After nine months of treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, Marilyn died on October 22, 2013. In the days immediately after Marilyn's death our son-in-law Jason Sprague and Sarah's friend Cheryl Stimpson combed through the family photo archives looking for photographs to be mounted on a poster board for display at the visitations at Muehlig Funeral Home in Ann Arbor and Eagle Funeral Home in Hudson. For the most part, we were limited to using photographs from the period 1976 to 2013. We did not have time to drive out to Marilyn's childhood home and examine her parents' photographs that show Marilyn's first 25 years. Cheryl and Robin Maley (another of Sarah's long-time friends) then decorated the board and mounted the photographs.
During 2016, I began the process of cleaning out the Munsell family home
and found photographs in many locations throughout the house. Since
then I have been organizing and identifying them. For much of that
process, I was lucky to have assistance from Marilyn's mother Ruth and her
incomparable memory of events, dates, and names. It is now possible to
create this virtual photo board to display both the pictures that we
used in 2013 and those we would have used had we had access to them at the time.
