Marianne Cooper Spinks

[West Metro Realty]

The call I dreaded came this morning when I was told Marianne had passed away.

 

There are times when your life is blessed by meeting someone that makes a positive difference. Marianne Cooper Spinks was just such a person in my life. She was there during many important times.

 

She first came into my life when I married into the Sparti family. She coordinated my wedding rehearsal dinner, giving me the first indication of what a remarkable woman she was. She turned chaos into order and gave me a role model to emulate.

 

Marianne was one of the first visitors to my home in Canton to see our new baby, Joseph, back in 1984. She came with Joseph’s grandfather and promptly claimed status as my child’s honorary grandmother. She laughed uproariously when he urinated on his grandfather and recently when she came to my home to Joseph’s new baby's shower, she was still laughing about it.

 

I was amazed at her abilities and impressed when she opened a restaurant when others her age were retiring. She was always working on something, never idle.

 

I still have a ragged old sweat suit that she bought for me from twenty years ago. I can’t seem to throw it away because it was given to me with such love. There was no occasion for the gift. She just thought I should have one to wear around the house.

 

When I changed careers, she let me sell the home she had lived in for years so that she could move to one more conducive to catering to her age.

 

She always supported me.

 

Over the years she gave me things, cooked me meals and made me laugh many times, but most of all she loved me. I’m so grateful that I knew her. I loved Marianne. I miss her already.

[Jabez]

I am so sorry for your loss. It's women like this that have paved the way for the rest of us!

[Ronismom]

I am so sorry to hear of your loss...I do greatly appreciate the story of a strong woman! She seemed to be a lady everyone should have known!