In loving memory of Marilyn Bird Conger October 24, 1931 - September 15, 2025.

Marilyn passed peacefully in the presence of family from natural causes. Marilyn is preceded in leaving this earth by her parents Orval Grant Bird and Rhoberta Jones Bird and siblings Livinia Garfield, Enid Rousseau, and her twin brother Mark Bird. She is survived by her husband and companion of 69 years. She is also survived by her children Dee Conger Jr., Jon Conger, Karen Sinquefield, Catherine Ogren, and Rhoberta Blankmeyer and her special foster daughter Charlene Joe Quilles. She has 17 grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren.

Marilyn is remembered as a loving mother and grandmother and faithful servant of Christ. She will be laid to rest in the Elwood City Cemetery in Tremonton, Utah.

Marilyn grew up in Mendon, Utah and later attended Utah State University earning a degree in Education. Following college, she moved to Portland, Oregon to teach school. She met her husband Dee Conger in Portland and was married in the Logan, Utah temple in June 1957. She continued to teach school in the Granite School District in Salt Lake City while her husband completed studies at the University of Utah.

She moved to Placentia, California with her husband in 1962 and raised a family. She was active in the PTA and active in the Placentia ward for 20+ years. She was a great mother always involved with her children’s activities. She later moved to Agoura Hills, California with her husband and she worked in the Waddel & Reed office doing administrative work.

In retirement, she served a mission for the LDS church in India and Malaysia. She made many good friends in the mission field. Following the mission she moved to Cottonwood Heights, Utah. She also served as a temple worker in several temples including Salt Lake City and Los Angeles.

Her hobbies included organizing summer camps with her grandchildren, scrap booking to document all the visits of her children and grandchildren, doing quilting and working jigsaw puzzles. She also enjoyed gardening, canning fruit, card games every day after lunch with Dee grandma Ruth and anyone else that was in the house. She was also a Colorado Rockies fan and loved rooting for her team. She also loved to take road trips with Dee up to Wyoming to see Dee Jr. and Jon and look at the airplanes.

She enjoyed airplane rides in Alaska to see interesting places.

She will be missed and fondly remembered by all. 

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