Marilyn Belschner, formerly of Amherst, Nebraska and Taos, New Mexico,
died on December 23, 2018 at the age of 88, in her home of the last five years
in Chadron, Nebraska. In addition to her two daughters, Vicki Papineau
(Rick) and Shawn Cogdill (Rex), four grandchildren, and twelve great grand-
children, Marilyn left a legacy of her artwork.
She was a self-taught artist and attended domestic and international workshops
to develop her style and talent. During her years as an artist she illustrated
books in pen and ink, worked with oils, watercolors, and sculpture. She attended
seventeen art workshops, was represented by eleven art galleries and had
countless exhibits and showings over a fifty-year period. Her passion was creating
portraits, the human face, with pastels. Her work will remain at the Museum of
Nebraska Art (MONA), the Hastings Museum, the archives of the National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; askArt.com; her website
marilynpastelartist.com and hundreds of private collections across the country.
It was Marilyn’s request to have no services. Her cremains will be buried at
Stanley Cemetery, Buffalo County, with her parents, Margaret and Marion Fuller,
of Kearney, Nebraska.
Online condolences can be made at www.chamberlainchapel.com
Chamberlain Chapel is in charge of arrangements.