Marjorie Myers | Docent, nurse, 87
Marjorie Grand-Girard Myers, 87, of Newtown Square, a former docent at Independence National Historical Park, died of complications from an aortic aneurysm Feb. 23 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Marjorie Grand-Girard Myers, 87, of Newtown Square, a former docent at Independence National Historical Park, died of complications from an aortic aneurysm Feb. 23 at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Born in Youngstown, Ohio, she graduated from Sharon (Pa.) High School in 1939 and attended Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio, from 1939 to 1941.
After transferring to the school of nursing at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, she earned her nursing degree there in 1944 and served in the the Navy Nurse Corps in 1945, when she married J. Martin Myers.
In 1950, she earned a bachelor of science degree from Johns Hopkins.
Mrs. Myers was a docent in the 1950s and '60s for Friends of Independence National Historical Park at the Todd House at Fourth and Walnut Streets, better known as a residence of presidential wife Dolley Madison.
In the same years, she was also a docent at the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
A volunteer nurse in the 1960s and 1970s for Red Cross bloodmobiles in Wayne, Mrs. Myers was a board member of the Pennsylvania Hospital auxiliary and of the wives' committee of the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Myers is survived by daughters Carol Miller and Susan Smith, and two grandsons.
A memorial service will be at 2 p.m. today at Wayne Presbyterian Church, 125 E. Lancaster Ave, Wayne. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery in Mercersburg, Pa.