighbors, the Heath family, kept an eye on her!
Mrs. Park wrote poetry and quoted her favorite writers regularly:
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "First Fig", Dorothy Parker's "They say of me and so they should...", and Shakespeare's Polonius ("Hamlet", Act 1, Scene III) -
"This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!"
Marty must certainly have been proud of her son, John Kenneth, when he received his M.A. in Music from UVM in 1963:
"John Kenneth Park, B.S. (Fredonia), 1957; North Tonawanda, N. Y. Thesis: The Horn Scoring Technique of Brahms as Represented in the Symphonies."
Source: https://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/zoo/archive/catalogue/6364cat_ug.pdf
After retiring Mrs. Park moved to Croton-on-Hudson and was a neighbor to her cousin, Dr. Cynthia Westcott (see NY Times obituary from March 24th 1983), enjoying and helping Dr. Westcott to care for the beautiful roses she kept in the garden.
Marty was a fan of Lou Piniella, Carl Yastrzemski and a huge Ted Williams fan. In later years she followed the NY Mets. When she moved south, the Braves became her favorite baseball team with Smoltzie, Maddux and Glavine.
Marcia, also referred to as "Nana" by her children's descendants, had many hobbies, and she will certainly be remembered for the countless ceramic, egg and Christmas decorations she distributed among her family members and friends. She also enjoyed needlework, crocheting blankets, sewing clothes and finishing a cross stich tapestry.
Mrs. Park removed to Simpsonville, South Carolina, in 1989, where she lived with her daughter for many years. She made friends quickly at the Forest Lake community. In her late 90's Marcia resided at Greenville Place, an assisted living facility.
From time to time Marcia recalled what her mother, Corolyn, had said, "there comes a time when we all have to take our little trip and it will be alright." Mrs. Park reached the ripe old age of 100, becoming a centenarian. Five months later she passed away at St. Frances Hospital in Greenville. She was survived by her daughter, her son and daughter-in-law, 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The gravesites of Marcia's mother, Corolyn Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and Marcia's aunts, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947) and Harriet Mary Tanner Bulley (d. January 14th 1938 - NYTimes 15Jan1938 Obituary) have not yet been located. Marcia's maternal grandparents were Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
Marcia was delivered by Doc Leitner of Piermont. She was the youngest of four children born to Corolyn Currier Tanner and John Kimberly Mumford.
In 1915 the N.Y. State Census recorded Marcia residing in Coxsackie, A.D. 01, E.D. 04, Greene County, New York. According to the 1920 U.S. Census the family was registered between entries for numbers 15 and 17 Lansing Avenue, Troy City, Ward 5, 1st District, in Rensselaer County, N.Y., where Corolyn had been a house mother at the Emma Willard School. Marcia and her siblings spent a good deal of their youth on a farm (Shadow Lake) owned until 1922 by their father in Lime Street, a settlement in Athens Township, Upstate New York.
Marcia graduated from Miss Beard's School in Orange, New Jersey, in 1926. Among the faculty at the time were Lucie C. Beard, Alice Rumph, Maud Thompson and Katherine Binney Shippen.
On January 18th, 1928, Marcia married George Colton Park in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Rev. Stanley Brown Serman, Rector of Grace Episcopal Church of Nyack, New York, performed the service held at the home of Marcia's sister, Harriet Mumford Small located at 92 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn. Harriet's husband, George Sumner Small, gave the bride away and Harriet's son, George, was page. The couple was to reside at 2255 Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn.
Sources:
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Thursday, 19 January 19 1928, p. 9;
The New York Times, Thursday, 19 January 1928, p. 15.
County News - Nyack
"Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Brooklyn are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son. Mrs. Park is the former Constance (Ed.: s/b Marcia!) Mumford of South Nyack."
Source: Rockland County Leader, Thursday, 20 November 1930, p. 3.
The couple had 2 sons and a daughter and eventually settled in Rockland County, New York. Their youngest son was given the middle name Kenneth after their friend, Dr. Theis.
Society and Clubs in Rockland County
"Mrs. C.C. Mumford arrived yesterday for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Nyack. Mrs. Mumford has been associated with the Emma Willard School at Troy for several years."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Saturday, 26 March 1932, p. 5.
Society News
"Mrs. J. K. Mumford, a former Nyack resident, arrives today for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Shadyside Ave."
