MARION SEYMOUR

1930 - 2021

MARION SEYMOUR
1930–2021
Marion Seymour passed away peacefully in her home in Santa Fe on July 22, 2021. She is survived by her brother, Jim Seymour. She was born in New York City in 1930 and grew up in upstate New York. She attended Middlebury College in Vermont, and in 1967, she earned a Master's Degree in Social Welfare from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Until her retirement in 1995, she worked as a certified social worker in Rochester, New York.
As a young woman, Marion joined the Experiment in International Living, crossing the Atlantic Ocean by steamship to the Netherlands, and living with a family in Germany. Later, she traveled in Russia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Bulgaria. She also spent a year in Tucson, Arizona.
She passed many a summer at the traditional family home at Henderson Harbor, New York, on Lake Ontario, where she was an avid sailor of small sloops and was highly successful in racing compe- titions. She was active in seasonal sports, including cross-country skiing, hiking, and yoga.
Marion moved to Santa Fe in 1995 and became one of the founding members of The Commons on the Alameda, one of America's first co-housing intentional communities. Her generosity during her nearly three decades of living in this community helped it thrive and grow.
Throughout her life, Marion supported social equality and environmental equity. She was known for her generosity to friends and relatives throughout the country and for her support for social justice organizations. She was an engaged member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, and she also was a frequent volunteer for the Green Party, serving in many roles, including Membership Committee Chair. She was also involved with the Rainbows Program - working with children from broken families.
A few years ago, Marion contracted lichen sclerosis, which severely limited her activities. She died of related afflictions on July 22, 2021.
An outdoor memorial service honoring Marion will take place at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Santa Fe, 107 West Barcelona Road. The service will be on Saturday, August 28, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. Attendees will be asked to sign in on a contact-tracing sheet and to stay masked except when eating or speaking. The service will also be livestreamed. To see the program on You Tube, go to "uusantafe.org" and click on the picture of the entry gate.
In Marion's name, in-kind donations of new children's shoes will be collected to support the Adelante Program, a low-income student support program sponsored by Santa Fe Public Schools.