Obituary - Myrtle Haworth Marler

Memorial services for Myrtle Marler will be held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, Lecompte with Reverend Joe Bordelon officiating. Burial will be in Rapides Cemetery, Pineville, under the direction of Hixson Brothers, Alexandria.

Mrs. Marler, 99, of Alexandria, formerly of Boyce, passed away Saturday, May 10, 2014, at Lexington House.

During her working career, Mrs. Marler was a long time employee with Drs. Malcolm Denley and Robert Culpepper at the Pediatric Clinic.

Mrs. Marler is preceded in death by her husband, Joseph S. Marler, Sr.; parents, Percy Taylor and Alice Earnest Haworth; sisters, Mable Haworth Evans and Doris Haworth Perkins.

Those left to cherish her memory include her sons, Joseph S. Marler, Jr. and wife, Susan Larson Marler, David Marler and fiancé, Ann Soden Cross; daughters, Alice Marler Lafaye and Mary Elizabeth Miller; friend, Melou James, who is like a daughter to Mrs. Marler and like a sister to Mrs. Marler’s children. Five grandchildren also survive her: Bryan Forbes Lafaye, Joseph S. Marler III, Nathaniel Robert Marler, James Clinton Marler and Matthew Rosteet Miller; four great-grandchildren: Brennan Lafaye, Emma Lafaye, Sydney Leigh Marler and Samuel R. Marler; nephew, Michael Emmett Perkins and wife, Edie and their wonderful children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Marler’s family would like to sincerely thank Lexington House and its staff, as well as Guardian Hospice, for the wonderful care, compassion and love given to Mrs. Marler.

Memorials may be made to either Holy Comforter Episcopal Church, St. James Episcopal Church or to the Lecompte Garden Club.

(posted on the Hixson Brothers website)

Obituary - Portia Shirley Matthews Chapman

Portia Shirley Mathews Chapman died unexpectedly from a stroke on Friday, November 22, 2013, in Lone Tree, Colorado at the age of 83. Shirley was born on June 23, 1930 in Toronto, Canada. Daughter of Corinna Fowler Mathews and US Navy Rear Admiral Bob Orr Mathews, Shirley's childhood featured frequent relocations, she attended fourteen schools. Her fondest memories were of Milford High School in Milford Pennsylvania. She graduated from Western High School, Washington D.C., in 1947. Shirley attended Goucher College and the University of North Carolina, where she was an Alpha Gamma Delta and became an avid Tar Heels basketball fan. She married in 1950 and has four children. After divorcing, Shirley returned to college at University of Colorado, completing her B.S. in Psychology in 1974. Shirley was an accomplished parliamentarian, a Professional Registered Parliamentarian of the National Association of Parliamentarians and a Certified Professional Parliamentarian of the American Institute of Parliamentarians. She was active in several units, including the Professional Parliamentary Research Unit and held the offices of Vice-President and Treasurer of the Colorado Association of Parliamentarians, as well as being active on committees. She frequently taught parliamentary law by chairing public workshops, units and classes. Shirley often wrote bylaws, was a convention parliamentarian, wrote and published articles and skits, and made speeches about General Robert, author of Robert's Rules of Order and her grandfather. Most of all, Shirley enjoyed consulting and unraveling esoteric parliamentary problems. In addition, Shirley worked at Safeway for many years and served as Union Steward and Recorder/Secretary for UFCW Local 7. She loved playing games, camping, cooking, and discussing metaphysical and religious thinking. Shirley dedicated herself to her children and to her love of Parliamentary Law. She is survived by her four children: Robert Warren Chapman, William Mathews Chapman, Corinna Chapman Fry Robert, and Patricia Lilise Chapman Kuehmann. She is additionally survived by ten grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Services will be held at a later date. (Published in the Denver Post on December 8, 2013)