Marilyn Joyce Evans Schultz

SALT LAKE CITY — Marilyn Joyce Evans Schultz, 76, died March 21, after a long illness.

Schultz was born in 1933, in Butler, Penn. She traveled extensively with her family while growing up and graduated from Boulder Colorado High School. She attended Wichita University, and became a model for household and sports product advertisements. She signed a contract with MCA records and was a featured singer at the Statler-Hilton Hotels. She appeared at well-known supper clubs in New York and Chicago, and sang with many Big Band artists on television and network broadcasts for the Armed Forces network from 1952-1957. She moved to Salt Lake City in 1958. She was a past president of the Catholic Woman’s League, a member of the Chamber of Commerce President’s Council, Council of Catholic Women, National Council of Catholic Women, the St. Ambrose Altar Society, and Friends of KUED. She was a member of the Salt Lake Trauma Board, who nationally trained various organizations, schools, and health personnel in the Heimlich maneuver. Her love of music brought her to assist in many fund raising productions for Judge Memorial Catholic High School, co-directing the Judge Memorial Follies for more than 10 years, writing the Women’s Suffrage skit for the CHRISTUS St. Joseph Villa luncheon, as well as fund raisers for Holy Cross Hospital, and the Cathedral Playmakers. She retired in 2005 from the Quality Management/Infection Control Department at Shriners Hospital.

She is survived by her husband from whom she had been separated since 1990; son, Todd; daughter-in-law, Donna; granddaughter, Lauren; a niece and nephew.

A funeral Mass was celebrated at Saint Ambrose Catholic Church.