Marjorie Elizabeth Brundage Hadley

February 13, 1925 - April 11, 2018

Marjorie Elizabeth Brundage Hadley, who made torpedoes in a World War II war plant, died peacefully on April 11, 2018, under the compassionate care of ProMedica Hospice and the staff at Ohio Living Swan Creek. She was 93. She was born February 13, 1925, in Washington D.C. Her mother and adoptive father were Alice and William Pickral. She graduated from Fairfax High School in Virginia in 1943 and later entered military service as a WAVE in the Naval Reserve. After the war she worked as an administrative secretary in various offices of the U.S. government. Afflicted with Paget’s disease (among other ailments), she retired on disability in the mid-1970s. She was an artist, oil painter, and craftswoman. Over the years she practiced her Christian vocation in Pentecostal, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches, most recently at Christ Presbyterian in Toledo. She lived longest in Virginia, Nevada, and finally Ohio, where she moved in 1999. She married Gerald Giegerich in 1945, Robert Brundage in 1967, and Allan Hadley in 1988, and she outlived all of them. In addition to her three husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents and by two half-siblings, Parker Tebbetts and Ethelyn Goodwin. She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Christopher Brundage and Linda Farley, and an extended circle of family and friends who knew her and remember her. Cremation has taken place, with arrangements through Wagley Funeral Home in Adrian, Michigan. A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 5, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. in Reed Chapel at Ohio Living Swan Creek. Her ashes will be buried later in Carson City, Nevada, where she will rest in the shadow of the Sierras. Gifts in her memory may be made to ProMedica Hospice and Ohio Living Swan Creek.