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Marilyn Elaine (Storey) Moorman, 61, passed away January 10, 2009 at HillTop Village in Kerrville, Texas from Huntington's Disease. Marilyn was born in Houston, Texas on October 15, 1947 to Harold and Mildred Storey. Marilyn was a straight A student through high school, college and graduate school. She graduated from the University of North Texas in 1971 with a masters degree in Speech Pathology. Marilyn loved working in the public schools, especially with elementary age children.

In 1969 she married John W. Moorman, a clinical psychologist and they moved to Minnesota to begin their careers. Because of the risk that Marilyn may have inherited the Huntington's gene from her mother they adopted a six month old girl from Korea ... Katherine Park Moorman. In 2000 she retired from the North Branch Public Schools after 23 years and moved to Kerrville, Texas. She was a devoted wife and mother who raised a remarkable young woman, Kate, who is a Landscape Architect married to Ian Lamers, also a Landscape Architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Marilyn was a member of the Unitarian-Univeralist Fellowship of Kerrville.

She is survived by her husband of 39 years, John Moorman; her daughter Katherine Park Moorman Lamers, her granddaughter Cela (Say-la) Jane Lamers (2 months old), her brother Vertis O'Neal Storey, wife Carolyn and their children, her step-sister Amy Baron and many cousins.

Marilyn was an avid reader, very politically active in the Minnesota Democratic Party, a long standing member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and an officer of the Minnesota Speech, Hearing and Language Association. She loved hiking and camping, and working with children. But most of all Marilyn lived long enough to meet and delight in her new granddaughter, She lived and died with love, courage and the values to make everyone around her a better person.

Please send any memorials to the Huntington's Disease Society of America, 505 Eighth Ave, Suite 902 New York, NY 10018. For more information about Huntington's Disease go to www.hdsa.org.

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