OBITUARY: Marlene Janet Hunley McCutchen Tozer

Marlene Tozer

Marlene Janet Hunley McCutchen Tozer passed away May 20, 2022 in Rivermountain Village, Newport, WA. She was surrounded by family and loved ones. She was born January 10, 1934 to Milt and Beatrice Hunley in Compton, CA.

Marlene grew up with three siblings, Milt, Judy and Gary. She attended Lynwood California High School in her teens and continued to reside in CA. She held many jobs over the years including a waitress at Woolworth’s, telephone operator and data processor.

She then began her favorite job as a homemaker and mother of six children: Suzzy Self, Terrie May, Fred McCutchen, Judy McCutchen, Tammy McCutchen and Dwayne McCutchen.
Marlene had a love for crafting and sewing, and would even sew matching outfits for all six of her kids.

She had a tough side too, playing roller derby in her younger days and always had the mouth of a sailor. But nothing brought her more joy than babies and kids. She even volunteered at Bowler Elementary as the school room’s grandma.

She spent her later years in Henderson and Overton, NV before moving in with her daughter Suzzy and her husband to Newport, WA in 2010.

Marlene loved to laugh! She also loved Cherry Dr. Pepper and her livesaver candies but only the red and orange ones, movies of all genres especially “Anything Goes” that starred her younger siblings, the music of Frank Sinatra and the TV show Two and a Half Men.

In 2014 she suffered a stroke and spent her remaining years at Newport Long Term Care. Her daughter and family visited multiple times a week for years. Quarantine kept them physically apart but the family would visit through the window and set up holidays in the Courtyard. Fortunately the restriction was lifted a couple of weeks before her departure.

Marlene is survived by her six children and her multiple grandchildren, great grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and her numerous nieces and nephews.

She wanted to never be forgotten by her family and loved ones and she never will. She will always be the beautiful, bold pink-haired lady.