Marjorie Teresa Conlin

Marjorie Teresa Conlin (Marjie), passed away quietly on November 14th, 2025 with family at her side. Marjorie was born on November 24, 1932 and was raised in Blackburn, England, the youngest of six. She enjoyed a passionate, robust life. As a very young girl Marjie was drawn to fabric and ribbons. She carried a small box of prized possessions, buttons, thread, ribbon, and scraps of fabric. She began studying sewing, pattern making and fashion design at the age of 14. She completed her studies and earned her City and Guilds certificate and began her long and amazing career as a very talented seamstress. At the age of 21, Marjie, her husband Edward and daughter Jill moved to Canada. Later they immigrated to Ohio where they were sponsored and offered better opportunities. Marjie found work in Cleveland, at a women’s clothing store, Milgram’s. She made hats and altered dresses for a period of time. Marjie would take in sewing at home as well as working a fulltime job for most of her life. Her trusty Singer sewing machine was always threaded and ready! She made many a wedding gown, bridesmaids dresses, altered suits and dresses, made drapery, pillows and bedspreads just to name a few of her talents. It has been said “give Marjie a needle and thread she can make you anything!” We called her sewing room ‘Marjie’s Magic Room’. She loved to travel and cruise. She visited Europe, the Caribbean, and Canada many times. Marjie was widowed from her second husband Mario and in her mid-sixties she moved to the Florida Keys. She took up watercolor painting there and became very successful at it. Filling her home with beautiful paintings. While in Marathon she met Jack. He was an enthusiastic golfer and encouraged her to take up the sport. She said “I don’t have time to hit a ball with a stick, up and down a field” but at the age of sixty-five she began to play golf. She was exceptionally good at it in spite of never playing a sport in her life. She continued to play until she was 92! Marjie built five homes. She enjoyed planning and designing them. Her favorite was the last one, in the harbor, at Johnathan’s Landing in Jupiter, Florida. She was a book worm! She loved a good murder mystery. When her vision declined, she chose audio books and enjoyed listening to the stories only if they were read by Men! She could read up to eight books a week. In the last few years, she has been very active in the community with locals helping locals, by sewing life sized dogs for children with life threatening illnesses. Her eyesight had deteriorated with macular and sewing became challenging but she was passionate about creating the dogs for the children. She said “the dogs come alive when I put their eyes in” she filled them with so much love too. Her sewing room was now called ‘The Dog House’. Chasin a Dream foundation offered her dogs to the children and she loved receiving pictures of the children with their dogs. Marjie lived a full life. She loved her family and friends. She will be dearly missed by all that had the good fortune to know her. Marjorie is survived by daughter, Jill (Emmanual) ; son, John (Sarah); grandchildren, Elizabeth (Amber), Peter (Thailyr) and Benjamin; step-daughter, Susie, step-grandchildren, John and Colleen; brother, Albert; niece, Lynn (Bob), nephew, Alan (Lynn). She is preceded in death by her husband John Conlin. A funeral mass will be held on Monday, November 24th, 2025, at 11:00AM at St Patrick Catholic Church, 13591 Prosperity Farms Road, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410. Please do not arrive before 10:45 AM. The service will be streamed online at: https://www.stpatrickchurch.org/live-stream-mass In lieu of flowers, a donation can be made to Chasin A Dream Foundation: https://www.chasinadream.org

Marjorie Teresa Conlin

November 24, 1932 - November 14, 2025