Marilyn Stroth Whitcomb

Rollinsford – Marilyn Stroth Whitcomb, 75, formerly of Rollins Rd. died Saturday December 8, 2007 at Riverside Rest Home.

Born in Dover on September 19, 1932 the daughter of Otto and Grace (Titus) Stroth. She grew up in Rollinsford and was educated at the Rollinsford grammar school and graduated from Dover High School. She moved to Massachusetts where she lived for many years and returned to this area in 1977.

Marilyn was a housewife and mother and also worked at the Coffee Shop at the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital for a long time and she was also a waitress and hostess having worked at the former Cranberry’s Restaurant and 16 Third Street Restaurant both in Dover prior to her retirement. She was also a seamstress and had worked for a bridal shop. She enjoyed sewing and knitting.

She was a member and past president of the Dover Women’s Club and a communicant of the First Parish United Church of Christ of Somersworth.

The widow of Willis E. Whitcomb who died in 1993 and is survived by two daughters Nancy Cary and husband Stephen of Seekonk, MA, Cheryl Jones of Seattle, WA; three sons Mark Whitcomb of Nantucket, MA, Stephen Whitcomb and Gregory Whitcomb and wife Jennifer of Rollinsford, 15 grandchildren; two step sons Dennis Whitcomb of Lennox, MA and David Whitcomb of Denver, CO.

Relatives and friends are invited to call Friday Dec. 14th from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Tasker Funeral Home, 621 Central Ave., Dover.

Funeral Services will be held 11:30 a.m. Saturday Dec. 15th at the Tasker Funeral Home with Rev. Mark Rideout, pastor of the First Parish United Church of Christ officiating. Burial will follow in New Town Cemetery, Rollinsford.

Memorials in her name may be made to Seacoast Hospice Care, 10 Hampton Rd., Exeter, NH 03833.

Please go to www.taskerfh.com for more information or to sign the on-line guest book.