Posted by Cathy Gowdy on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 07:45:51 :
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, April 9, 2002
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Marie Robert Perkins - schoolteacher, volunteer for arts
by Michael Pena, Chronicle Staff Writer
Marie Robert Perkins, a San Francisco native and longtime volunteer for the arts, died of pneumonia in a Maryland hospital at age 77.
Mrs. Perkins, who died April 1 near her home in Chevy Chase, Md., attended George Washington High School in San Francisco. She later attended and earned a teaching credential from the San Francisco College for Women.
In the 1950s, Mrs. Perkins spent a few years as a tour leader for foreign visitors for the International Diplomacy Council. She married David H. Perkins, a civil engineer, in 1962, and they moved to Berkeley, where they had two children, Mark and Carol.
Mrs. Perkins was a schoolteacher at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Berkeley and at St. John's Episcopal Church in Chevy Chase, where her family moved in 1975 and remained.
Mrs. Perkins also organized an art gallery at St. John's and volunteered as a docent at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. After learning American Sign Language, she became a volunteer and tour leader at Gallaudet University, a liberal arts university for the deaf, also in Washington.
In addition to her husband of 40 years, Mrs. Perkins is survived by her son, Mark, of Sayre, Penn.; sisters, Marilynn Nissen of San Rafael and Marjorie Cagan of Los Altos; and eight grandchildren. Mrs. Perkins was preceded in death by her daughter, Carol Marie Shelton.
Services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, 6701 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, MD 20815. The family suggests donations to St. John's memorial fund, or to St. Barnabas Mission of the Deaf, at the same address.
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