Marilyn H. Russell, age 77, passed peacefully from this life, safe in the arms of her loving Savior, on Aug. 6, 2018. She was born Nov. 27, 1940, in Detroit, Mich., to Leonard and Doris (Morrow) Harrington. She grew up among the Michigan pines with an active group of Covenanter young people in the Hetherton, Mich., RPC.

Marilyn graduated from the Johannesburg, Mich., school and then Geneva College in Pennsylvania. She taught for two years in Fairview, Mich., before moving to New York. There she taught for many years in the Walton Central Schools.

On Aug. 19, 1966, she married Hartley L. Russell, a son of the Walton, N.Y., RPC and the brother of her college roommate. For almost 52 years they lived in their home on the Russell dairy farm where she balanced her duties as wife, mother, homemaker, teacher, bookkeeper, neighbor, and friend.

To call Marilyn an active member of the Walton RPC seems an understatement. She was vigorously involved as a Sabbath school teacher, as a member of the Women’s Missionary Fellowship, and in assisting with the Released Time Religious Education program. She was always ready to help with church activities. The members of the church will miss her initiative, enthusiasm, and effectiveness at fostering social connections.

The funeral service was held Aug. 9, 2018, at the Walton RP Church with numerous friends and family members in attendance. It seemed apt that Marilyn should pass away in the midst of White Lake Covenanter Family Camp in which she had also been active. Several longtime friends from camp were able to attend her funeral. Marilyn was buried in the Walton cemetery, and her body still united to Christ in the sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection.

—submitted by Walton, N.Y., RPC