Marjorie Alice was born June 28, 1921, at home in Hubbard, Ore. to Rev. and Mrs. Edward Z. Yoder. At age 19 she married Richard W. Larson, whom she met while picking strawberries in the hills above Silverton, Ore. Prior to moving to Alaska she lived in Newport, Ore. In 1966, Marge and Dick moved to Anchor Point, Alaska.
Marge enjoyed feeding the wild birds and smoking locally caught salmon. She loved teaching women’s Bible study and teaching adult Sunday school classes. In her younger years, she sang in a ladies trio with her two best friends. Her greatest desire was to make others laugh, feel good, and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Before Dick passed away the couple would travel to the Denali area to fish and pick blueberries. Then she would make jam on the little cook stove in the camp trailer Dick built for them. In her later years, her great enjoyment was spending time with her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. When the grandchildren would visit her they always knew that she would fill them up with words of wisdom and she always made sure that her candy dish was full. Her life’s desire was that all her family know and live for Jesus Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard W. Larson; son, Stephen John Larson; parents, Edward Z. and Alice Pearl Yoder; brothers, Paul, Sandford and Ed Yoder; and sister, Lois Krieder.
She leaves behind her daughter, Kathryn, and son-in-law Kerry Engebretsen of Anchor Point; sons and daughters-in-law, Richard Jr. and Anita Larson of Ryegate Mont., Walter and Margaret Larson of Joliet, Mont, David and Diana Larson of Noorvik and Doug and Peggy Larson of Vancouver, Wash.; 22 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren; sisters, Kate Miller and Charity Laib, both of Salem, Ore. and many nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by the Homer Funeral Home.
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A visitation was held from 2-4 p.m., Sept. 29, 2006, at the Engebretsen residence in Anchor Point. She was laid to rest next to her husband Richard in the Anchor Point Cemetery. Memorial services were held 7 p.m., Sept. 30, 2006, at the Lighthouse Community Assembly of God Church in Anchor Point. Pastor David Edwards officiated.
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