Marylynn Selzer

Marylynn Terry Selzer was born on the 19th of August 1950, in Laredo, Texas to Lora Ruth Lindholm Terry and Thomas Neal Terry, the third and youngest daughter. She died on Monday, the 12th of December 2022, in Houston, Texas at the age of 72.

She attended St. Thomas Episcopal School and Bellaire High School in Houston. She obtained a BA degree from Sam Houston State College and was a Texas Certified teacher in Art and Home Economics.

Before her teaching career, she was active in business from 1976 to 1987 as a Senior Sales Executive for Xerox Corporation, and a Registered Representative with the National Association of Security Dealers.

Her real love was teaching and inspiring young people in Houston area school districts. She worked in the Houston Independent School District, Stafford Municipal School District, and Fort Bend Independent School District. She had winning students in HISD art shows and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, as well as the Houston Children’s Museum.

She is mainly known for her love of life and the people around her. She was full of fun and activity. She visited the family ranch, the Lazy A Ranch this Thanksgiving, and helped serve a beautiful meal with the family gathered there.

Marylynn is survived by sisters, Margot Terry Heard and Lenora Anne Berry; her step-sister, Matilda Walker Henry; nieces and nephews Margot Elizabeth Heard Clarke and her husband Kevin M. Clarke, Thomas W. Heard, Anne Matilda Heard Patin and her husband Jeffrey Jude Patin, Cassandra Elisabeth Berry, and Laura Anne Berry Westbrook and her husband Steven Westbrook; thirteen grand-nieces and grand-nephews affectionately knew her as “Emmy.”

Friends are cordially invited to a visitation from five o’clock in the afternoon until seven o’clock in the evening on Friday, the 30th of December, in the library and grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

Interment is to be conducted at eleven o’clock in the morning on Saturday, the 31st of December, at the Lazy A Ranch in Bellville, led by Fr. Hampton Mabry.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Marylynn’s name be directed to the charity of one’s choice.