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Marilyn Roman
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Marilyn Roman, a member of
the Honest Weight Food Co-op for more than ten years, died April 12
after a long illness. She was 55. Marilyn was a shopper at the Coop for
years before joining in 1998. Her family was well known here: Her
father, Tom, was a regular shopper years before she was, and here
brothers were (and are) regulars here as well.
The Co-op is now a full-service grocery store where many people do the
bulk of their shopping. But this wasn't always the case. There was a
time when shopping carts were little-used here. Most people back then
shopped with baskets and were here for just a few items. Marilyn was
one of the Coop's first real "shoppers," in the grocery- store sense. A
cancer survivor before she came here, she was committed to eating the
best and healthiest foods she could find, and she started doing the
major grocery shopping for her family--once a week on Saturdays-- at a
time when very few people were doing this.
After years of shopping here, Marilyn was able to free up enough time
in her busy schedule to join the Coop as a weekly worker. She worked on
the Thursday morning stocking crew for over eight years. Marilyn
developed close relationships with many of her long-time fellow
stockers. Having fought off illness using natural means for years,
Marilyn was a font of advice about health issues for many of her
co-workers.
Quiet when we first met her, Marilyn eventually became known as a
chatty worker--so much so that she and other workers sometimes needed
to separate in order to finish tasks! Yet she was a meticulous and
methodical stocker. She liked things to be orderly. Marilyn never just
stocked her area-- she neatened it up as she went. And she loved to
help customers.
A private person, Marilyn stopped working several years ago when she
became ill, and did not really share the facts of her illness very
much. Thus, most of us who worked with Marilyn had not seen her for a
few years, and had only spoken with her on the phone. She will be
remembered for her friendship and for her generous spirit.
Marilyn is survived by her two sons and by her husband Charlie.
- Nate
Horwitz
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