Marilyn Matthews of Manasquan, New Jersey, peacefully crossed the Rainbow Bridge on June 25, 2024. She was preceded in death by her son Drew and her beloved life companion Janet Booth. She is survived by her son Jeffrey of Denver, Colorado, her daughter Jill Allen of Jackson, New Jersey, four grandchildren, and eight great grandchildren.
Marilyn was born to Sydney and Lillian Maxwell of Manasquan, New Jersey, on August 16, 1935. She was a graduate, as were all of her children, of Manasquan High School. She lived almost her entire life on the Jersey Shore and was a Jersey girl through and through. Marilyn was a doting and devoted, yet firm, mother to her children, instilling in them her core values of honesty, loyalty, and the importance of being true to one’s self.
Her sense of humor was legendary and she could sling off-color jokes with the best of them. She made many friends throughout her life and remained true to them to the end. She weathered divorces, cancer, the death of her youngest son, and the death of her companion Janet Booth, and never gave up or in.
Godspeed Marilyn Matthews. She was one of a kind and a truly great broad.
