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             - Marge DeVito

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MARJORIE DeVITO'S PAGE

Whenever those who knew Marjorie DeVito get together, somone will usually say "Remember the time that Marge....." and begin what will turn into hours of outlandish tales of her antics, pranks, and practical jokes. You can read about Marge's shenanigans or leave your own funny Marge stories for others to read.

A recurring character in these stories is her frequent partner in crime, Joel Kaufman. Joel (or Whammy, as we like to call him) will freely admit that Marge could get him into more mischief than he could stumble into by himself ...and that's really saying something!

"Let's get one thing perfectly clear about Marge," Whammy said, "Marge was not a saintly person..." (As her son Torre and her daughter Laura can tell you, this is an understatement).

Of his mother Torre said "That woman could start more trouble than a handgrenade in a hen house, only difference is if Mom was involved, the hens would have had a good time, and would still be telling the stories about it today!"

"When she teased you," Laura agreed, "it made you feel like you were part of the family. In fact, one of the greatest gifts she ever gave to me was a feeling of a family that included people who were not even related to me."

"But you didn't want to be on her bad side," Torre continued, "It took me 40 years to play a really good practical joke on her, but believe me, she got me back good. You can read it on Marge's shenanigan page. She was a formidable adversary. She was a fighter, which I guess stood her well in her fight against cancer. She struggled not only against her own cancer, but gave support to others with cancer."

Marjorie was a survivor of five different cancers. She spent more than twenty years fighting cancer, begining with colon cancer in 1983 and ending with complications from the treatment of throat cancer in 2004.

In Marge's jourinal she wrote: "My story isn't about how I fought the big 'C' and won, or how cancer taught me some great lesson, it's about how awful this disease is. It's not about 'why me' either, because that would imply that it should be someone else. And if it was someone else, who would I choose? My children? My husband, whom I dearly love? My grand children? Something must be done to stop this terrible disease."

Marge backed up her desire to help fight cancer by participating in the local American Cancer Society Relay For Life.

Her struggle is over, but her fight continues - join the fight.