The Author
Born in 1943, Marcia was a woman of her time. She married young, age 20, and had three children by age 25. After the birth of her first son she left her clerical position with the USDA Forest Service to become a stay at home mom with narrowly defined duties. She returned to the world of work in 1974 when her husband’s depression became incapacitating and then became the sole breadwinner after his suicide in 1975. Marcia became a direct beneficiary of the Civil Rights Act as the USDA Forest Service implemented upward mobility training programs to advance women and minorities. Through training opportunities and work details she gained qualifying experience to compete for professional level positions, first as a Human Resource Specialist, and then a Public Affairs Specialist.
Tragedy and trauma struck again in 1989 when her youngest son died at age 21 of an overdose of alcohol and a prescription drug for depression. A year later she transferred to Escanaba, Michigan where she worked as a Public Affairs Specialist until her early retirement in 1994. It was then she faced her greatest challenge to date, struggling with her father for her mother’s care as her mother descended into Alzheimer’s disease. God Never Hurries is an account of that awful and graced time.