Marilyn EISIMINGER

Marilyn EISIMINGER

Marilyn was born in Missoula, Montana to Thomas Walter and Genevieve Rose Green Eisiminger on October 3, 1934. She moved with her family to Beacon Hill in Seattle in 1940. Her family was immersed in the Seattle Catholic community. Later she lived on Broadway Court immediately across E. Madison Street from Seattle University.

She completed her primary education at St. James Cathedral School and the Holy Names Academy, a Catholic private all-girls college-preparatory high school. After graduation from Holy Names she became a nun with the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary (SNJM).

Following in the footsteps of her mother, who was a lifelong educator in the Catholic School System, Marilyn also became a lifelong primary school educator. She graduated from Marylhurst University, near Portland, Oregon with a degree in education. She further received a M.Ed. from Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. Her early experiences in childhood education were in the Catholic School System in Spokane, Washington. She later became the Principal at St. Anne School in Seattle.

With a strong desire to see the rest of the world and satisfy her wanderlust, she left the religious order in the late 1980s and joined the Department of Defense School System. In 1989 she moved to Germany where she taught the elementary school children of our military servicemen and women for over 11 years. During her time there she traveled to nearly every country in Europe and several in Africa visiting many of the cathedrals and shrines that she had previously only read about. Her yearly Christmas card letters were essentially travelogues that made everyone feel as if they had traveled with her to these spectacular locations.

Returning to the United States in 2001, she didn't let any grass grow under her feet. She did substitute teaching within the Seattle Catholic School System, did pet sitting for friends so they could travel, and also worked for the Seattle Seahawks as an usher.

She was a resident of Providence Mount St. Vincent's for the past six years and loved her interaction with the children in the Intergenerational Learning Center there at the Mount.

She passed on June 11, 2013 after battling the effects of Alzheimer's disease.

She is survived by her brothers, William F. Eisiminger of Seattle, Washington and Thomas I. Eisiminger, Sr. of Florence, South Carolina as well as nephews, Thomas I. Eisiminger, Jr. of Scottsdale, Arizona, Kenneth Eisiminger of Florence, South Carolina and Robert Eisiminger of Annapolis, Maryland; and niece, Lynne Anne Eisiminger of Dallas, Texas. Additionally, she is survived by a great-nephew, Thomas I. Eisiminger III of West Point, NY and Genevieve Katherine Eisiminger of Portland, Oregon.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in her memory to the Holy Names Academy, 728 21st Ave E., Seattle, WA 98112.

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