Syracuse Post-Standard, Friday, November 24, 1989 p. B-1 & B-4
Lillian Marley Dies 2 Days After Her Husband's Death
Lillian Marley, the wife of one of Syracuse's leading civic and business leaders and a widely known benefactor in her own right, died Thursday, two days after the death of her husband of 58 years. She was 81.
Friends said Mrs. Marley, who kept a vigil at the bedside of her husband, Harry, during his long illness, died at her home at 121 Crawford Ave. not knowing Mr. Marley had died Tuesday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.
She had been in failing health recently and was unconscious in the days immediately preceding her death, according to friends.
Harry and Lillian Marley, who met at Syracuse University and quickly built reputations as dedicated volunteers and benefactors of some of the city's largest civic and cultural projects, were described by friends as exceptionally close during their marriage.
Some viewed their closely spaced deaths as symbolic of their closeness in life.
"It doesn't surprise me that they would go together," Syracuse University Chancellor Emeritus William Pearson Tolley said Thursday. "They had a storybook marriage. They lived happily together for so many years."
Joint services for the couple will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Temple Adath Yeshurun. Rabbi Theodore Levy, Rabbi Charles Sherman and Cantor Harold Lerner will officiate. Burial will be in Adath Yeshurun Cemetery.
Friends said Mrs. Marley visited Harry Marley each morning at the hospital, spending as much time near him as she could.
"She was so close, so faithful and so kind to him," Tolley said.
"I'm sure her visits kept him alive... After he became ill, he became her morning, her afterneon, her evening, her life."
It was during her daily visits to the hospital that Mrs. Marley, a longtime member of the Crouse Irving Memorial Foundation, became aware of a nationwide nursing shortage, and the strain it placed on Crouse Irving and other local hospitals.
Last year, Crouse Irving announced that the Marleys and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Lillian Marley Dies 2 Days After Her Husband's Death
Lillian Marley, the wife of one of Syracuse's leading civic and business leaders and a widely known benefactor in her own right, died Thursday, two days after the death of her husband of 58 years. She was 81.
Friends said Mrs. Marley, who kept a vigil at the bedside of her husband, Harry, during his long illness, died at her home at 121 Crawford Ave. not knowing Mr. Marley had died Tuesday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.
She had been in failing health recently and was unconscious in the days immediately preceding her death, according to friends.
Harry and Lillian Marley, who met at Syracuse University and quickly built reputations as dedicated volunteers and benefactors of some of the city's largest civic and cultural projects, were described by friends as exceptionally close during their marriage.
Some viewed their closely spaced deaths as symbolic of their closeness in life.
"It doesn't surprise me that they would go together," Syracuse University Chancellor Emeritus William Pearson Tolley said Thursday. "They had a storybook marriage. They lived happily together for so many years."
Joint services for the couple will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Temple Adath Yeshurun. Rabbi Theodore Levy, Rabbi Charles Sherman and Cantor Harold Lerner will officiate. Burial will be in Adath Yeshurun Cemetery.
Friends said Mrs. Marley visited Harry Marley each morning at the hospital, spending as much time near him as she could.
"She was so close, so faithful and so kind to him," Tolley said.
"I'm sure her visits kept him alive... After he became ill, he became her morning, her afterneon, her evening, her life."
It was during her daily visits to the hospital that Mrs. Marley, a longtime member of the Crouse Irving Memorial Foundation, became aware of a nationwide nursing shortage, and the strain it placed on Crouse Irving and other local hospitals.
Last year, Crouse Irving announced that the Marleys and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Syracuse Post-Standard, Friday, November 24, 1989 p. B-1 & B-4
Lillian Marley Dies 2 Days After Her Husband's Death
Lillian Marley, the wife of one of Syracuse's leading civic and business leaders and a widely known benefactor in her own right, died Thursday, two days after the death of her husband of 58 years. She was 81.
Friends said Mrs. Marley, who kept a vigil at the bedside of her husband, Harry, during his long illness, died at her home at 121 Crawford Ave. not knowing Mr. Marley had died Tuesday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.
She had been in failing health recently and was unconscious in the days immediately preceding her death, according to friends.
Harry and Lillian Marley, who met at Syracuse University and quickly built reputations as dedicated volunteers and benefactors of some of the city's largest civic and cultural projects, were described by friends as exceptionally close during their marriage.
Some viewed their closely spaced deaths as symbolic of their closeness in life.
"It doesn't surprise me that they would go together," Syracuse University Chancellor Emeritus William Pearson Tolley said Thursday. "They had a storybook marriage. They lived happily together for so many years."
Joint services for the couple will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Temple Adath Yeshurun. Rabbi Theodore Levy, Rabbi Charles Sherman and Cantor Harold Lerner will officiate. Burial will be in Adath Yeshurun Cemetery.
Friends said Mrs. Marley visited Harry Marley each morning at the hospital, spending as much time near him as she could.
"She was so close, so faithful and so kind to him," Tolley said.
"I'm sure her visits kept him alive... After he became ill, he became her morning, her afterneon, her evening, her life."
It was during her daily visits to the hospital that Mrs. Marley, a longtime member of the Crouse Irving Memorial Foundation, became aware of a nationwide nursing shortage, and the strain it placed on Crouse Irving and other local hospitals.
Last year, Crouse Irving announced that the Marleys and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
Lillian Marley Dies 2 Days After Her Husband's Death
Lillian Marley, the wife of one of Syracuse's leading civic and business leaders and a widely known benefactor in her own right, died Thursday, two days after the death of her husband of 58 years. She was 81.
Friends said Mrs. Marley, who kept a vigil at the bedside of her husband, Harry, during his long illness, died at her home at 121 Crawford Ave. not knowing Mr. Marley had died Tuesday at Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital.
She had been in failing health recently and was unconscious in the days immediately preceding her death, according to friends.
Harry and Lillian Marley, who met at Syracuse University and quickly built reputations as dedicated volunteers and benefactors of some of the city's largest civic and cultural projects, were described by friends as exceptionally close during their marriage.
Some viewed their closely spaced deaths as symbolic of their closeness in life.
"It doesn't surprise me that they would go together," Syracuse University Chancellor Emeritus William Pearson Tolley said Thursday. "They had a storybook marriage. They lived happily together for so many years."
Joint services for the couple will be at 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Temple Adath Yeshurun. Rabbi Theodore Levy, Rabbi Charles Sherman and Cantor Harold Lerner will officiate. Burial will be in Adath Yeshurun Cemetery.
Friends said Mrs. Marley visited Harry Marley each morning at the hospital, spending as much time near him as she could.
"She was so close, so faithful and so kind to him," Tolley said.
"I'm sure her visits kept him alive... After he became ill, he became her morning, her afterneon, her evening, her life."
It was during her daily visits to the hospital that Mrs. Marley, a longtime member of the Crouse Irving Memorial Foundation, became aware of a nationwide nursing shortage, and the strain it placed on Crouse Irving and other local hospitals.
Last year, Crouse Irving announced that the Marleys and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation
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