Marjorie Lopez

Marjorie Irene Bergin was born May 1, 1931, in Tadmore, Saskatchewan Canada, to Austin and Marion (Bickel) Bergin. Marjorie was raised in the Moosejaw, Saskatchewan, Canada, area. At twelve years of age, she and her mother moved to the Fargo/Moorhead area where she was raised and attended school. She worked as a waitress at the Powers Hotel, Fargo, and at the Little Giant Grill in Moorhead, MN, where she met her husband.
Marjorie was married to Manuel Y. Lopez, August 8, 1949, in Ipswich, SD, and they made their home in Moorhead where Manuel served as a captain in the Moorhead Police Department. After the children were older,
she began her career in nursing at The Fairmont, Moorhead. Marjorie worked as a CNA in nursing homes in Minnesota, Arizona and California. She retired in 1995.

Manuel died February 18, 1978, and Marjorie continued to reside in Moorhead. She spent many of the summer months at her home on Big Floyd Lake near Detroit Lakes, MN, and the winter months in Mission, TX.
Marjorie died Wednesday, February 4, 2004, at seventy-two years of age, in her home surrounded by her family and friends, under the care of Hospice of the Red River Valley.
Marjorie is lovingly survived by her five children, Randall (Roberta) Lopez, Alderson, OK, Robert (Jean) Lopez, Glyndon, MN, Marla (Bill) Lopez Dooley, Salt Lake City, UT, Ryan (Susan) Lopez, Fargo, and Laura (Doug) Lopez Dahl, Clearbrook, MN; eight grandchildren, Brandon, Niesa, Kevin, April, Kelly, Jennifer and Mia Lopez, and Rudi McDaniels; one brother, Wayne (Alice) Bergin, Phoenix, AZ; and her companion of many years, Marvin "Sandy" Sanderson, Fargo.
In addition to her parents and husband, Marjorie was preceded in death by a brother, Roger, on December 7, 1941, aboard the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Memorial service for Marjorie will be Saturday, February 7, 2004, at 3 PM, in Korsmo Funeral Chapel, Moorhead. Friends may call on Saturday, after 2 PM.