Marilyn Faye Hoffman went to be with her Lord on Aug. 22, 2011, after a one-year battle with brain cancer.

Marilyn was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Oct. 24, 1947, to Robert McCullough and Hazel (Bolton) McCullough of Devol, Okla. She graduated from Big Pasture High School in 1965. Marilyn married Curtis Allan Hoffman on April 29, 1967, in Burkburnett, Texas. She graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1969. She moved to Oak Harbor in 1971.

In addition to spending time as a full-time homemaker and Navy wife, Marilyn served as a public elementary school teacher in Texas, Mississippi, and Washington state, retiring in 2011. She was a longtime member of the Oak Harbor Church of Christ and also attended the Church of the Nazarene for a season. In May of 2011, she relocated to Monument, Colo., to live with her daughter and family for the final months of her life.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Curtis; her parents, Robert and Hazel McCullough; and an infant son, Colby Brandt Hoffman.

She is survived by a son, Ryan Bradley Hoffman of Pullman; a daughter, Angela Suzanne Larsen and her husband Hans; four grandchildren, Hans Colby, Bradley Eric, Andrew Samuel and Allyson Joy Larsen of Monument, Colo.; and two brothers, Charlie McCullough and his wife Patty of Burkburnett, Texas, and Hugh Lynn McCullough and his wife Verdalee of Grandfield, Okla.

A memorial will be held at the Grandfield Church of Christ at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, with an interment following immediately at the Grandfield Memorial Cemetery. An additional memorial will be held at the Oak Harbor Church of Christ at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.