Marian E. Graven

Marian E. Graven of Bradenton, FL and Fa-yetteville, PA passed into the hands of the Lord on May 20, 2010 at Harris-burg Hospital. She was born in Brook-lyn, NY in 1931 to Lilian and Charles Garone and was one of four children. Her death ends 57 years of a happy and loving marriage to Richard Graven. She is survived by her five wonderful children, Eric, Anita, Lisa, Gail and Paul and their spouses. Marian is also survived by her brother, Neal plus nine wonderful grandchildren, Steven, Richard, Julie, John, Lind-say, Sarah, Joseph, Mary and Lena. She was an elementary school teacher for many years and receiving her teaching degree from Queens College, NY. Her avocation was cooking and her goal was to make recipes better. Marian's work is published in her cookbook, "Don't Cook Your Goose". Her other avocation was bridge and she developed a novel mathematical strategy to enhance her play. Also, Marian was a volunteer docent at the governor's mansion in NJ and the South Florida Museum. She was a wonderful mother and taught the values of love, faith, learning and responsibil-ity. As her life was com-ing to an end, she told us Jesus was calling and she was accepting his invita-tion. Goodbye Marian, job well done. The family will receive friends from 7-9 PM Thursday May 27, 2010 at the Thomas L. Geisel Fu-neral Home, 333 Falling Spring Road Chambers-burg, PA. Funeral services will be conducted at 10AM Friday May 28, 2010 at Solomon's Evan-gelical Lutheran Church 4856 Wayne Road Cham-bersburg, PA. Private in-terment will be at Indian-town Gap National Cemetery Memorial contribu-tions may be made in Marian's name to the South Florida Museum, Bradenton, FL 34205 where Snooty, the mana-tee, was one her favorites. Condolences may be expressed at www.geiselfuneralhome.com