Marjorie E. Mace
Marjorie Mace, 73, of Penrose, died Oct. 2 in Penrose.
Memorial services were Oct. 7 at Wilson Memorial Chapel, Cañon
City. There was cremation.
Born Aug. 4, 1930, in Karval, she was the daughter of Earl B.
and Ruth E. (Dean) Engle.
She married Russell E. Mace, March 27, 1947, in Colorado
Springs.
A lifelong Colorado resident, she moved from Larkspur to Penrose
in 1958. She was active in her community as a Democratic election
judge and school bus driver. She volunteered to play piano, organ,
accordion or guitar for community and church events. She worked at
Fremont RE-2 as a teacher’s aide, and after retirement, as a school
volunteer. She enjoyed woodworking, bird watching, gardening and
painting. She also published several of her poems.
She worked in the antique business with her husband and traveled
coast to coast buying inventory. She also worked with her husband
in the cattle business.
She was a member of Friendly Visitors, Senior Nutritional Center
in Penrose, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, Chamber of Commerce
and was elected Citizen of the Year, Jane Jeffersons, Penrose
Library Board, Colorado Cattlewomen’s Association and Ombudsman.
She and her husband were parade marshalls and royalty for the Apple
Days Parade and Celebration.
Mrs. Mace is survived by her husband, of Penrose; children Judy
Calhoun and her husband, Nolan, of Cañon City, Russ Ann Kale of
Houston, Peggy Shoun and her husband, Steve, of Wetmore, Keith Mace
and his wife, Pennie, of Waynesboro, Tenn., Roger Masse of Pueblo
West and Ed Gilliland of Coal Creek; 18 grandchildren and 14
great-grandchildren; a sister, Esther Steckman of Colorado Springs;
brothers Dick Engle of Wildwood, Mo. and Dwight Engle of Great
Falls, Mont.; a sister-in-law, Ethel Engle of Palmer Lake; and
numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and double cousins.
She was preceded in death by brothers George Earl Engle and
Danny Engle; a son, Kevin and great-granddaughter Balley
Grisenti-Smith.
Memorial contributions can be made in her name to the Friends of
Hospice, Fremont County, P.O. Box 1796, Caon City, CO 81215-1796;
Orchard of Hope, 1330 Elm, Cañon City, CO 81212; or the Kirkwood
Memorial Presbyterian Church Memorial Fund, 0407 5th Ave., Penrose,
81240.