Marjorie A. Torrance

Marge was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey on August 24, 1922 and passed away on October 3, 2019 at Potomac Place Assisted Living Community in Woodbridge, Virginia. She is survived by her two daughters Kathleen Torrance Miller and her husband John Wyatt and Eileen Patricia Leischner. Also survived by her grandson Kevin Andrew Leischner and his wife Kristina and great grandchildren Brady, Meridan and Toby and her granddaughter Kelly Ann Sarazen (nee Leischner) and her husband Daniel and great grandchildren Truman, Noah and Patrick.

She is predeceased by her husband Eugene Neville Torrance who was killed on active duty in a Naval air tragedy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in February 1960 and by her son Eugene (Buddy) Neville Torrance, Jr. who died in a boating accident in October 1970.

Marge was raised in Trenton, New Jersey and graduated from Cathedral Girls Catholic Girls High School in 1940. She enlisted in the U. S. Naval Reserve in February 1943, graduated in the first class of the U. S. Naval Training School (SK-W), Bryant and Stratton Business College in Boston, Massachusetts and assigned to the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Norman, Oklahoma and honorably discharged in September 1944.  She met and married Eugene (Gene), a Metalsmith AMII in 1944 and lived a peripatetic military life. At the time of his death she was working for the Navy in a civilian job and accepted an Office Manager position at the Navy Exchange in Rota, Spain and moved with her three pre-teen children in May 1960. Prior to returning to the United States in 1963 she embarked on the four week driving adventure through Western Europe with her 15 year old daughter as navigator.

Her accounting training was instrumental in procuring business manager positions in four automotive dealerships in the Virginia and Maryland areas.

She was an avid outdoors woman playing catcher for the co-ed softball team and participating in white water rafting adventures with her auto dealership, Autohaus Tischer Inc.

She was an active member of the Women’s International Bowling Congress (W.I.B.C.) and bowled several times a week for 40 years.

Active in the Maryland Senior Olympics from its first year in 1978 when it was a one day event with 300 attendees until 2003 earning en excess of 100 medals in events to include table tennis, pool, long jump, basketball throw, softball throw, football throw, javelin and discus.

She was a volunteer at the O’Malley Senior Center, Odenton, Maryland as the Trip Coordinator for domestic and foreign monthly trips from 1993 - 2003 and served on the Advisory Council for most of that time. Between the trips arranged for the center and her outside travels she had visited 39 countries.

She was honored by the Anne Arundel County, Maryland County Executive Janet Owens to celebrate “Exemplary Women who serve our community in times of War and Peace”.

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association ,8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 400, McLean, VA 22102 or to Women in Military Service for America memorial,200 North Glebe Rd. Suite 400, Arlington, VA 22203

Heartfelt thanks to the staffs of Potomac Place Assisted Living and Vitas Healthcare in Woodbridge, Virginia.