Daisy M. Cherednik

Daisy Marion Cherednik1921 - 2022Marion (Clark) Cherednik, age 101, passed away on September 30, 2022. Born to English immigrants, Bert and Martha Clark, in 1921, she lived all her life in Salmon Creek. Lovely Marion was our treasure, deeply loved and now greatly missed.Marion graduated from Vancouver High School in 1938; then attended Vancouver Business College. She worked for Runyan's Jewelers, the Welfare Department, and as a secretary for SP&S Railroad for 30 years and for Burlington Northern Railroad after the merger in 1970.On February 12, 1942, Marion married Pete Cherednik, who joined the Army Air Corp and became a pilot. Marion followed Pete through training in North Dakota; then Santa Ana, 29 Palms, and Merced, California; then Phoenix, Arizona. While Pete went off to Europe to fly fighter planes in WWII, Marion lived with her sister Mabel in Vancouver.After the war, Pete built them a little green house in Salmon Creek, near Marion's parents and next to a beloved grove of huge fir trees. There they lived until Pete passed away in 1984. Marion continued living in her little house, with her two cats, until the suburbs encroached and the road ran through her place. After some years in a nearby apartment, Marion moved to Bonaventure of Salmon Creek for the remainder of her life. Marion always was good-natured, kind and appreciative; thus the Bonaventure staff loved her too.Marion loved her family most of all. She was close to her four siblings and joined them for supper on Sundays at their parents' home for years. Marion enjoyed many family picnics in the grove and holiday celebrations, especially Christmas. Having no children of her own, Aunt Marion delighted in spoiling her many nieces and nephews, always generous with birthday and Christmas gifts and shopping trips for school clothes. She especially loved eating lunch out on those fun shopping excursions. (In fact, eating "out" was a Marion favorite anytime, especially when the meal included dessert!)Marion loved to read especially magazines and the newspaper. (She usually read the comics first in the paper.) As a young woman she knew all the popular songs and she took the words down in shorthand so she could remember them! In tiny, perfect handwriting, Marion kept the details of her life on calendars for years.Fun travels for Marion included Grand Canyon, Hawaii, Alaska and Reno. (Rumor has it that in Reno she was very lucky at the quarter slot machines.) Vacation at the coast was a favorite all Marion's life and in retirement she and Pete built a cabin in Ocean Park for their visits.Marion's sense of humor was keen to the very end. We all loved laughing with our dear Aunt Marion! Also, all kids loved Marion's candy dish, always full and usually of her favorite, chocolate.Marion was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Pete, sisters Mabel McCoy, Irene Payne, Dorothy Ellertson and brother Kenneth Clark. She is survived by her sister-in-law Marie Clark and many beloved nieces and nephews.Marion's Celebration of Life will be held at Trinity Lutheran Church at 11 am on Saturday, October 29, with a light lunch following. Internment is at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Vancouver, Washington the same day. If you wish to honor Marion with a donation, you are encouraged to give to your local food bank.The family is very grateful to all Marion's amazing caregivers at Bonaventure of Salmon Creek and from (PeaceHealth) Southwest Hospice.

Daisy M. Cherednik

August 23, 1921 - September 30, 2022