Marilyn Kay Webster

Marilyn K. Webster Obituary Marilyn Kay Webster of Arlington, Virginia, died peacefully February 28, 2017, at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, surrounded by her family, less than four weeks after she was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. She was 77. Survivors are her husband, James C. Webster, of Arlington; four children, Mary Burke (Tom) of Laytonsville, Maryland; James R. Webster (Jeanne) of South Riding, Virginia, John W. Webster (Theresa) of Ellicott City, Maryland, and Joseph C. Webster (Molly) of Arlington; nine grandchildren, Katy Quinn, Kelly Sturman, Thomas Burke, Lilly Chervenak, Daniel Webster, Kevin Webster, Eleanor Webster, Michael Webster and Sophia Webster; and two great grandchildren, Colt Quinn and Luci Belle Chervenak. Marilyn was born June 6, 1939, at Sacred Heart Hospital in Yankton, South Dakota, to Glen Alphus Johnson and Marian Vaughn Johnson. She attended Yankton schools but graduated in 1957 from North High School in Omaha, Nebraska, and worked as a secretary for Westinghouse Electric Corporation. In 1959, she and Jim were married at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Omaha. The couple moved to Pierre and Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and later to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Madison, South Dakota. In Madison, she was president of the Jaycettes, the Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary. The family moved to Arlington in 1970. She volunteered at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic School in Arlington when their children were in school and later worked as a secretary for Village Realty in Arlington and Federal-State Reports, a legislative tracking service in Falls Church. Marilyn was vice president and half owner, with her husband, of Webster Communications Corporation, which published several Washington food and agricultural newsletters from 1981 to 2007. Despite the effects of a stroke suffered following a ruptured aneurysm in late 1981, with her mobility and speech limited, she led an active life, initially in McLean, Virginia, before returning to Arlington in 1987, and at a vacation home in Ocean Pines, Maryland. She volunteered for Project Hope, a program of the ENDependence Center of Northern Virginia, in Arlington. She loved traveling, visiting Dublin to watch her granddaughter Katy in an Irish dancing competition, and seeing London, England; Brussels, Belgium; and Seville and the Costa del Sol in Spain. Since 1991, she has been a member of Our Lady, Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Arlington and a supporter of Call to Action during its campaign to support female alter servers. She was an avid Washington Nationals baseball fan, attending several home games each year in her electric scooter and traveling several times to watch Spring training games in Florida.