- Date Of Birth: May 15, 1912
- Date Of Death: April 10, 2013
- State: Illinois
Marion E. McElligott, nee Newgent, 100, born May 15, 1912, in East St. Louis, Ill., passed away peacefully Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at Fair Oaks Nursing Home in Greenville, Ill.
Mrs. McElligott was a long-time member of Edgemont Bible Church and attended Bethel Baptist Church in Troy while living there.
If you ever asked Marion what her greatest accomplishment was she would quickly answer, “raising four daughters”, who she jokingly called by number. Marion spoiled her husband and family with her wonderful pies and desserts. She loved every aspect of being a homemaker, such as sewing and canning vegetables. She thought being a wife and mother was her calling.
Prayer was Marion’s most important possession. Even in her time of sickness, she would go to sleep each night praying for everyone on her list, often saying that “the devil would try to put her to sleep before finishing”.
Marion was an adamant poem writer, even having some of them published. Her poems often covered the subject of the importance of mothers’ and wives’ daily jobs, and how it was a privilege to raise children. But most of all, her poems were her “testimony” of her love for her Lord and Savior. She would write her poems about Jesus and hang them on the doors of her neighbors with little treats on holidays. Even though her daughters lived hundreds of miles away, they always knew their mother would lift them in prayer every day.
Marion will be missed “desperately” but we claim the promise in God’s word that “to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord”.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 60 years, Leonard J. McElligott, who died March 6, 1990; parents, William R. Newgent Sr., and Adabelle, nee Ballard, Newgent; a sister, Vernabelle, nee Newgent, Miller; son-in-law, Donald BuGay; a granddaughter, Karin Roman; and a grandson, Jeffrey Scott Martin.
Surviving are her four daughters, Diane BuGay of Johnsburg, Ill., Patricia Stewart and Lloyd of Lacey, Wash., Linda Klassen and Joel of Enid, Okla., and Pamela Greenfield and Timothy of Troy, Ill.; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; three brothers, William R. Newgent and Lorraine of Fairview Heights, Ill., Jack A. Newgent and Rita of Bronx, N.Y., and Hadley D. Newgent and Marian of Sun City, Ariz.; and many nieces and nephews.
