Marie Alice Nesteroff

Marie Alice Nesteroff

Marie was born on September 5, 1918, in Butte, Montana. Her parents were John and Eugenia Dubie. Her only sibling was a sister, Dorothea, who was nine years older. Marie and her family moved to Rochester, New York, where Marie graduated from Monroe High School in 1937. Marie worked as a medical secretary at the Genesee Hospital School of Nursing and later with a Rochester orthopedic surgeon.

Marie married Robert Nesteroff, of Rochester, N.Y., on September 20, 1941. After Robert joined the Army in 1944 and during his 26-year career in the military, Marie accompanied him to postings in the U.S. and Japan.

Early on Marie set a pattern for lifelong volunteer activities with involvement as a Girl Scout leader and with St. Joseph’s Home, an orphanage in Tokyo, Japan run by the Sisters of Sacred Heart, who were from her family’s native Quebec. When her two children were in high school, Marie returned to work as a medical secretary in the Radiology Department at Western Clinic in Tacoma. She continued her volunteer work with the American Business Women’s Association, Kla-How-Ya chapter; the Lakewood Library; and later for the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent, WA, and the Kent Senior Center.

Marie was a consummate crafter – among her vast output were many knitted baby blankets and sweaters, she regularly sold her hand-made items at craft and holiday bazaars, and she organized, made and distributed holiday gift bags for the residents at Harrison House in Kent. Marie always exemplified her strong Catholic faith.

Her family requests any memorial gifts be made in Marie’s name to the Evergreen ?Health Foundation – Hospice, 12040 NE 128th St, MS 5, Kirkland, WA, 98034-3013. Arrangements by Mountain View Funeral Home. Remembrances may be shared at

www.mountainviewtacoma.com