July 25, 1932 – November 8, 2024
Bradenton, Florida – Marie Sandham Marjerison was born in 1932, the first of four children born to Harvey Sandham and Elizabeth Cunliffe Sandham in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Her elementary schooling began in Rolling Hills Elementary, and she graduated from Coalhurst High School before graduating from the Mount Royal College secretarial training program, and then from the Galt School of Nursing in Lethbridge, Alberta in 1953.
As an R.N., Marie was employed for the next fifty years in the medical field, including serving as an industrial nurse for the biochemical plant in Alberta, and an airline stewardess for T.C.A. airlines in Moncton and Winnipeg, Manitoba. Marie’s hospital and clinic training were in Edmonton, Claresholm, and Drumheller in Canada. Later, she was a nursing supervisor in Provo, Utah; Kapiolani Hospital, Hawaii, as well as Elsinore, Ceres, and Catalina Island in California…