Marilyn Tucker-Beesemyer

Marilyn Lamborn Tucker-Beesemyer

January 19, 1932 ~ January 20, 2016

Marilyn Lamborn Tucker-Beesemyer, a beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, January 20, 2016 of cancer.  Marilyn was born on January 19, 1932 in Logan, Utah to Mabel LaVerne Black and Willard Owen Lamborn.

Her family moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1936 and then to Ogden, Utah in 1942.  Marilyn graduated from Ogden High School in 1950, from Weber Junior College in 1952, and from the University of Utah in 1954 with a degree in Language Arts and a High School Teaching Certificate.  In 1955 Marilyn moved to Washington DC where she worked briefly in the Senate before taking a permanent secretarial position with Congressmen Dawson of Utah, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.  She loved her time in Washington DC.

In the spring of 1956 Marilyn was called on a 2-year mission to France, Belgium, and Switzerland by the LDS Church.  Towards the end of her mission she was asked to serve an additional six months in Marseille.  She completed her mission in September 1958.  Soon after finishing her mission Marilyn left the church.

In November 1958 she married William Preston Tucker and they moved to Mexico to live a life much like her pioneer ancestors. She had eight children including one set of twins. After living in Mexico for eight years she and her husband Bill decided to move back to the states. In July 1967, before the move was complete, Bill passed away.  With her eight children, all under the age of eight, she finished the move to Buena Park, CA to start a new life. The next many years were the hardest years of her life.

Newly widowed and having lived outside the USA for most of her adult life Marilyn needed to find a way to support her family. Her secretarial skills from her days in Washington proved valuable when she got a job working part time for a secretarial service.  She also went back to college doing post graduate work at Cal State Fullerton to earn a Masters Degree and reactivate her teaching credential for California.  Over the years she worked many different jobs.  Marilyn never did accept a fulltime teaching position. Instead, one of her secretarial jobs led to managing a large commercial property.  This led her to buying and selling real estate. During these years Marilyn met and married Jay C. Beesemyer from Los Angeles.  Jay passed away of cancer in 1984.

Marilyn lived in Buena Park for seven years before moving to Corona where she finished raising her family.  In 1990 she moved to Temecula and a few years later to Murrieta.

Marilyn’s greatest joy in life was her children. She took great pride in each one. All eight of her children graduated from college or university and some obtained higher degrees.  They all enjoy successful lives and careers.

During the final weeks of her life, all eight of her ‘kids’ came home to take care of her.  The children she raised and cared for became her caregivers. Right up to her last breath she was surrounded by love.

Surviving family include her eight children, Wm Aaron (Diane) Tucker of Rockport, TX; Miriam (Don) Tucker-Barnes of Corpus Christi, TX; Wm Joshua Tucker of Lake Elsinore, CA; Johanna Zeitman of Murrieta, CA; Wm Seth Tucker of Lake Forest, CA; Zipporah (LeRoy) Watt of Corona, CA; Naftalia Tucker of Camarillo, CA; and Wm Nathaniel (Sarah) Tucker of Auburn, CA; her sister, LuRee Seng of Corona, CA; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by her two husbands, her parents, and her sisters, Carol Jensen-Becker and Maxine Lamborn.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 2 p.m. at Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd, Ogden, UT.  Friends may visit with family on Saturday from 12 to 1:30 p.m. at the mortuary.  Interment, Lindquist’s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.