and then taught at UT and Marian had children five, six, seven and eight. In 1959, they moved to Austin, Texas, where Jack got his Ph.D.
In 1956, Marian and Jack moved to Columbia, Missouri where Jack obtained his Masters in Civil Engineering and Marian had children 3 and 4 and expertly ran things at home with little money but a lot of love and survival techniques. Here, Marian and Jack had the first two of their 8 children, developed lifelong friends and their love for Gulf Shores, a site of many return trips and much happiness with their family for years. Their marriage was a true partnership, with both equally contributing and sharing in the work, responsibility, success, tears and joy of building a wildly beautiful life and family together.Īfter California, they moved to Foley, Alabama in December 1953, where Jack was stationed next. In marriage and life, Marian and Jack were equals and stood shoulder to shoulder. to Jack's Navy base in Oxnard California where Marian would work as an R.N. They honeymooned by road tripping in a Studebaker Starlight Coupe across the U.S. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee while Jack finished his senior year at Marquette and then they married in 1953. It was there she met her love and soul mate Jack, a goofy, gangly, smart engineer in the Navy ROTC and whom, as they say, definitely married way above his pay grade with Marian. Marian left home and attended Marquette University, where she graduated with a Nursing Degree and R.N. Joseph Parish School and Mallinckrodt High School in Wilmette. Marian was born in 1931 in Chicago and raised as the oldest child and only girl of the four children of Jim and Florence Killian.
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Marian lived a full and complete life and hers was truly a life well-lived. Breen (Janu– December 19, 2021), 90, Life Partner and Wife to Jack of 70 years, Mother of 8 children, Grandmother of 13 children, and heroine to so many, many more, died peacefully at her home surrounded by her family. She is also survived by 18 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.įuneral services will be held at a later date. Survivors are her beloved children Stephen Kopp, Ellen Lucas, Stephen, Michael, and David Anderson. Marian was the daughter of the late Adam and Marie (Heidner) Klebes, loving wife of the late Donald Kopp and the late Gordon Russell Anderson, and mother to the late Theresa Greathouse. She especially loved her Sunday night and holiday dinners with family making her favorite German and other traditional foods. Marian also enjoyed vacationing in the Poconos, boating, skiing, and dancing.
Marian had many hobbies and interests, along with bookkeeping and accounting, she loved interior and custom home design, as well as traveling across the United States and Europe with her husband, Gordon. Marian worked as a bookkeeper for various local restaurants including Fox Crest Inn and the Lamb Tavern. She lived in West Chester and Springfield, Pa., before moving to Rehoboth Beach. Marian was raised in Collingdale, Pa., and graduated from Sharon Hill High School in 1945. 10, 2021, at Barclay Friends in West Chester, Pa. Marian Ellen Anderson (nee Klebes), 93, passed away peacefully Friday, Dec.