Memorial services for Cynthia Myrl Marinelli Allison will be held 3:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Dillon Church of God with interment in Elmwood Cemetery in Fruita, Colorado directed by Cooper Funeral Home.
Miss Allison, 58, died Friday, November 25, 2011 at the McLeod Hospice House in Florence.
Born in Montrose, Colorado, September 19, 1953, she was the daughter of the late Muriel Faye and Louie Marinelli and her biological father Clinton Allison. She was a graduate of Issaquah High School in Issaquah, Washington, and she worked at the Dillon Christian Preschool, and she treasured laughter, anything the color purple, and Neil Diamond.
Survivors include her brothers and sisters, Allen (Mona) Marinelli of Sterling, Alaska, Leanna (Edward) Martin of Dillon, Carrie Taylor of Dillon, Susanna (Tom) Fuller of Maple Valley, Washington, and Tony (Sherry) Marinelli of Redding, California; 13 nieces and nephews; 15 great-nieces and nephews; and friends all over the country.
Miss Allison was preceded in death by her parents; and her sister, Lou Ann Fuller.