Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home

CAMDEN - Margaret ‘Margie’ Marshall Smith, 79, went home to join the rest of her family who are waiting to share her smile and her kind loving heart, at her Merry Gardens home, Friday, February 6, 2015.
Born in Camden, July 4, 1935, Margie was the daughter of John and Alice Kaler Marshall. While growing up in Rockport, she attended local schools and was a 1953 graduate of Rockport High School.
She worked at various jobs throughout her younger years, and devoted most of her life as a full time mother and homemaker.
Margie was a member of the local chapter of the Womens Relief Corps. With her husband Charles, Margie was a longtime active member of the Penobscot View Grange in Glen Cove.
She enjoyed the family camp on Sheepscot Lake in Palermo. Family gatherings, cookouts, weekends with family on North Haven, all of which often included a good game of Cannaster, were favorite pastimes for Margie. She looked forward each week to Thursday evening Yahtzee games and Sunday afternoon rides with her step-daughter Lucretia Smith.
For the past six years, Margie has appreciated the care and concern of the staff at Merry Gardens, where she enjoyed friendships with the other residents.
Her generosity, kind words and love for her family and friends were admirable.
Other than her parents, Margie was pre-deceased by her husband Charles; two sons Larry P. Jameson and John Smith; as well as one brother, Bubby Marshall. She is survived by her son Leroy ‘Lee’ Jameson and his wife Cindy; her daughter Amy Moody and her husband Wayne, all of Warren; four step-children, Louie Smith of St. George, Tony Smith of Augusta, Angie Smith and Lucretia Smith, both of Rockland; one brother, Fred Marshall and his wife Bonnie of Belfast; three very special sisters, Shirley Marshall of Camden, Jeanette Nash and her husband Bob of Rockport, Bernadett Barrows of Union; nine grandchildren, Corey Jameson and Angela, Anthony Jameson and Sham, Andrew Jameson and Michael Ross, Tobey Moody and Brittany, Josh Moody, Brandon Moody and Allison; three step-grandchildren, Anthony, Jennifer and Alan; 12 great-grandchildren; two great-great grandchildren; as well as many nieces and nephews.
A celebration of Margie’s life, will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 12, 2015, at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland. Rev. Jerry Stone will officiate. A reception will follow at the funeral home’s 104 Limerock reception center.
Those who wish, may make memorial contributions to Mid-Coast Relay for Life (a local cancer support organization), 1 Bowdin Mill Island, Suite 300, Topsham, ME 04086.
To share a memory or condolence with Margie’s family, please visit her Book of Memories at www.bchfh.com.