Lasting Memories

Marion K. Bellamy
1924-Dec. 1, 2006
Menlo Park, California

Marion K. Bellamy, who worked as a real estate agent with Cornish and Carey in Menlo Park for 15 years, died Dec. 1 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 82.

Ms. Bellamy was born in Middletown, Connecticut, and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. She attended William and Mary College. After college she married John B. Bellamy Jr. and moved to the Bay Area.

During the late 1950s and 1960s, she coordinated fashion shows for charities, restaurants and hotels, including the opening of the San Francisco Hilton and Jack Tar Hotel. She was a guest auctioneer for KQED for six years during the 1960s. She was a member of the Peninsula Volunteers.

Ms. Bellamy is survived by her son, Paul Scott Bellamy of Bartlett, Tennessee; stepson Rob Taylor of Gaithersburg, Maryland; four grandchildren and three step-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Norman Taylor, and sons John B. Bellamy III and Robert K. Bellamy.