Marcia F. Geitner
Marcia F. Geitner

Obituary of Marcia Helen F. Geitner

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Marcia Helen Fox Geitner, age 57, of 211 Milton Brown Heirs Road, Boone, NC, died Thursday evening at Glenbridge. Born November 29, 1949, in Watauga County, a daughter of the late Joe V. Fox and Bertha Mae Coffey Fox, Mrs. Geitner was a homemaker and a member of Foscoe Christian Church. Surviving are her daughter, Marcia Roberta Coffey Cox and husband Robert Michael Cox of Boone, NC; three grandchildren, Jeffery Shane Dickens of Key West, Florida; Paul Daniel Dickens and Tiffany Dickens both of Boone, NC; two sisters, Betty Fox Anderson and husband JC Anderson of Abingdon, VA; Maude Ruth Fox Taylor and husband Creed Taylor of Boone, NC. Other survivors include five nephews, Terry and wife Judy Taylor; Mark Taylor; David and wife Mary Taylor all of Boone; Jeff and wife Kip Anderson of Elizabethton, TN; Larry and wife Marilyn Shipes of Fresno, CA; one niece Jodi Taylor Perry and husband John of Thomasville, NC and many other distant relatives. She was preceded in death by her husband, David R. Geitner of Morganton; her parents, Joe V. Fox and Bertha Mae Coffey Fox; three sisters: Nannie Bell Fox, Mary Francis Fox, and Margaret Fox Pell; two brothers, Sgt. JD Fox and John Lee Fox; and by three nephews, Ned Joe Taylor, Joey Anderson and Ricky Shipes all of Boone. Funeral services for Mrs. Marcia Helen Fox Geitner will be conducted Monday evening at 7:30 at Austin & Barnes Funeral Home Chapel officiating will be JC Anderson. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 7:30 PM prior to the service. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the National Ataxia Foundation, 2600 Fernbrook Lane, Suite 119, Minneapolis, MN 55447.