Marietta Jo Colbern-Roth of Arlington, passed away on November 5, 2023 at 4:17 am. She was born Marietta Jo Colbern on April 13, 1928 in Bozeman, Montana, Gallatin County, to Kenneth R. Colbern and Sarah Edna Gouker-Colbern. They lived two miles south of Gallatin Gateway on a large cattle ranch about fifteen miles south of Bozeman. Her grandfather, Leonard Preston Colbern homesteaded the place but lost it in 1941 during the depression as he could not pay the taxes. Her parents separated in 1941 and she moved to Bozeman with her mother and sisters, Okarche Mae and Barbara Jean. She worked for Woolworth and later in Seattle. She quit school in the spring of 1946 when she turned 18 and married Edward Pearl Covey on May 12, 1946, and they had a son, David Edward Covey, born in January of 1949. In the fall of 1949, Ed and Marietta separated and Marietta moved to Port Angeles, WA, where her mother Sarah, brother Jack Gouker and father George Jacob Gouker lived. This is where she met Robert Dean Leatherman in the Navy. She moved to Seattle to find work and married Dean on April 22, 1950. Two sons were born, Michael Dean Leatherman, born January 19, 1952, in Honolulu, Hawaii and Robert Edwin Leatherman, born March 30, 1954, in Seattle, WA. In 1962 this marriage ended, and Marietta found herself alone again, supporting three boys. She bought a small place near Bryant, WA north of Arlington, where she raised her three sons. She worked for West Coast (General) Telephone Company in Everett. She met Robert Roth, and they married on May 28, 1965. He was a self-employed plumber and electrician. He had three daughters, Delores Jean, Renee and Collette. Collette moved in with Bob and Marietta when she was 12.
Marietta attended Everett Community College from 1972-1973 and obtained her high school diploma. She graduated the same year as her youngest son Bobby graduated, June 1972. She also worked for Bests Apparel (Nordstroms) from 1949-1950 and West Coast Telephone in Everett from 1962-1967 She chose to stay home to raise her three sons and stepdaughter Collette. She took in a 4-H member, Sasha Poage, until she graduated. Marietta has over 55 years as a 4-H leader and has held many local, county and some state offices. She received a 4-H Hall of Fame pin on October 18, 2001, in Ocean Shores, WA. She is an Ex-Chapter Regent, a charter member of Daughters of the Colonists, Pilchuck Chapter in 1993. She is the founder of the Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society in Arlington in 1985. She attended the Bryant Community Church, Bryant Grange & Sons of Norway in Stanwood. She has made a trip every year since Bob passed to Montana to visit her three sons on the way, as well as her two sisters and friends.
Surviving Marietta are her two sons, David E. Covey-Leatherman (Jan), Robert Edwin Leatherman (Maxine) both of Othello, WA. Stepdaughters Renee (Ken) Argent, Collette (Richard) Alcini of Reno, NV and Ernie Nyegaard of Arlington, WA. Grand children and Great Grand children: Ryan Leatherman and twin sons Kase & Wil of Othello, WA; Paige (Alton) Tomlin of Richmond, TX and Colton and Kadence; Jason Lee Leatherman, and daughter (Lyndsay); Sonya (Steve) Covey, daughter Alyssa (Travis) Walbrum, son Brayden; Monique (Mike) Krogen and daughter Michaela; Angel (Shawn) Tilton, daughters Morgan, Ava and son Wyatt, all of Arlington, WA; Todd (Liza) Argent and sons Andrew & Lucas; Tawni (Troy) Pearson of Morgan Hill, CA.
Robert Roth preceded Marietta in December 2003 and she will be buried next to him and her mother at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, South Everett. Preceded in death by Kenneth Colbern (father) who passed away in 1995 and is buried in Bozeman, MT next to his second wife Bunny; two sisters, Okarche Mae Vogel of Bozeman, MT and Barbara Jean of Colbert, WA. Son, Michael Dean Leatherman of Othello and stepdaughter Deedy Nyegaard of Arlington.
The family would like to give a special thank you to Michelle Boode Leatherman for assisting in the care of Marietta during her last year and last breath.
A Celebration of Life on Saturday, November 18, 2023, at the Bryant Community Church/Grange at 2:00 pm.
Memorial may be made to: Stillaguamish Valley Genealogical Society, 6111 188th Place NE, Arlington, WA 98223
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.wellerfh.com for the Roth family.
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