Kathleen "Buscia" Marlin was born on June 30th, 1946 and grew up in what is now

unincorporated Lincolnshire. Diagnosed with late-stage pancreatic cancer late July, 2022 Buscia

passed away peacefully on September 20th, 2022 at her daughter Susan's home with her son

Steven and daughter Susan by her side. During the weeks leading up to her passing she was

surrounded by loved ones.

Her upbringing by her late parents, Thelma and Robert Tagtmeier, was wholesome, loving and

engendered a free-spirited temperament that began to blossom when she graduated from Ela

Vernon High School in 1964. Buscia married young and started her family at the age of 18.

This was only the beginning of her story. Throughout her life she lived by her own rules and

spent countless hours learning about whatever she could get her hands on. From gardening to

psychology, tailoring to metaphysics, geology to folklore she put all of herself into the crafts she

pursued. It was this independence and endless pursuit for knowledge and worldly (or

otherworldly) experiences that kept her on the move. She spent the majority of her life

traveling and gathering these things within herself, then passed what she learned on to the

ones she loved.

For her children and grandchildren, she was an ever flowing source of inspiration. She was our

Gandalf, our Obi-Wan, and our Dumbledore. Always there to share another adventure with us

or wisdom in time of need. An encyclopedic mind of music, movies and crystals, spending time

with Buscia was always wholesome, educating, and wonderful. With a sarcastic remark or two

along the way, of course. Likely her greatest achievement was instilling that same need for

independence in all of us. At the very least we know she took pride in the fact that we, too,

have a tendency to be as cheeky as she.

Buscia is survived by her son Steven (Melora) Spriggs, daughter Susan (Edward) Clarke,

granddaughter Arianne, grandson Ryan, grandson Alexander, grandson Sean, granddaughter

Katharine, great granddaughter Anastasia, great grandson Finnan, brother Scott, sister Liza,