Marilyn Tinkham Dumoulin
Marilyn Tinkham Dumoulin passed away peacefully at her home on October 14 at 11:07 AM, surrounded by family, after a long, courageous battle with pancreatic cancer.
She is survived by her husband, Richard Dumoulin, her children, Stacy (Thomas) Ferry, Richard (Kimberly) Dumoulin, Amy (Eric) Couch, and Jennifer (John) Otruba, her grandchildren TJ (Erin)
Ferry, Becca (Andrew ) Martel, Cynthia Ferry (Jared Brown), Timothy Ferry, Richard Dumoulin III, Mikayla (Jacob) Boone, Olivia (Grant) Campbell, Tessa (Owen) Shepard, Ella Otruba, Nora Otruba, Eva Otruba, Clara Otruba, John Otruba, Anna Otruba, And Leah Otruba, and 13 great grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her granddaughters, Erin Ferry and Heather Ferry and great granddaughter Mackenzie Ferry.
Marilyn was born May 25, 1952, in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts to loving military parents. She attended and graduated from Old Rochester Regional High School. When she was just sixteen years old, she met the love of her life at a bowling alley, and they married three years later. They spent the next 56 years together building a family, founded on love and, as first generation Christians, rooted in the belief of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
Marilyn was a caretaker her entire life. Beyond a stay-at-home mom, Marilyn and Rick were active in the foster system where they showered love on the hurting children of Massachusetts. Marilyn also ran an in home day care and told every child in her home about Jesus.
After moving to Schroon Lake, New York, she helped her husband build a successful motel business and eventually began her own home health care service caring for the elderly so they could remain in their own homes. She competently ran that business until August 2021, when the physical nature of the work took its toll and forced her to lay down that side of her life. She ministered to every elderly person she cared for with kindness and compassion, often becoming close friends. She never missed an opportunity to share Christ and had the blessing of leading several of her clients to the Lord.
First and foremost, Marilyn loved her God and her family. She was a loving and sacrificial mother and took an active role in her adult children and grandchildren’s lives. She served her family tirelessly in any way she could. She was active in all her home churches beginning in North Raynham Congregational and spreading to Mountainside Bible Chapel, New Hope Church, and Pecks Baptist Church. Marilyn loved to sing in the choir and help with the children. She led many Bible studies and completed certification in Christian counseling to better help those in crisis. She also taught algebra at Mountainside Christian Academy and was very active in the support of all the sports programs.
It is impossible to sum up a person’s life in a few paragraphs. The amount of people that Marilyn’s life touched and that she ministered to is immense. Her whole life she loved, served, and cared for others, always putting herself last. Although certainly imperfect, as we all are, Marilyn never stopped striving to be more like her Savior each day, to show more love, to serve more faithfully, and to be a light to those who do not know Jesus. Her passing has left a hole in her family and friends that cannot be filled or substituted. We comfort ourselves with the truth that we will see her again free of pain and smiling by her Savior’s side, and we strive to honor her legacy by following her example of a woman committed to loving God and showing his love to others.
Arrangements are being handled by Updike Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Bedford.
