MARLENE ANN CELLA

Longtime Sammamish resident Marlene Ann Fink Cella died of cancer Saturday, March 2, 1013, in her home in Everett.  She was 77 years old.

Marlene was born June 2, 1935 in Lewistown, Montana.  After graduating from Loyola High School in Missoula, Montana, she moved to the Seattle area.  On May 1, 1964, Marlene was united in marriage to Donald Eugene Cella.  They subsequently moved to the Issaquah area and became the parents of a daughter, Amy Elizabeth.  Amy resides in San Francisco, California with her husband Justin Sceva.  Marlene was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and three siblings (brothers Gerald and Millard, and sister Marjorie Ann).

She is survived by her daughter, four brothers (Hylton of Woodinville, Donald in Wyoming, Duane and his wife Nancy of Newberg, Oregon, and Denis and his wife Janna of Santa Ana, California), and two sisters (Iona MacDougall and her husband Mac of Butte, Montana, and Sister Clarella Lois Mae Fink, SP of Seattle).

Cremation is under the direction of Barton Funeral Service in Kirkland.  Burial of Marlene’s ashes will be within her Husband’s grave at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent.