Marilyn McCormick, 89, of Winner, SD passed away on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 at the Winner Regional Long Term Care Center in Winner, SD.
Funeral services were held on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021 at 2 p.m. at the Mason Funeral Home in Winner, SD. Burial followed in the Winner City Cemetery.
Marilyn was born to Clyde and Leona Jones in Dixon, SD on March 1, 1931. She lived on her parent’s ranch/farm where she enjoyed climbing and exploring her beloved hills.
During her high school years, Winner became her home during the week.
She went to work as a telephone operator and worked there until she met and married Richard (Dick) Snow in 1950. They resided on several farms until they moved to Hamill where Marilyn ran the General Store, and worked in the post office, as well as taught Sunday School in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
She and Richard had four children, Cindy (Lucinda), Vicki, Brent, and Brian. She loved to work. Never had a dull moment between her family, work, garden, church, and just helping others when help was needed. She had a servant’s heart and showed it in the way she lived her life.
In 1960 Marilyn and Richard moved to Winner where she started selling World Book Encyclopedias. She wanted others to love learning as much as she did.
Later on, she would work in the school system helping Special Ed children. She went to school to get training so that she could do her job better and received her certification. She loved her work with them. Later she went to work at the Country Library where, once again, she was doing what she loved. Helping people with reading.
Dick became ill with cancer and Marilyn quit her job to take care of him until he passed away in 1986.
Keith McCormick came knocking on her door a few years later and a courtship that had started back in high school resumed. They were married in 1990 in Winner. They made their home in Valentine, NE where Keith resided.
Mom went to work at the Pineview Nursing Home. She drove their van for them and enjoyed meeting and helping people.
Marilyn was always active in church and loved the Lord. She was a light to all around her as she gave herself in so many different ways for the glory of the Lord.
She and Keith enjoyed several years in the Cherry Hills Assisted Living in Valentine, NE until health made it impossible to reside there any longer.
Keith McCormick, Marilyn’s husband, survives her along with her daughters, Cindy (Jim) Hudson, Vicki (Larry) Alter, and sons, Brent (Kay) Snow, and Brian Snow; two grandchildren: John (Calla) Alter and Christopher (Kim) Alter; great-grandchildren: Christian Alter, Aspen Alter, Sierra Alter, Sydney Alter, and Dayton Alter; step children, Linda (Ron) Eggleston, Kathy (Tom) Gunderson, Keith (Ronna) McCormick, and Mike (Sheri) McCormick, along with numerous other family members. She loved them all.
She was preceded in death by her brother, Wilmer Jones, her sister, Mable Powell, her sister-in-law, Janice Jones, parents, Clyde and Leona Jones, husband, Richard (Dick) Snow, her brother-in-law, Johnny Powell, her sister-in-law, Ruth Jones, her sister, Dorothea Newman, and her brother, John Jones.
Marilyn’s favorite verse was John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” It was her desire that all should have a part in that gift so freely given by her Lord and Savior. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the First Baptist Church of Valentine, NE.
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