Gloria Jean Marlin embraced her Lord and Savior in the early morning on March 28, 2024. As she was a true and faithful servant, we can only imagine her homecoming. Gloria was born July 16, 1941, in the small delta town of Gunnison, MS, to Christine and William Campbell. In the summer of 1946, the Campbell family moved to Tupelo where Gloria would attend and play basketball at Tupelo High School. At age 19, she met and married Ralph Marlin in a double wedding with friends Jim and Patsy Brown. Gloria spent her career as a teacher’s assistant in the special education department at Dorsey Attendance Center. She was a member of Fawn Grove Free Will Baptist Church. Gloria was a devoted wife to Ralph and an active and very present mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and mother-in-law to her children. They call her blessed.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at the Fawn Grove Community Cemetery with Bro. Terry Booker and Bro. Steve Nichols officiating. McNeece-Morris Funeral Home of Mantachie is entrusted with the arrangements.
She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Ralph Marlin; her children, Phillip Marlin (Sandra) and Tammy Hamblin (Ronnie); her grandchildren, Molly Barnes (Dustin), Brice Patterson, Alex Marlin (Hannah), Allisa Chatham (Cody), and Kalee Brooke Truelove (Dalton); her great-grandchildren, Chloe Hood, Lynley and Luke Marlin, Audrey Barnes, Triton and Maeligh Chatham, Everlee and Lila Truelove, and Gage Davis; her sisters, Louise Legate and Margaret Stanford; a special family friend, Robert Davis; and a host of nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Lisa Carol Marlin; her parents; one sister, Betty Jo Straily; and two brothers, Sonny and David Campbell.
Pallbearers will be Dalton Truelove, Brice Patterson, Robert Davis, Dustin Barnes, Ronnie Hamblin, and Alex Marlin.
Condolences may be shared with the Marlin family at www.mcneecemorrisfuneralhome.com.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Fawn Grove Community Cemetery, 1333 Fawn Grove Church Road, Mantachie, MS 38855.
