Marjorie Jenkins, 95

Marjorie Louise Klingler Jenkins, who was born in Southampton and grew up mainly in Sag Harbor, died on June 30 at the Waterview Hills Nursing Center in Purdys, N.Y. She was 95.

A daughter of a career Navy officer, she traveled a great deal in her young life, most memorably living in Hawaii from the ages of 12 to 15, before it had become a state. It was “a true paradise,” and the experience left her with “memories and stories for a lifetime,” her family wrote.

Mrs. Jenkins was born on Jan. 31, 1921, to Lt. Cmdr. Albert Klingler and the former Sarah Palmer. She attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart of Mary in Sag Harbor, and worked at the Bulova watchcase factory in the village in the late 1930s before marrying.

She met Claude Landers Jenkins through her sister, Olive. The two had been dating, but one day when he showed up at her house, Olive was out and Marjorie joined him instead, said Mrs. Jenkins’s daughter Susan Jenkins Orzechowski. They turned out to be a better match and were married in a small ceremony in Amagansett on April 12, 1940.

The couple moved to Brooklyn not long after, to be closer to the tool and die factory where Mr. Jenkins worked. They had one son before Mr. Jenkins went into the Army, and Mrs. Jenkins returned with him to live with her parents in Sag Harbor while her husband served in World War II. After his return, they moved to Freeport, where they raised their four children. In 1968 they moved to Center Moriches.

Mrs. Jenkins is survived by a son, John C. Jenkins of Tennessee, and two daughters, Pamela L. Jenkins Levy of Florida and Pennsylvania and Ms. Orzechowski, who lives in Ridgefield, Conn. Six grandchildren and two nephews also survive. Another son, James, died in 1967, and her husband died in 1997. Her sister, Olive Baer, also died before her.

A graveside service was held on July 6 at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton, where she was buried.