Marjorie Hallam Livermon

Marjorie Hallam Livermon, RD died peacefully August 17, 2012, three days short of her 95th birthday. She was born in Ft. Pierre, SD to Paul and Rose Hallam. She spent her earliest years on a homestead on the Missouri River, and after her father returned to work for the Interior Department, the family lived on several Indian reservations in the northern US, most notably the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The family moved to Pierre, SD in the early thirties where she graduated from high school in 1935. Marjorie received her Degree in Home Economics from Iowa State College in 1939 and worked in food service until she met and married Slim Livermon after a two-week courtship in April, 1943. She worked in a defense plant building B-24's for a time and then started her family. Marjorie and Slim moved to OKC with their three children in 1952 and settled in The Village. She returned to work managing cafeterias in the OKC School system and was head dietician for several years. She then worked at University Hospital and was among the first to receive the Registered Dietician designation by virtue of being grand mothered in for years of work in the field. She was a Past President of the Oklahoma Dietetic Association. Marjorie was smart, funny, intrepid, contrary, encouraging, self-reliant and well read. She and Slim traveled the world and after his death, she traveled on her own. She especially loved Mexico, visiting there many times, including a home stay with a family in Chiapas. She was a student of the Spanish language, and took Spanish I several times. She and Slim were founding members of St. George's Episcopal Church, now St. Augustine's, and has been a member of St. James Episcopal Church for twenty years. She bore three children, raised them well and imparted her interest in books, the arts and conversation. Life presented its problems, but she and Slim managed it all, and in the end she said that she would not change a thing. She had a good, long and fulfilled life. Marjorie was predeceased by her parents, her husband C.H. "Slim" Livermon, her brother Perry, and her son-in-law Jerry Schaefer. She is survived by her children, JoAnn Schaefer, Jim Livermon, Bill Livermon and daughter-in-law Merrilyn, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Merrilyn was Marjorie's constant companion for the last three years and they had a great friendship for twenty years. She also leaves many friends, too many to count. She will be missed.