MARJORIE M. AKERS
October 22, 1930 ˜ April 8, 2022

Marjorie M. Akers passed away peacefully April 8, 2022. Marjorie was Born Oct. 22, 1930, in Hillsboro, OR, to May and Harry Aldinger. After graduating from Hillsboro High School Marjorie attended Willamette University in Salem, OR. Where she pledged the Chi Omega Sorority, was elected student body secretary, president of the YWCA Chapter, Senior Scholar in the Speech and Drama Department and was the first female to take an ROTC class.

Upon graduation in 1952, Marjorie accepted a 3rd grade teaching position at Powellhurst Elementary School where she met her husband to-be John Akers who was teaching 5th grade at the time. They were married August 24, 1957, in Hillsboro and settled in Vancouver on Hazel Dell property owned by John's family. With a degree in speech Marjorie was teaching English when an opportunity to help start the speech program for Vancouver School District presented itself.

Marjorie put her career on hold with the arrival of their two sons in 1960 and 1962. She continued to do private speech therapy from her home often providing this service for people free of charge. Eventually she started her own business, Vancouver Speech Pathologists working primarily with adults in the medical rehabilitation setting. For a number of years Marjorie was the speech pathology department of Southwest Washington Medical Center traveling between Memorial hospital and what was then St. Joseph. She enjoyed working with other medical professionals in a variety of settings including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and Home Health. She was always on the go and loved home health as this allowed her to go to the client's home delivering services to those who were homebound and unable to travel to outside clinics.

Marjorie retired from Vancouver Speech Pathologists in 1997 as she and John took on the role of Grandma and Grandpa to Grandchildren Nathan, Katie and Cooper.

Marjorie was a person full of energy! She had a commitment to serve her family as a mother, her community as a volunteer, her church in many different leadership positions as well as being a support person to her many friends and acquaintances.

In her role as mother, she was a Den mother in Cub Scouts to both of her sons and was active in Mother's Club for the boys in DeMolay.

Her community volunteer roles included being active in the Campfire girls, the Washington Hospital Association Auxiliary, serving on the Vancouver Planning Commission and an extended term including Chairman of the Vancouver Parks and Recreation Commission and General Federation of Women's Clubs. Marjorie was also a member of Soroptimist International of Vancouver. She served as President in 1997 when the club traveled to Joyo, Japan which is Vancouver's sister city.

Marjorie and her husband John were very active in the Masonic organizations. She was a member of Henry Wentworth Chapter of the Eastern Star, Shalom, the Daughters of the Nile, and a member of the Vancouver Masonic Temple Board.

Marjorie and John were married 49 years at the time of John's death in 2005.

She is survived by her brother, Paul W. Aldinger; two sons, John and Paul K; daughter-in-law, Jody; and three grandchildren, Nathan, Katie and Cooper.

A memorial service will be held Tuesday May 10, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. at Heights United Methodist Church.

In lieu of flowers please consider donating to one of the following:
Share Homestead Shelter for Families & Single Women
Friends of the Carpenter
Parks Foundation of Clark County