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Marguerite Alice Penn Serier passed from an abundant and long life to God's heavenly kingdom on December 2, 2012, at 96 years of age.

She was born August 12, 1916, in St. Maries, Idaho, to Albert Lincoln and Concordia (Lotz) Penn. While still a young child, her parents bought and shipped a piano by train to their home in Beverly, Washington, and she began her lifelong fascination with the piano. Because her father worked for the railroad, the family could travel freely by rail back to the Lotz family farm in Cadott, Wisconsin, thereby maintaining contact with family members, which was so meaningful to her. Marguerite attended school in Beverly and White Bluffs, Washington, graduating as class valedictorian in 1933 from White Bluffs High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938 at the University of Washington majoring in English, German, and French, and completed her fifth year in Education in 1939. She was introduced to Kenneth Serier in the White Bluffs post office, and they married in 1940, moving to Prosser for two years where Ken served as Benton County Prosecuting Attorney. They then lived in Pasco for two years, and in 1944, settled in Kennewick as their home town. Marguerite and Ken had five children: Kathy, Janet, Sally, Freddie, and Molly Sue. Marguerite spent many years as a homemaker, where she honed her culinary skills, while periodically working in her husband's law office. She later worked for the Port of Pasco and Burlington Northern Railroad from which she retired in 1983. She was a talented and amazingly productive seamstress, and enjoyed a variety of handicrafts, the last of which were the many receiving blankets she made with elegantly crocheted borders as gifts for newborns of church members, relatives, and friends. Marguerite was an accomplished pianist and delighted in taking lessons until she was 90, continuing to play after that. Her home was always open to the neighborhood children and her children's friends, several of whom kept in touch through the years. A much beloved mother and grandmother, she was very involved in the lives of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Marguerite's family members who have previously passed include her parents, her husband Kenneth, her sister and brother-in-law Ruby and Chet Glenn, sister Ethel Penn Bretz, brother Raymond Penn, niece Dorothy Herrell, nephew Max Glenn and grandson Jonathan Reed.

Left to celebrate her life are her children, who consider themselves fortunate to have been able to care for Marguerite at home in her last days: Kathleen Reed, Jan Serier, Sally Serier, Fred Serier (Marjory) and Molly Bergez (Marc); her grandchildren, Emilia Keener (Bryan), Sam Reed, Frederick Reed (Diana), Marie Reed, Mae Serier, Kal Serier, Kelsey Serier, Shannon Serier, Riley Serier, Marc Bergez, Jr. (Wendy), Chuck Bergez (Wendy), Nick Bergez (April), Kaitlin Bergez, and many great-grandchildren; her nephews, Jack Glenn (Tina), Tom Glenn (Ruth), Frank Glenn (Christy), Gordon Glenn, and niece-in-law Karen Glenn; and many nieces and nephews and other relatives throughout the U.S.

Memorial Services will be on Thursday, December 20, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Grace United Reformed Church, 2500 West 4th Avenue, Kennewick, where she attended for over 25 years. Memorial contributions in Marguerite's name may be made to the East Benton County Historical Society, 205 Keewaydin Drive, Kennewick.

For online condolences, visit www.HillcrestMemorialCenter.com.

Published in Tri-City Herald from December 9 to December 10, 2012

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