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Marion M. Thompson, born March 6, 1930, passed away peacefully on August 24, 2024, at the Foulkeways retirement community in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. She had lived at Foulkeways for many years and enjoyed the companionship of old and new friends. Marion was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and lived with her parents Eugene and Evelyn Meyer and sisters Marjorie and Mildred. Marion met her husband John S. Thompson while they both attended college. Upon her graduation they married and moved East in 1952. They lived first in New Jersey, then New York state, and finally in Pennsylvania. They had 3 children. She is preceded in death by her husband John and son David. She is survived by her sister Marjorie Halvorson, brother-in-law John K. Boaz, daughter Susan E. Katz, son-in-law Dave Katz, and Susan and Dave’s son Steven, as well as daughter Anne M. Marshall and son-in-law Edward G. Marshall. Marion grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in a supportive and tight-knit community where her home, school, grandparents’ home, and church were all located within six blocks. Her family’s focus on healthy living, education, playing classical music, and summer trips to the woods of Northern Wisconsin contributed to Marion’s lifetime dedication to good food, physical fitness, music and nature. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University. After working for over 30 years as a social worker in a variety of non-profit organizations, Marion cofounded a geriatric care management business called Intervention Associates with a fellow social worker. Although started as nonprofit, Intervention Associates became a successful for-profit business that helped people keep their health care, financial, and other personal affairs in order. The business was based in Marion and John’s home in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Intervention Associates worked hand-in-hand with financial and law firms to provide outstanding care to elderly and special needs clients, and earned an excellent reputation for not only providing care but helping to develop the burgeoning field of geriatric care management, both contributions being a source of great pride to Marion. Marion retired, the business was sold, and Intervention Associates is still helping families today. Marion had a wonderful combination of empathy, optimism and determination. She applied these with her intelligence and a joy that was unique, engaging, and invited participation. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and sister. Marion’s friends and colleagues were very important to her. She will be dearly missed by all who had the pleasure of knowing her. In lieu of flowers, Marion’s family encourages donations to be made to Doctors without Borders at https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Marion’s Celebration of Life will be held at Foulkeways Community Center in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania on November 2nd, 2024 at 2 PM. A second event will be scheduled in spring 2025 in Fort Collins, Colorado for Western region family and friends

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Marion M. Thompson

March 6, 1930 - August 24, 2024