MARJORIE FAYE WEATHERBEE WIGSTONE

Arlington, Texas - Marjorie Faye Weatherbee was born on the family farm in the rural Clifton, Texas area of Bosque County to Richard Pinkney and Olga Olson Weatherbee. She attended school at the local one room Boggy School house until the 4th grade, when the family moved to a farm outside Meridian, Texas. Marge graduated from Meridian High School in 1942. 

Her family moved to Fort Worth in 1942, where she worked at Commercial Credit Corporation for nine years, following her father’s death. Marge was a charter member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Fort Worth, where on July 21, 1951, she married the love of her life, Charles Wigstone. 

Shortly after they married, Marge and Chuck began moving with Chuck’s jobs with Cities Service, Sinclair, and ARCO pipeline. She attended college at the University of Houston in Clearlake, Texas, in the 1970’s, and graduated in Kansas, from Independence Community College in May 1977. They moved to Arlington, Texas, in 1984. Chuck retired in 1985, and Marge worked at American Airlines for several years. She was a 40-year member of Shepherd of Life Lutheran Church in Arlington.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Charles, grandson, Christopher Wigstone and siblings, Opal Schultz and her husband, Ralph, Floyd Weatherbee and his wife, Fran, Ruth Level and her husband, Newel and Iva Ness and her husband, Bud. 

In addition to her children, Jay and his wife, Carla, Gary, and Diane, Marge is survived by her grandsons, Richard, David and his wife, Jessica; great-grandchildren, Orion, Jackson, Marshall, Gryfinn, Bennet, Piper and Willow; and numerous beloved nieces and nephews and their families.

Family and friends will gather from 10 to 11 am Saturday, July 20, in the Fellowship Hall at Trinity Lutheran Church, 3621 Tulsa Way, Fort Worth, with a service to begin at 11 am in the church’s sanctuary. Following committal prayers, she will be laid to rest with Chuck in Greenwood Memorial Park. Bearers of her casket will be David Wigstone, Jackson Wigstone, Orion Wigstone, Jim Level, Craig Level, Richard Ness, David Berning and Pastor John Foster.