Marsha Watson Kirkpatrick

January 15, 1931 - December 26, 2020

Marsha Watson Kirkpatrick, 89 of Myrtle Beach, died Saturday, December 26, 2020 at Brightwater. Born January 15, 1931, in Pasadena, California, she was the daughter of the late Donald R. and Agnes Pomeroy Watson. She was a graduate of Stanford University. Mrs. Kirkpatrick met and married her husband, Robert, when they were assigned to the Military Attaché Office at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1955. She later accompanied him on assignments to Embassies in Paris, Beirut, Nicosia, Warsaw, and Vienna. While her husband was employed by the Department of State in Washington, D.C., Mrs. Kirkpatrick worked in the Personnel Office of Northern Virginia Community College. First retiring to their summer home in the Adirondack Park in upstate New York in 1982, the Kirkpatrick’s moved to the Myrtle Beach area of South Carolina in 1987. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was predeceased by her husband in 2011. She is survived by tow sons, Donald R. of Conway, and Douglas A. and his wife MaryEllen of San Francisco, CA; two sisters, Eleanor Combs of Chelmsford, MA, and Palm Bay, FL and Janet Gould of El Cajon, CA. At her request, there will be no services. Interment of ashes next to her husband in the Veterans Garden of Hillcrest Cemetery will be private. Memorials may be made to Horry County Memorial Library, 1008 5th Avenue, Conway, SC 29526. Sign an online guestbook at www.goldfinchfuneralhome.com Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.