Candice L. Hawkinson

September 26, 1951 - March 30, 2020

Candice L. Hawkinson, 68, of Memphis, TN, formerly of Milwaukee, WI, Houston and Galveston, TX, and New York, NY, passed away peacefully of natural causes on Monday morning, March 30, 2020, at her home. Candice was born on September 26, 1951 in Waukesha, WI, to Rupert and Lois (Shaffer) Hawkinson. She graduated from Brighton College in England, where she worked as an assistant to world-famous photographer David Bailey and part-time as a fashion model. After graduating, she spent a year living in Morocco, and upon relocation to the United States, she began the first of two lengthy stints in Manhattan, where she worked as a legal and administrative assistant. In between, she lived in Houston, TX, and later she returned to live in Milwaukee to be near her parents, where she raised orchids and and travelled to dog shows throughout the Midwest with her prize-wining borzoi (aka, Russian wolfhounds). In 2000, she moved to Galveston, TX, with her husband Dr. Scott P. Marler, whom she married in 2003 on the island of St. Lucia. In Galveston she completed training to become a certified master gardener and made frequent contributions to the county agricultural extension service’s newsletter on a wide variety of topics. She and her husband moved to Memphis in 2007, where she was active in local animal rescue and conservation efforts. With her dogs Emily, Abigail, and Prudence, she was a frequent habitué of Overton Park, Shelby Farms, and Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, and at the time of her passing she was working hard on a novel. Candice was preceded in death by her parents, and she is survived by her husband Scott and by her cousins John Lyon of Waukesha, WI, and Ron Shaffer of Oregon, as well as by her beloved menagerie of cats and dogs. Candice was an avid reader and a bon vivant in the fullest sense of the word. She will be long remembered by a legion of friends and admirers scattered around the nation and world for her remarkable charisma and effortless generosity of spirit, as well as her consummate knowledge of cinema, couture, and gardening, along with an incredibly wide range of other subjects. Per her wishes, remembrances of Candice should be made to regional animal rescue and humane societies in Memphis, Houston, and Milwaukee. A private memorial service in Candice’s memory will be arranged after the current national crisis has subsided.