Richalnd Parish Obituary of Marjorie Freeland Eubanks Wiggins Marus
as Printed in the Richland Beacon News-June 3, 1999 with some
additions by the submitter
Submitted by Dot Golliher

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Marjorie Freeland Eubanks Wiggins Marus

Funeral services for Marjorie Freeland Marus,78 of
Rayville, Louisiana, were held at 10:30 A.M. on Wednesday
May 26, 1999 at the Mulhearn Funeral Home in Rayville
with the Revs. Johnny Smith and Bill Griffin officiating.
Burial followed in the Rayville Masonic Cemetery.
Mrs. Marus died Monday, May 24, 1999 at the Richardson
Medical Center in Rayville.

Mrs. Marus was a member of the Rayville United Methodist
Church and a very talented lady who took great joy in
beautiful jewelry and clothes. Even during her stay in
the Nursing Home she got up daily and dressed and took
care of her personal grooming as if she were going out 
for the day.

She was a theatre costume designer for Oklahoma City
Theatre Group before coming back to her home town of
Rayville. She did  costume designing and creating for
Little Theatre of Monroe after returning to Rayville.

Marjorie had a stroke that took away her ability to 
speak a number of years ago,yet she remained very full 
of life. She enjoyed company and loved to show them
her scrapbooks of her creations and share with them 
the pieces she had done in china painting. She went 
about the nursing home visiting others whom she knew 
and stayed busy with various crafts that she enjoyed
doing for as long as she was able, all the while being
dressed as if she were going out for other activities.
She could not speak but she did communicate with others
and they knew that she was delighted to see them.

She was preceeded in death by her parents Robert Freeland 
and Annie Cade Freeland, two brothers H.J. Freeland and
Carl Freeland, and three husbands, Lionel Eubanks, Frank
Wiggins Jr. and Lloyd Marus.

Survivors include a very special friend, Mrs. Kaye Perrit
of Rayville, La., a son Jerry Wiggins of San Antonio, Texas,
two daughters-Linda Hammett of Bastrop, La. and Judy 
Theobald of Kansas City,MO;one brother-Vernon Freeland of
Rayville, La; two sisters-Juanita Bizzell of Yukon, OK and 
Evelyn Dark of West Monroe, La; six grandchildren, numerous
neices and nephews and one aunt-Nannie Mae Golliher of
Monroe, La; and a host of friends.

Serving as pallbearers were Randall Dark,Fred Freeland,
Pat Golliher, Bob Johnson, Fred Perritt and Gary Freeland.