MARION GRUMMAN PHILLIPS

PHILLIPS, Marion Grumman 91, wife of the late Ellis L. Phillips, Jr., and daughter of Leroy Grumman, died on Tuesday May 14, 2013. She was a painter, a poet, an aviator, a genealogist, an author, and a talented mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Marion's annual Christmas poems (and many others) are still treasured by her friends and family. She lived most of her life on her native Long Island, NY, but moved with her husband to London, UK, Ithaca NY, and Vermont before moving to Fox Hill Village in Westwood, Massachusetts. The family summered on their island in Moosehead Lake, Maine, her favorite place. Marion leaves behind a sister, Florence Hold, and a brother, David Leroy Grumman; her five children: Valerie Parsegian, Elise Watts, Ellis L. Phillips, III (Larry), Kathryn Noel Phillips and Cynthia Prosser; nine grandchildren: Andrew Parsegian, Homer Parsegian, Hardy Watts, Christopher Watts, Hilary Wieczorek, Aram Parsegian, Nicholas Zimmermann, Martin Zimmermann, and Sarah Prosser; and five great-grandchildren,?Seth Parsegian, Hardy Watts, Jr., Benjamin Ellis Parsegian, Macy Watts, and Burke Watts. All her descendants were present at a family wedding in April, where she was in great form. A full obituary may be read at folsomfuneral.com. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on June 29 at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Dedham, Massachusetts