Marilyn Alice Carkin died Jan. 11, 2013, in her Buckley home. She was 76.

She was born June 25, 1936, to Ernest E. and Alice (Thrane) Moergeli, the fourth oldest among siblings Nadine Carroll, Donald Moergeli, Joan Estby and Richard Moergeli. After graduating from Enumclaw High School, she briefly attended Washington State College in Pullman. She lived most of her life in Enumclaw and raised the family in her childhood home in the Osceola area. Through the years she performed secretarial work at Mutual of Enumclaw, The Courier-Herald, the Department of Natural Resources and Rainier State School before retiring in 1992. In 1992 she and her husband sold their Enumclaw home and had a house built on the St. Joe River in St. Maries, Idaho. While hosting reunions of the family every summer, the area just didn’t feel like home and they returned to western Washington in 2004. She is remembered as a great cook who enjoyed the ocean beaches and clam digging, attending car races and watching NASCAR, chasing forest fires during the DNR years, taking trips to Reno and following the Seattle Seahawks.

She is survived by her son Brad and daughter Allison Houston. She was preceded in death by husband Richard “Dick” Carkin on July 7, 2008, after nearly 50 years of marriage.

At her request there was no funeral. Her remains will reside at Enumclaw Evergreen Memorial Park next to her husband’s.

A memorial gathering of family and friends will take place in the near future.