Margery Ann Murray Kinnikin

Margery Ann Murray Kinnikin, age 93, of York, PA, passed away on the morning of Monday, June 23, 2025.

Margery was born in Newark, DE on October 5, 1931 at the family home on Barksdale Road. She was the daughter of George Wilson Murray and Gertrude Fader Murray and the youngest of her four siblings. As a child she helped on the family farm and at her grandfather Gottleib Fader’s bakery (now known as Bing’s Bakery). She and her best friend, Margery Dann Fouracre, enjoyed riding their horses around Newark together.

Margery graduated from Newark High School and attended the University of Delaware for two years. She unfortunately had to leave UD before graduating due to the death of her father. However, she valued education and actively learned through her travels around the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. She married John W. Kinnikin at the First Presbyterian Church in Newark (now UD’s Trabant University Center) in 1965. Margery was very involved in a Bible study group for many of the years she lived in York, PA. She also had a deep appreciation for plants and never saw a house plant she didn’t want to nurture. In fact, Margery had a whole room in her home filled with many different plants. One of her greatest prides was her four grandchildren. She loved them all deeply and would travel frequently to Delaware to attend dance recitals, sporting events, and birthday dinners or just to simply come and spend time with them.

In addition to her parents, Margery was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Kinnikin; her siblings and their spouses, Dorothy Burris (Vernon), Mary Murray, George W. Murray Jr. (Pauline), and Janet Ivans (Richard); and her nephews, George Murray III and Eugene Scott. She is survived by her daughter, Ann Parsons (H.D.); her four grandchildren, Brinleigh Parsons, Mackie Parsons (Holly), Parron Parsons, and Keara Parsons; her nephew, David Murray and his family; the family of her nephew George Murray III; her nephew, Richard Ivans; and her live in companion, Charlotte McNamara.

A funeral service will begin at 11 am on Monday, July 7, 2025, at Spicer-Mullikin Funeral Home, 121 West Park Place, Newark, DE. Interment will follow in Head of Christiana Cemetery, 1104 West Church Road, Newark, DE.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Margery’s memory to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or online by clicking here; or to Nemours Children’s Health, Shands House, 1600 Rockland Road, Wilmington, DE 19803 or online by clicking here.