Maralyn Huskamp

Maralyn was born September 7, 1950 to Lowell and Dorothy Lyon in Eads, Colorado, where she lived most of her life. She was the second of six children. She graduated from Eads High School in 1968.  She started her waitressing career with Roy Sibey when she was fourteen. She married Ed Hope and had three boys, Arron, Kevin, and Ryan. Then she married Neal Huskamp and had one daughter, Ashlei.

Maralyn’s career spanned many years of waiting tables, she enjoyed working with the public and joking with her customers. She retired in 2000 because of her health. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, she was an avid reader, and she loved to crochet. She moved into the nursing home in Eads and her health improved to where she could move to Prairie Pines, where she lived the rest of her life.

Maralyn is preceded in death by her father Lowell Lyon, her sister Karalyn Lyon, and her grandparents. She is survived by her mother Dorothy Lyon, by her children Arron Hope, Kevin (Jing) Hope, Ryan (Christina) Hope, and Ashlei (Cody) Myers, two brothers Jim (Sheri), David (Bev), two sisters Valerie and Vickie, 12 grandchildren, and numerous other relatives and her good friend Teresa Witte.