Obituary of MARION E. COULTER

Marion Elizabeth (nee Woodruff) Coulter died Friday morning, August 8, 2008 at Genesis/ Troyl Hills Center in Parsippany following a long illness. She was 85. Born in Newark, she was raised in South Orange and had lived in New York, NY before moving to the Lake Hiawatha section of Parsippany in 1961. Mrs. Coulter's family had settled in the United States in 1639 in the former "Elizabethtown." They had received the 7th parcel of land granted by King George. She attended the Art Student League of New York as a young woman, and later went to night school to earn a degree in humanities from the County College of Morris in 1976. Mrs. Coulter had worked as an advertising manager for Epstein's Departmenet Store in Morristown for 24 years, retiring in 1996. Previously, she had worked as an advertising director with Sachs 5th Avenue and Gimbles both in New York. Following her retirement, she worked in book repair for the Parsippany Library. She and her late husband Thomas were among the founding members of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Parsippany where she served on the vestry and volunteered repairing the prayer books. Mrs. Coulter was also a member of the Parsippany Historical Society, the Parsippany and Lake Hiawatha Libraries Book Groups, and was a volunteer at Fosterfields Farm Museam in Morristown. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas R. Coulter; and a brother, John C. Woodruff. Survivors include a son, James Thomas Coulter and his wife Jennie Ann of Garfield; and two grandchildren James Thomas Jr. and Julia Ellen.