Cowlitz-Statewide County WA Archives Obituaries.....Marier, Ambrose Harold 	  March 30, 2006
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Published in The Daily News on 4/5/2006.   www.tdn.com/obits
Ambrose Harold Marier was born May 15, 1932 to Joseph and Emily Bernier Marier 
in St. Paul, Minnesota and passed March 30, 2006 at home in Kalama, WA. 

He was educated in Catholic schools beginning at age 5, won Minnesota's State 
doubles championship in tennis his senior year of high school, and later 
attended 2 years at St. Johns College in St. Cloud, Minnesota. Soon after his 
schooling, Ambrose entered the Air Force, achieved the rank of sergeant, and 
excelled as a cook. Returning to his hometown of Hugo, MN Ambrose worked 
closely with his father at the family owned feed mill, meeting the needs of 
local farmers. By 1957, Ambrose moved to the Seattle area to become a cement 
mason and continued his trade in the local area by pouring and finishing the 
cement cooling tower at Trojan and the Kalama grain elevators after moving here 
in the early 1970s. 

Ambrose had many talents. He was an excellent cook and wine maker, fished in 
the ocean locating a catch when no one else was netting, grew a garden every 
year with tomatoes being his specialty, and performed with a choir and sang 
solo at school and church. He loved spending time with his family playing 
cards, horseshoes and preparing meals. 

It was in Woodland that he met his future wife, Sandra, at that time, his 
oldest son's kindergarten teacher. They were married November 28, 1975. 
Children in this family include Joseph Marier of Vancouver, Michael Marier of 
Kelso, Carol and Jerry of Kalama, step children, Stan Nelson of Bokeelia, FL, 
Beth Nelson of Davis, CA, and Amy Coleman of Portland. Other family members are 
sister, Germaine Tricola of Woodland, and brothers, Joseph and Quentin Marier 
of Hugo, MN, a grandson, Christopher Marier of Vancouver, and many nieces and 
nephews. Another sister, Therese Cox, preceded him in death. 

A memorial service will be held for Ambrose on April 11, 2006 at the St. Joseph 
Catholic Church in Kalama at 11 a.m. 

	


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