Margie Jaedicke

Margie Jaedicke

Margie Jaedicke, long-time resident of Sequim, WA, passed away peacefully months after having celebrated her 100th birthday. Margie, born in Hanover, KS, on March 21, 1925, was the fifth of six children of Gertrude and August Jaedicke, Jr. She attended the public schools in Hanover and graduated from high school in 1942. She studied at Kansas State University and graduated in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Spanish. Her grandfather, August Jaedicke, Sr., was one of the first settlers in Hanover in 1869 and was involved in the early development of the town.

Margie had a varied career, first as a secretary for businesses in Seattle (WA) and then Pasadena (CA). She next began working as a secretary and then as an administrator in academia, first at Caltech (Pasadena CA), then Kansas State and Harvard Universities. She spent the last 25 years of her working career at Stanford University, retiring in 1990. She moved to Sequim in 1990 to join two of her sisters in the Pacific Northwest, Marie (Sequim) and Ula (Port Angeles). She was an active member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Sequim and played handbells in both church and community bell choirs.

Margie was adventurous and enjoyed travel, taking international trips to Panama, Russia, northern, central and southern Europe, including Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, London and the UK (several times), and closer to home – Copper Canyon (Mexico), Alaska/Western Canada, and Newfoundland/Labrador. She detailed her trips in meticulous and often humorous travelogs and correspondence about her travels.

Margie was the last of her generation of Jaedickes, preceded in death by her half-sister Lucile, sisters Doris (Cooper), Marie (Reynolds), Ula (Sextro) and brother Robert. She is survived by eight nephews and nieces, eighteen great nephews and nieces and numerous great great nephews and nieces.

No memorial service is planned. Inurnment will be in the Hanover City cemetery. Donations honoring Margie may be made to the Kansas State University Foundation

Jaedicke Scholarship Fund 1800 Kimball Avenue, Suite 200 Manhattan, Kansas 66502-3373