Marlene Joyce Arndt

1935 - 2002  (67 years)

• Name	Marlene Joyce Arndt
  Residence	1935	48 Dekay St., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Born	30 Jan 1935	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Marlene Joyce Umbach
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-105033
  Died	6 Dec 2002	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Buried	Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  Person ID	I105033	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	George Albert Arndt,   b. 13 Nov 1894, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 13 Jan 1993, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 98 years)
  Mother	Lydia Rae Willis,   b. 25 Aug 1898, Gorrie, Howick Twp., Huron Co., Ontario ,   d. 23 Dec 1993, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 95 years)
  Family ID	F37805	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lorne Umbach,   b. 8 May 1924, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 12 Jun 2013, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 89 years)
  Married	18 Jul 1953	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [2]
  Children	1. Colleen Gail Umbach,   b. 31 Jul 1954, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 8 Apr 2013, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 58 years)   2. Dale Umbach
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F44310	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Spent most of her married life, working with her husband as Office Manager of Jemco Wiring Components, in Waterloo. Was a very good mother and wife to her family. Intensly loyal and fiercely protective. An excellent cook and Mother. Always thoughtful of the feelings of others, especially the children. A great grandmother and loved and respected by all. Though greatly loved by her husband and children. Always maintained that she paid for the marriage liscence because her husband did not pay her back when she initially paid for the licence because he was a little short, at the time it was paid for. She was right. Marlene was born and lived at 48 Dekay St. Kitchener. She met Lorne when he moved across the street to his sisters home. Their relationship did not start immediately, but her desire to meet him grew out of her relationship with the children of Lorne's sister Reta, where he was living. The children and "Uncle" Lorne used to sit on their front porch and sing songs while he played his guitar, and Marlene got in the habit of sitting with them. Marlene was old mentally for her age and for whatever reasons was soon infatuated with Lorne and decided that he was the guys he was going to marry. Lorne was around 27- 28 years old and she was around 16, but that did not deter her. Love was love and she had it. Of course she had no way of knowing that Lorne was the victim of several hurting love affairs, that had made him bitter and slightly distrusting of women, in general. They had also made him a very lonely man, and perhaps that made him a pushover for her, for he fell for her right away and could not resist her. Her opportunity came when he purchased an old army motorcycle and asked her if she wanted a ride. She willingly consented, and jumping on the pillion seat put her arms around him and has never let go of his heart since. From then on she made herself a pest and was always in his way, no matter where he was or what he was doing, and their relationship blossomed quickly. Lorne, of course was having difficulty handling the age difference, as were Marlene's Father and Mother, but Marlene was set in her mind, and nothing would deter her. To make a long story short, marriage was soon proposed, but Lorne would have none of it until she was 18 which I am sure relieved her parents. They were married at the Kitchener Y. M. C. A. by J Melvin Toone, the then President of the Canadian Mission, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, (Mormon). The dinner was held in a restaurant that is now just a dilapidated old house, on old King St. East/South, below Fairway Rd. just about at the bend in the street before it gets to River Rd. Their marriage has been like all others, having it's up's and down's but producing 5 of the nicest kids anyone could want. 17 Mar 1993- The house where the dinner was held is now torn down and replaced by other buildings. Lorne Umbach

  
  

• Sources

  [S3231] Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/207095629/marlene-joyce-umbach. [S3115] Umbach, Lorne - Ancestral File.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 30 Jan 1935 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 18 Jul 1953 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 6 Dec 2002 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Memory Gardens Cemetery, Breslau, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth