Marjorie Elizabeth (Huselton) Clinton

Marjorie Huselton Clinton passed on June 22, 2023, at the remarkable age of 101. She led an extraordinary life. Born January 10, 1922, to the late Henry B. Huselton and Laura (Pearson) Huselton, she was raised in East Orange, New Jersey with two older brothers, the late Elbert Huselton and Joseph Huselton. She was educated through high school in the East Orange Public Schools. She attended Dickinson College for a year and took flying lessons. She next went to Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School in NYC and began work at J Walter Thompson Advertising on Madison Avenue, working on accounts for Hoover Vacuums and others, and scoring a young Frank Sinatra around the city for the Agency.

The War was now underway, and she was able to take on opportunities beyond the expectations of the era, as the executives were all commissioned officers in the war. She also volunteered as a driver transpiring prisoners of war to facilities on Staten Island.  After the war, the returning advertising executives rewarded her hard work with a posing to Paris, France. She spent seven years there until meeting back up with Fred Clinton in 1952, whom she had met through friends. He was working to build air bases in Morocco and visited her in Paris. After a brief courtship they were married. They settled in Marrakesh, Morocco and had a son ten months later. After Fred completed his project they returned to his home in Hartford, Connecticut. She spent nine years raising three children, David, Scot, and Sally, but she was anxious to return to work and took a position in a start-up boating publication called Soundings, which is still active today. After a decade there, she decided to get out of the workforce but lasted only two years before she felt the itch to work again. She became a realtor and rose to become one of the most successful residential realtors in Connecticut for two decades.

Marjorie was an avid skier from her early twenties, skiing eastern Canada, New England, and the French Alps.  She won a gold medal in a slalom race in her late 50s.  She and Fred owned, toured, and raced sailboats, along with their children and friends.  Marg was an incredibly competitive tennis player through her 60s.  After relocating to Wilmington, NC to be near their children, Marge and Fred immersed themselves in the local coastal community. Marjorie had learned gardening from her mother and maintained that passion her whole life; she became a Master Gardener while in Wilmington and was instrumental in reviving Arlie Gardens after Hurricane Floyd.

Marjorie is preceded in death by her husband, Fred, infant daughter, Nancy, her grandson, Tristan Spatz, and both of her brothers. She is survived by children, David (Elizabeth), Scot (Leesza), and Sally (Stuart) Spatz; grandsons Sam, Marc and Will; granddaughter, Libby Wilson; great-grandchildren Britney Wilson Peterson, Sage Wilson, Rebecca Wilson and Tyler Wilson, and her great-great grandchildren, Preston Peterson, and Ivan Peterson.

Donaldson Funeral Home & Crematory is honored to serve the Clinton family.