Marion Volkman

Marion Alice Fisher Volkman passed on to heaven, Aug. 18, 2012. She was born Jan. 25, 1926 in Great Falls.

Her hometown was Choteau. Her family moved to Missoula in the 1930s. Marion graduated from Missoula County High in 1944. She attended the University of Montana. She loved the outdoors, horses, dogs and little creatures.

She married Jay Riddock Overman in 1946. They owned and operated the Diamond Bar X dude ranch in Augusta. In 1959 the ranch was sold and a divorced followed.

Marion moved to Great Falls where she met Maurice P. Volkman. In 1961 they married and lived 15 more years in Great Falls and 35 years in Whitefish on the east shore of the lake. They celebrated their 50th anniversary last November.

Marion loved to golf and was an active member in the women’s golf association at the Meadowlark Country Club in Great Falls. She loved to read and was a wonderful cook. She always looked forward to planting her geraniums in the spring. She was an avid sports fan. She was proud to be a Republican and was active in the Republican Women. Marion was awarded the Young Republican’s Americanism Award in 1970. She was a faithful Episcopalian and a P.E.O in Chapter D, Whitefish.

Marion will be memorialized at The Carousel for Missoula. Seattle Sue was adopted by Maurice and Marion Volkman. Marion memorialized her beloved niece, Sue Fisher Beckwith with the name of Seattle Sue.

Marion was preceded by her father, Ben Herr Fisher; mother, Florence E. d’Evers Fisher; and daughter-in-law, Becky Volkman. She is survived by her brother, Glen Fisher (Muriel), of Bellevue, Wash.; beloved husband, Maurice Volkman; children, Clyde Overman (Susie), of Wenatchee, Wash., Ben Overman (Carolyn), of Missoula, Morrie Volkman Jr., of Belgrade, and Debora Volkman Liberko (John), of Missoula. She has 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at All Saints Episcopal Church in Columbia Falls, Saturday, Sept. 29 at 11 a.m. Arrangements are under the care of Garden City Funeral Home in Missoula.

In lieu of flowers, Marion requested donations to your local animal shelters or All Saints Episcopal Church P.O.1923 Columbia Falls, MT 59937.