Marjorie Lucille Goode Cardwell, 90, passed away peacefully beside an Easter bouquet on Saturday, April 4, 2015 in Big Spring, Texas, almost four months after her husband'spassing there also.Marjorie was born November 11, 1924 in Dallas, Texas to Glenn E. Goode and Gwendolyn Merle McKean. She grew up in the Highland Park of the 1920s and 1930s and often regaled her young children with her adventures with Marilou Rutledge there- canoeing on Turtle Creek and almost being swept into the \Black Hole\ drain during a storm; entering the back door of an adjacent mansion on Halloween where a recluse was said to practice magical ceremonies – and being angrily chased back out; Highland Park High School Girls' Basketball games in neighboring farming towns like Plano and Frisco. After graduating from SMU in 1946, Marjorie met Clarence E. Cardwell, Jr., courted, and married at Highland Park Methodist Church on Dec. 18, 1948, leaving the next month for Midland, Texas where he was assigned by Atlantic Refining Co. They became members of the First Methodist Church Family in 1949. She accompanied Clarence on various occupational assignments to Tulsa, OK, Denver, CO, and returning to Midland in 1976.Marjorie loved living things, especially daisies and snapdragons in a variegated flower garden, and had to have hummingbird feeders at the kitchen window and her 'prisms' to scatter rainbows in the kitchen area. She loved color, in sewing, cooking, gardening, even fireworks. She was a great cook specializing in Southern \comfort\ foods and especially desserts, passing muster even with her mother-in-law in Alabama on that score. Bridge parties in the 'sixties gave way to Alarm Clock club, the Sewing club, PEO, and social work in later years. She involved herself in working with paraplegics while in the Denver area. She nursed her mother, also having Alzheimer's, at HER home, and at that time began her daily \two mile walk with God\ as personal therapy for that great Cross she bore — and was later to bear herself for so long.Most of Marjorie's peer group has already passed, but surviving family members include son William of California; son Robert of Idaho; grandson Hillary and wife Magdalena Aue Cardwell, and great-granddaughter Penelope “Penny” Cardwell, all of Wiesbaden, Germany; one cousin, Oma Jean Mavon of Illinois, and two nieces and two nephews. Marjorie lived with Christian charity, generosity, compassion for others, temperance, and tolerance. She is missed and will be remembered forever.Memorial service to be held at Nalley-Pickle & Welch Chapel, Thursday, April 9 at 10 AM, with Rev. Macky Pitts officiating. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Hospice of Midland or charity of choice. Reliquiescat in pace, Marjorie!Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Midland. Online condolences may be made at www.npwelch.com.,
