Marylyn Moon

On Monday, March 31, 2025, Marylyn Lucille Moon (née Lindsey), loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend, passed away peacefully at the age of 84 in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Marylyn was born to Lloyd Lindsey and Dorothea Lindsey on June 4, 1940, in Delton, Michigan.

Marylyn grew up in Delton on the Lindsey Farm (established in 1836), where she enjoyed everything the country life offered. She walked to school every day to the nearby one-room schoolhouse, worked the farm with her parents and sister Eileen, ice skated on the nearby lakes in the winter, and worked summers at the local apple orchard. A natural beauty, Marylyn was crowned 1958's Kalamazoo County Apple Queen.

After graduating from Delton High School in 1958, Marylyn attended Western Michigan University, where she earned a degree in elementary education. Marylyn taught grade school for several years in Avon Lake, Ohio and Mason, Michigan.

On August 17, 1963, Marylyn married Thomas Charles Moon, PhD, of Plainwell, Michigan. After Tom completed his PhD in 1969, they moved to southwestern Pennsylvania, where Tom taught at the California University of Pennsylvania for nearly 35 years. Tom and Marylyn raised two sons, Matt and Ted, during their time in Pennsylvania.

Marylyn was a proud and loving mother to her two boys. She was an avid baker (her sheet pan chocolate-chip cookies and Texas sheet cake were family favorites) and volunteered as a Cub Scout den mother and Little League team mom. She was also a talented knitter. The Christmas stockings she made for her family are still proudly displayed by her sons every Christmas season.

She was a good friend and volunteer to her church and even joined her husband in the church choir. What she might have lacked in pure singing talent, she made up for in enthusiasm.

Marylyn and Tom moved back to the family's Lindsey Farm in Delton following Tom's retirement in 2002. For the next 20 years, Marylyn enjoyed reconnecting with her roots and regularly visiting with her church friends, sister, sister- and brother-in-law, cousins, nieces, and nephews (and grand nieces and nephews). Following Tom's passing in 2019, Marylyn left the Lindsey Farm to live in the Otsego area and later, just a mile down the road from her son Matt and his family in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. The last few years were happy ones for Marylyn, as she could see her grandchildren Laney and Eli regularly (and her grandson Nathan when he visited from Texas).

Marylyn was a fast friend to everyone who met her, always greeting folks with a sweet smile. Her friends will remember her for her kind disposition, her amusingly quirky personality, and her (often unintentional) humor. Friends and family will also remember her love of God and her love for her children, grandchildren, sister, nieces and nephews, and other family and friends.

Marylyn was preceded in death by her husband, Tom, her father, Lloyd, and her mother, Dorothea. She is survived by sons Matt (Courtney) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Ted of Houston, Texas. Also surviving are her sister Eileen (Bill) Wooer of Kingsley, Michigan, and grandchildren Laney, Eli, and Nathan.

A remembrance service will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at First Presbyterian Church, 303 E Bridge Street, Plainwell.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent to the Rainbow of Hope Farm (for developmentally disabled adults), 1951 County Line Road, Kingsley, Michigan 49649 (231-263-HOPE).