Marilyn Cammack

Obituary of Marilyn Cammack

No funeral services will be held. Cremation has taken place. Her cremains will be united with those of her late husbands, William Brown Cammack and Julien F. Goux, at Cemetery Chapel, Santa Barbara Cemetery. Marilyn was born April 29, 1925 in Stilwell, OK to Judge and Mrs. Herbert J. Williams. Her grandparents helped found the town of her birth in the early 1900s, in what was then Indian Territory. After graduating high school (a month after attaining age 17), as valedictorian, she began her college education receiving Bachelor's and Master's degrees in OK, and later, a counseling credential in CA. She taught public school music for five years in OK; and elementary, secondary, and adult education for the Santa Barbara School District for 23+years. She was editor of the first newsletter for the Santa Barbara Teachers' Association. In the 1970s, she received a Freedom's Foundation, Valley Forge, award and a commendation from the CA State Senate. Before retiring, in 1980, to marry Santa Barbara attorney, Julien F. Goux, she was published in three professional journals. In 1968, she became a member of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) and served in the organization in various positions in four states, over the years. She served as State President (WA State) for two years for the UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy), and chaired a national committee in the 1908s. She was active in the A.A.V.W. in Santa Barbara, Albany, NY and Seattle. In her early years, she was a member of the Eastern Star. She learned the game of curling in Albany, NY, and curled the next nine years in Seattle. In 1991, she enjoyed a two-week curling tour in Scotland (the home of the game) with eight Canadian teams. During a three-year hiatus between Seattle and San Luis residencies, she returned to OK, where she spent a great deal of time working with the SCV (Sons of the Confederate Veterans) on numerous occasions, in dedicating tombstones for previously unmarked graves of Confederate Veterans. In 1994, she chaired and coordinated the OK UDC State Convention. Within two years of moving to San Luis Obispo, CA, she chartered the James Carr Lee Chapter UDC. She took pride in her ancestors who served the Confederacy, three great-grandfathers: James Carr Lee, James K.P. Timmons and Amos Patterson. Also serving were four great-great uncles, and great-great grandfathers, John Bradley Lee. The latter's grandfather, John Lee, served the Colonial Army in the American Revolution, at age 16! During World War II, she was clerk to Selective Service Board 1, OK. On the 50th anniversary of the war's end, all such employees were located, gifted and honored. After nine years of widowhood, she was surprised and delighted by a phone call from her high school sweetheart. Fifty-four years apart, they met in San Luis Obispo and were married at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on September 1, 1996, in the company of family and friends. She and her beloved Bill were ever far apart, for very long after that date! She was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Carolyn Hall, of OK, and dear husband J.F. Goux of Santa Barbara and Seattle and her Bill. She is survived by her two sons from her first marriage: Marshall Von Bieberstein, Jr. and Herbert Lyn Von Bieberstein, and one grandchild: Christopher M. Von Bieberstein. In 1998, the Cammacks made a preliminary charitable gift to their newly created "Judge Herbert Timmons Williams Trust" within the Scottish Rite Charitable & Educational Foundation, toward assisting OK children with childhood language disorders to learn to read. Remembrances in honor of Marilyn Cammack may be sent to this Masonic organization at: Guthrie Scottish Rite Foundation P.O. Box 70 Guthrie, OK 73044
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