Marion Susanne Morrill's Obituary
Marion Susanne Morrill, nee Conrad, was born on April 3, 1929, in Essen, Germany. In 1942 her family moved to the town of Bingen am Rhein. In 1956 Marion immigrated to the United States with her husband and young son. She initially lived in New York City until her husband received orders to report to Korea for military deployment. Marion and her husband separated after arriving in California and she took several jobs over the next several years while raising her son. In 1961 Marion established her first business, an assisted living facility in San Francisco. Over the next 24 years, Marion established and operated several nursing homes in Northern California including a convalescent hospital. In 1985 Marion retired and joined her son, who was serving overseas at the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. Over the next several years Marion traveled to visit her son during assignments in West Berlin and Kinshasa, Zaire. She worked temporarily as assistant manager for the Muscat Employees Association in Oman, German-English translator/transcriber in West Berlin, and as temporary assistant Consul at the British Embassy in Kinshasa. During this period Marion lived in Clearwater, Florida for a year.
In 1991, Marion joined her son in the Washington, D.C. area after he returned from overseas service. She lived first in Manassas until 1999 when she moved to Lansdowne, Virginia. Marion was one of the original unit owners in Riverbend at Leisure World. She lived at Riverbend until her death on September 19, 2023, relying increasingly on her son to take care of her. She was 94 years old. Marion was a parishioner at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Ashburn, Virginia. She was fluent in German, French and English and earned a B.A. from Syracuse University in New York.
Marion is survived by her son, Frank, who lives in Riverbend; sister Margarete, who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina; brother Baldur and his wife Hannelore, who live in Cologne, Germany; nephew Juergen and his wife Barbara and their sons who live in the Boston area, and niece Birgit and her son who live in Cologne, Germany.
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