Marjorie Faye (Robertson) Mathews, 75, left this Earth and traveled to Heaven on July 8, 2024. She was born in Excelsior Springs, MO, on November 15, 1948, to Thelma Faye (Vance) Willard and Junior Lee Robertson. She was a lifelong resident of Orrick, MO, leaving Orrick for only a few years and living in Tennessee and then graduating from Liberty High School in Liberty, MO, in 1966. She married Elton Dale Mathews on April 28, 1967. He was the love of her life and the center of her universe.

Marge, as she liked to be called, worked several jobs in her lifetime, from working in a body shop in Richmond MO, to being a secretary at Orrick High School, to assisting in running a gas station in Orrick, MO, to finally in April of 1993, starting at Sutherland Lumber Company’s corporate office where she retired from on June 28, 2024.

She knew The Lord and knew through this quick moving disease that symptomatically appeared in May of 2024 and took her in July of 2024 that He was in charge. She was not frightened, and she knew whatever happened was not in her control, but in God’s. She didn’t attend a church but was secure in her destination.

Marge was preceded in death by her parents; her stepfather, Fred Willard; and her son, Dale Ray Mathews.

Survivors include her husband, Dale of their home in Orrick, MO; her daughter, Dalla (Mark) McMullen of Orrick, MO; her grandchildren, Kailyn (Tom) Turner of Blue Springs, MO, Amery (Tanner) Ray of Olathe, KS, Autumne (Jim) Heffernen of Fayetteville, AR, Riley Mathews of Liberty, MO and Joshua Mathews of Warrensburg, MO. She has two great-grandchildren, Charlotte and Everett Turner of Blue Springs, MO, and a great grandbaby, she will never meet, due in January 2025. She is also survived by her brother, Delvin (Diane) Robertson of Richmond, MO; and several nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life for Marge will be held on Saturday, July 27, 2024, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Gowing Funeral Home, 202 Adams Street, Orrick, MO 64077.