Marilyn Horecny

Warrenton

Jan. 21, 1931 — Nov. 24, 2024

Marilyn Ilene Bowers Horecny was born to Herbert George Bowers and Freda Elinor Bowers in Indianapolis, Indiana.

She graduated near the top of her class at Thomas Carr Howe High School, and later studied at the Herron Art Institute.

As a teen, she spent summers pumping gas at her Uncle Emil’s Necanicum Junction service station (now known as Hamlet Quick Stop) in Seaside. There she met, and later married, Edward Horecny.

After their divorce, she moved back to Portland, where she worked at a timber company and in commercial real estate bookkeeping, finishing the last 20 years of her career as an accountant and traveling auditor for Shilo Inns.

After retirement, she moved back to Seaside and built her little yellow dream house by the Necanicum River on U.S. Highway 26.

Marilyn volunteered at Providence Seaside Hospital, was a member of Trails End Art Association and served on the board of the Hamlet Historical Schoolhouse.

She spent her last years being very well cared for at Radiant Care in Warrenton.

Throughout her life, she devoted herself to art and teaching other artists. Her many beautiful paintings adorn the homes of her loved ones.

She is survived by her daughter, Rhonda Sue Horecny Ison Sewell, and son-in-law, Dax Sewell; step-grandchildren, Breeanna Sewell Krettler, Joshua Ison, Shannon Ison and Daren Ison; and by her very special and dear friend in England, Aled Griffiths, Order of the British Empire.

A memorial will be held in Marilyn’s honor at 11 a.m. Jan. 19 at the Hamlet Schoolhouse, 80859 Hamlet Road in Seaside.