Margaret Jane Parmelee, 96, passed Saturday, January 20, 2018 in Taos, New Mexico. She was born May 20, 1921 in Grand Rapids, MI and was adopted by Clarke William and Sara Jane (Williams) Wilbur. Margaret attended Michigan State College (MSU) & earned a degree in Institutional Management & Home Economics. Margaret worked at MSU as an Administrative Assistant to the Provost.
She was a compassionate, enthusiastic, funny, graceful and kind woman and a light to everyone she met. She led a wonderful life full of flowers, friends & family, cooking, canning, farming, gardening & travel to Europe as garden guides with George, and later her favorites to Hawaii and Tahiti.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 47 years George, her son David, her 2 sisters Dorothy Vork, Kathleen Sall, many nieces & nephews and 6 of her brothers from her biological family (Diemer) whom she met for the first time when she was 70.
She will be lovingly remembered by her daughters, Gail (Spencer) Orelove, Kathleen (Roger) Timmis, Laurel Hershiser; daughter-in-law Patricia Parmelee; 4 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren.
Services will be held by Gorsline Runciman Funeral Homes, Mason Chapel on Saturday, February 3, 2018 at Eastlawn Memory Gardens in Okemos, Michigan at 1:00 pm. Online condolences may be expressed at www.grbdmason.com.
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