Marion C. Elliot

SHEFFIELD -- Marion Clara Elliot, 87, formerly of Park Lane, died early yesterday morning at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield. She had resided at Laurel Lake Assisted Living Residence in Lee for four years.

Born in Hackensack, N.J., on Feb. 1, 1917, daughter of Ernest and Julia Ann Ruegg Meier, she was educated in Ridgewood, N.J., and was a 1938 graduate of Hackensack Hospital School of Nursing. She moved to Sheffield in 1975 from Franklin Lakes, N.J.

Mrs. Elliot was employed at Hackensack Hospital and, after her marriage, as a private-duty nurse.

She was a member of Old Parish Church, and very involved with its women's league, making crafts and setting up for various church events. She was a former member of the Egremont Country Club. She enjoyed traveling to other countries, and had visited Switzerland, France, Great Britain and Scotland. She also enjoyed knitting and bowling.

While in New Jersey, she was a member of Franklin Lakes Presbyterian Church and of the High Mountain Country Club, where she won the women's championship golf tournament in the late 1960s. She also was a Girl Scout leader.

Her husband, William C. Elliot, whom she married June 29, 1940, in Trinity Reformed Church in Midland Park, N.J., died Feb. 12, 1995.

She leaves a daughter, Barbara Elliot Zdziarski of Mill River, three grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren.

FUNERAL NOTICE -- Services for Marion C. Elliot, who died Nov. 27, 2004, will be private. There will be no calling hours. She is survived by her daughter, Barbara Elliot Zdziarski, and her husband, Richard, of Mill River; three grandchildren, Peter Zdziarski and his wife, Melissa, Julie Jones and her husband, Eben, and Andrew Zdziarski. She also leaves six great-grandchildren, Peter Jr., Anna, Stefan and Alek Zdziarski, and Andrew and Julieanne Jones, three nephews and a niece. She was predeceased by her husband of 54 years, William, who died Feb. 12, 1995. She also was predeceased by her two sisters, Eleanor Schultz and Dorothy Young. Memorial contributions may be made to Old Parish Church through FINNERTY & STEVENS FUNERAL HOME, 426 Main St., Great Barrington, MA 01230. Remembrances, memories and reflections may be sent to the family through www.finnertyandstevens.com.