Marion Liggett Reynolds Lee, age 96, of Woodbridge, VA, passed away peacefully on July 2, 2016. Beloved wife of 44 years to the late Spencer B. Lee, who passed in 1985. Loving mother of Stephen W. Lee and his wife Jeanne, six grandchildren, Candice Sanders (Johnny), Ryan Lee, Alison Manzione (Chris), Jennifer Martin Taylor (Kody), Travis Martin (Kelly), Christopher Martin, and five great-grandchildren, Kerry, Drake, Brittany, Jocelyn, and Brooks. She was predeceased by her daughter Linda Patricia Martin.
Born in Baltimore, MD, the daughter of the late Roy George and Lillian Vial Reynolds, she wasa 1934 graduate of Central High School in Washington DC. After marrying in 1941, she and Spencer traveled the country from 1942-1945 with the Army Air Corps. After WWII they moved to Arlington, VA, then to Falls Church where they resided In Pimmit Hills. She retired from C&P Telephone/Bell Atlantic and in 1987 moved to Montclair, VA where she was part of the HOA for over 20 years and the first recipient of their Community Volunteer Award in 2007. During this same time, she also worked with the Agency on Aging and wrote the Eastern PWC Senior column for the Potomac News, as well as working with the Potomac Hospital Auxiliary for 20 years. She also participated in the Senior Olympics and Relay for Life for many years.
Marion had been residing at Brookdale Assisted Living in Woodbridge Since 2010. She was a dedicated member of the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City.
Marion accomplished a lot in her lifetime, she was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. During wartime she traveled the country with her husband Spencer and worked as a “Rosie the Riveter” putting rivets in the bombays of B-17’s. In 2005, she had an opportunity to fly in a B-17 when they were at Stafford Airport for a demonstration. After they settled in Falls Church after WWII, she was a daycare provider before going to work for C&P Telephone as an Operator and had become an engineer before her retirement in 1982, from what had become Bell Atlantic. During their marriage, she and Spencer built some of their own furniture, she learned to water ski before many women tried such a thing. Marion was an accomplished seamstress, making many of her own clothes and clothes for her children and grandchildren. She was very active within her community whether in Falls Church where she helped with getting the Falls Church Library built or in Prince William County where she worked with the Agency on Aging, Potomac Hospital Auxiliary, and wrote a Senior Column for the Potomac News (which she took on temporarily until they found a permanent replacement, it only took 20 years to find that replacement). here she became the first recipient of their Volunteer Achievement Award. She was 87 when decided to slow down and step back from all those positions. After retirement Marion also took up Genealogy (back before Ancestry.com) and traveled around the country getting information. While doing so, she decided to try and find family members of her adopted daughter Linda, Linda had come from a family of ten siblings. Marion was very successful and able to reunite Linda with many of her siblings.
The family will receive friends at the Mountcastle Turch Funeral Home, 4143 Dale Boulevard, Dale City, VA 22193 on Thursday, July 7, 2016 from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. Funeral service, Friday, July 8, 2016 at 10:30 am at the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City, 14391 Minnieville Rd, Woodbridge, VA 22193. Interment will follow at Quantico National Cemetery, where she will be reunited with her beloved Spencer.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, https://ww5.komen.org/Donate/Donate.html
