Margie Anne (Doig) Worthingtons 1938 - 2002

Margie Anne Worthington, age 64, of Fort Collins, died Monday, September 30, 2002.

A memorial service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 5th, at Community of Christ, 220 East Oak Street, Fort Collins. Elders Walt Self and Sue Jannetta will officiate.

Margie was born July 13, 1938, in Bozeman, Montana, to Jim and Elsie Doig. She married Donald Worthington on September 10, 1960, in Independence, Missouri. Margie earned her A.A. at Graceland College in Iowa and her R.N. from the Independence Sanitarium and Hospital, associated with the Missouri School of Nursing. She served as an obstetrics nurse in Missouri; Lansing, Alpena and Mt. Pleasant, Michigan; California; and Fort Collins, Colorado. She was also a prenatal instructor for young, unwed mothers in Michigan and Colorado, and a volunteer Hospice nurse in Michigan.

Margie was an active member of the Community of Christ Church and volunteered as a Sunday school teacher, participated in bazaars and bake sales and served as a youth and family camp nurse for 35 years.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Elizabeth McFarlin of Fort Collins, Colorado; a son, Bruce Worthington of Redmond, Washington; two grandchildren, Katie and Sam McFarlin of Fort Collins, Colorado; three sisters, twin Marilyn Doig of Fort Collins, Colorado, Joan Green of Golden, Colorado, and Beverly Doig of Farmington, New Mexico; a brother, James Doig of Independence, Missouri; and a step-father, Wendell Townsend of Manhattan, Montana. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Doig and Elsie Andes Doig Townsend.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Community of Christ Memorial Fund or Hospice of Larimer County.