Marjorie Beusse's Obituary
Marjorie Fields Beusse, June 28, 1919-December 26, 2013. Born in Duluth, Georgia, on June 28, 1919, to Cora Echols Fields and William Fields, their only child, Marjorie Elizabeth Fields graduated from Girls’ High School in Atlanta, Georgia, with highest honors, summa cum laude. After completing the Atlanta College of Business, she married Herman Hulten Beusse, of Decatur, Georgia, on December 8, 1939. Throughout her life she brought superb secretarial skills of organization, writing and stenography to her work for various churches in Memphis, Tennessee, including Bellevue Baptist Church, Cumberland Presbyterian Administrative Offices, and Second Baptist Church, for which she and Herman worked actively in the founding. Frequently Marjorie Beusse was president of church classes and women’s study groups and took pride in her memory of Bible passages and hymns. She was an excellent cook, writer and poet, delighting children and grandchildren with her annual poems in honor of their birthdays. As recently as last year, she created Christmas cards on her computer and emails letters to friends and family. She was generous with praise and engaged in the lives of friends, family and neighbors at Kirby Pines Estates, where she lived with her husband, Herman Hulten Beusse, surrounded by his furniture, crafted and carved through the years. Marjorie Beusse leaves her beloved husband, Herman Beusse, who will celebrate his one hundredth birthday on January 17, 2014, as well as her daughter, Rebecca Beusse Holman, her husband, Robert Griffin Holman, of Denver, Colorado, and their two children, Judith Holman Webster and her husband, Jay Leroy Webster, Pacifica, California and Joshua Conner Holman and his wife, Kerri Weaver Holman, Denver, Colorado. Her great-granddaughter, Piper June Holman, lives in Denver, Colorado. Great grandsons, Calvin Sinclair Webster and Hudson Beck Webster, live in Pacifica, California. Marjorie and Herman’s son, Lee Hulten Beusse, died at age twenty-four in 1971, after military service in Vietnam. As she requested, memorials may be sent to the Church Health Center or to the James W. Hatley Mission Fund, both at Second Baptist Church, 4280 Walnut Grove Road, Memphis, Tennessee, 38117, or to Crossroads Hospice at 1669 Shelby Oaks Drive, Memphis, 38134. There will be a private service for the family, who would like to express gratitude for the care of Jan Follansbee, R.N., of Crossroads Hospice, Dr. Lyle Bohlman and Mr. Chris Palmer; the caretakers of Crossroads and of The Caring Place, including Joy Hale, as well as the administration, medical professionals and friends at Kirby Pines, Thorn Ridge Cove, and Second Baptist Church. Our mother will be missed greatly by many.No services are planned at this time.Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Memorial Park Funeral Home and Cemetery, 5668 Poplar Ave. Memphis, TN 38119, (901)767-8930, “Behind the Stone Wall”
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