Margie Lou (Keplinger) Orinin | The Highland County Press

Margie Lou (Keplinger) Orinin, 99, of Washington Court House, passed away Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 at Court House Manor in Washington C.H with her family at her side.

She was born Dec. 2, 1925 in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of Dr. Roy R. and Anna (Furhop) Keplinger.

Margie graduated from high school in Chicago, Ill. and attended Lawrence University. She was a charter member of Living Lord Lutheran Church in Howland, Ohio, a homemaker, school secretary for Howland School system, and secretary for the Meals on Wheels program.

She is survived by three daughters, Judy Orinin of Shaker Heights, Wendy (John) Royse of Greenfield, Amy (John) Ford of Hudson; six grandchildren, Rob (Colleen) Cunningham, Courtney Danklefsen, Lindsey (Jeff) Siedel, Scott Royse, Rory (Ashley) Ford, and Devin (Maury Koffman) Ford; 12 great-grandchildren; and several special nieces.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul M. Orinin, on March 18, 1997; three stepbrothers, William, George, and Tom Nielsen; special sister-in-law, Bobbie Orinin Harvey; both parents; and stepmother, Alma Nielsen Keplinger.

Cremation will take place and a private memorial service will be at the convenience of the family.

The Murray-Fettro Funeral Home in Greenfield is serving the family.

Condolences may be sent to www.murrayfettro.com.

Add new comment

Your name

Comment

About text formats

Plain text

No HTML tags allowed.
Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
Web page addresses and email addresses turn into links automatically.

Article comments are not posted immediately to the Web site. Each submission must be approved by the Web site editor, who may edit content for appropriateness. There may be a delay of 24-48 hours for any submission while the web site editor reviews and approves it. Note: All information on this form is required. Your telephone number and email address is for our use only, and will not be attached to your comment.

CAPTCHA

This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions. Image CAPTCHA

What code is in the image?

Enter the characters shown in the image.

Margie Lou Keplinger Orinin