Marian Aves Humes

Humes, Marian Aves (Harbordt)

an artist, explorer, chef, athlete, mother, wife, and teacher who forged deep friendships in communities that stretched from Michigan to Texas, California, and Florida, passed away on Sept. 12 in Tampa, FL, while surrounded by her family. She was 88 years old. Born in 1937 in Chicago, IL, she grew up in Greenville, MI. At Michigan State University, she met her future husband, Dave Humes of Lansing, MI, while completing her degree in Education. Her three sons, Steve (Leigh Schaferman), Tom (Lisa Leger, dec.), and Jim (Jillian Rudman) Humes, were born in Michigan before the family moved to Austin, TX in 1968, and settled in San Antonio, TX the following year. In addition to family, she found joy as a jeweler and practitioner of brush painting. She was an avid tennis player and an expert golfer. She became an accomplished macrobiotic chef and cooking instructor. Her life was defined by a bottomless sense of curiosity that sent her traveling through Korea and Japan, trekking through Central America, and spending a year in Santa Cruz to immerse herself in the rhythms of California. She maintained a meditation practice, a devotion to the Japanese tea ceremony, and was a celebrated brush chi-gong artist. When Dave retired, he and Marian moved to Tampa, FL, where Marian spent the last nine years building new friendships. Over the last years, Marian's adventures were curtailed by the progress of Alzheimer's disease. Still, her love of being with family, her spirit of play, and her ability to dance to whatever music was playing never left her. Marian was preceded in death by Dave, her husband of 64 years, and will be greatly missed by her children and their spouses, her three grandchildren, a large extended family, and by countless friends from every chapter of her life.

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