GREGORY LYNN MARCEY

On Monday, November 20, 2006, GREGORY LYNN MARCEY of Arlington, VA.

Dear son of Eula and Bernard Marcey.

Graveside services will be held Monday, November 27, 2006, 1 p.m. at Columbia Gardens Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at Mt. Olivet Church, December 4 at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the American Cancer Society, 124 Park St., SE, Vienna, VA 22180 or Mt. Olivet United Methodist Church, 1500 N. Glebe Rd., Arlington, VA 22207. Arrangements by ARLINGTON FUNERAL HOME.

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from The Washington Post, 22-Nov-2006

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Greg was adopted and lived in the home of his foster parents until he died (they both preceded him) near the end of Marcey Rd, just above Marcey Run Park. He never went to college, never got married, never had kids. He attended Mt. Olivet Methodist Church (Glebe Rd, N. Arl) with his parents where we met in the Methodist Youth Fellowship (MYF) group. My father was the associate minister there. We both explored the morass of "drugs, sex, and rock and roll" together during the seventies. He held various jobs from time to time, but always had the crutch of going home to live with his parents without needed any means of support.
He was very intelligent and loved to read science fiction and murder mysteries. We both attended a training class in 1971 to learn computer programming on a CDC 6500 mainframe. We remained best friends through the seventies and eighties and into the nineties when we began drifting apart. I had not heard from him in ten years when I found out he had died. It sounds like he died from lung cancer, which makes sense because he smoked from his teen years onward.

If somebody asked me to write an epitaph for his headstone, I'd probably borrow a line from Kurt Vonnegut (one of his favorite authors) "Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt". Greg loved life and I will always miss him.

Greg never expressed strong interest in either his birth parents or the Marcey genealogy, but I always assumed they were from the historical Marcey family of Arlington history.  

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short bio from Omar Fink (omarfink@aol.com), best friend