Marian E. Van Laeken

Marian E. Van Laeken

Newark/Clifton Springs—Marian E. Van Laeken, 85, died Sunday (January 10, 2016) at the Clifton Springs Hospital.

Friends may call from 4 to 7 P.M. on Thursday (January 14, 2016) at the Paul L. Murphy & Sons Funeral Home, 127 East Miller Street, Newark. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 A.M. on Friday (January 15^th) at St. Michael Church, South Main Street, Newark. Burial will be in St. Ann's Cemetery in Palmyra.

Memorials, in her name, may be made to a charity of one's choice.

Mrs. Van Laeken was born on December 23, 1930 in Williamson, the daughter of late Abram and Edna Fisher Everdyke. She was a 1948 graduate of Williamson High School. Marian retired in 1993 from Garlock, Inc in Palmyra where she had been a secretary for over 20 years. She was a communicant of St. Michael's Church and had been one of the Port Gibson Seniors.

She is survived by her children Michael (Debra) of Claxton, Ga., Richard (Michelle) of Newark, Thomas (Joanne) of Las Vegas, NV, Deborah (Douglass) Wood, Shortsville, Sheila (Henry) Dittmar of Newark; 16 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; a brother Ralph Everdyke of Penfield; many nieces and nephews. Marian was predeceased by her husband Albert in 1990; six siblings Elsie Boeye, Esther Peters, Grace DuBois, Harold, Warren and Elmer Everdyke.

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