Source: Rockland County Evening Journal, Friday, 8 July 1932, p. 4.
Personal Mention
"Mrs. John K. Mumford of Troy arrives Wednesday in Nyack for a brief visit with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Park of Haven Court."
Source: Journal News, Wednesday, 2 August 1933, p. 5.
Marcia attended activities at Nyack Hospital and the Cub Scouts, was a choir mother at Grace Episcopal Church and a member of the Women's Civic League of Nyack.
Sources: Journal News, Thursday, 2 February 1933, p. 5, Two Hundred Attend Tea of Nyack Hospital Auxiliary;
Journal News, Wednesday, 21 May 1941, p. 5, To Attend Boy Scout Benefit;
Journal News, Wednesday, 2 December, 1942, p. 7, Record Year for Marriages, More At Grace Church Than In Any Other Year;
Journal News, Friday, 19 May 1944, p. 5, Playground Will Re-Open On July 10.
During WWII, Marcia worked as a Red Cross nurse's aide at Nyack Hospital, an experience which led to her becoming a licensed practical nurse. She was a team captain for the 1945 Nyack Y(MCA) Drive.
Source: Journal News 19 April 1945, p. 2 (cont. from p. 1:), Nyack Y Drive Workers to Start Canvass on May 1st.
In 1940 the family resided at 219 Piermont Avenue in South Nyack. At home her children remembered her playing the piano and banging out songs from Tin Pan Alley and the Roaring Twenties. Marcia became a widow at the age of 44. She and fellow widower, Judge Mortimer B. Patterson, became good friends for a few years.
Marcia Park worked for many years as a nurse at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern, New York, before she transferred to Summit Park Hospital, where she was in charge of the night shift until her retirement.
Marcia lived on Old Haverstraw Road in Congers. Her beloved dogs, Mr. Dugan (named after the delivery man of the bakery by the same name) and Arnold, and her dear neighbors, the Heath family, kept an eye on her!
Mrs. Park wrote poetry and quoted her favorite writers regularly:
Edna St. Vincent Millay's "First Fig", Dorothy Parker's "They say of me and so they should...", and Shakespeare's Polonius ("Hamlet", Act 1, Scene III) -
"This above all- to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Farewell. My blessing season this in thee!"
Marty must certainly have been proud of her son, John Kenneth, when he received his M.A. in Music from UVM in 1963:
"John Kenneth Park, B.S. (Fredonia), 1957; North Tonawanda, N. Y. Thesis: The Horn Scoring Technique of Brahms as Represented in the Symphonies."
Source: https://www.uvm.edu/~rgweb/zoo/archive/catalogue/6364cat_ug.pdf
After retiring Mrs. Park moved to Croton-on-Hudson and was a neighbor to her cousin, Dr. Cynthia Westcott (see NY Times obituary from March 24th 1983), enjoying and helping Dr. Westcott to care for the beautiful roses she kept in the garden.
Marty was a fan of Lou Piniella, Carl Yastrzemski and a huge Ted Williams fan. In later years she followed the NY Mets. When she moved south, the Braves became her favorite baseball team with Smoltzie, Maddux and Glavine.
Marcia, also referred to as "Nana" by her children's descendants, had many hobbies, and she will certainly be remembered for the countless ceramic, egg and Christmas decorations she distributed among her family members and friends. She also enjoyed needlework, crocheting blankets, sewing clothes and finishing a cross stich tapestry.
Mrs. Park removed to Simpsonville, South Carolina, in 1989, where she lived with her daughter for many years. She made friends quickly at the Forest Lake community. In her late 90's Marcia resided at Greenville Place, an assisted living facility.
From time to time Marcia recalled what her mother, Corolyn, had said, "there comes a time when we all have to take our little trip and it will be alright." Mrs. Park reached the ripe old age of 100, becoming a centenarian. Five months later she passed away at St. Frances Hospital in Greenville. She was survived by her daughter, her son and daughter-in-law, 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.
The gravesites of Marcia's mother, Corolyn Tanner Mumford (1866-1949), and Marcia's aunts, Harriet Anne Mumford (1858-1947) and Harriet Mary Tanner Bulley (d. January 14th 1938 - NYTimes 15Jan1938 Obituary) have not yet been located. Marcia's maternal grandparents were Orphena Currier and DeWitt Clinton Tanner.
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