Marilyn Quig Cloud, 72, a dancer in her youth who spent her adult life volunteering for charity groups in Chicago, Evanston and Kenilworth, died Monday, June 3, of complications related to a stroke in her Carefree, Ariz., home. Named by her mother for the 1920s tap dancing star Marilyn Miller, Mrs. Cloud started ballet and tap lessons at age 3. At 10, she was ballroom dancing on a Saturday morning television show, said her brother, Bob Quig, who still runs the Mundelein apple orchard Mrs. Cloud’s parents started when she was in college. She was a graduate of Amundsen High School in Chicago, and dance had become a hobby by 1951 when she completed a degree in languages at Northwestern University. She married Marion D. “Pat” Cloud the same year and worked briefly as a writer in Chicago before moving to North Carolina while her husband served as an Army officer during the Korean War. They returned to Evanston in the mid-1950s, and she spent the remainder of her life as an officer and chairman of volunteer groups, particularly the Infant Welfare Society, the PTA and the Evanston Historical Society. “She put in full days. The deal she made with my dad was that he would generate the income … and she would contribute to society,” said their daughter, Jaimie Cloud. In the early 1980s she and her husband bought a vacation home in Carefree, Ariz., but never retired. Her husband, who continued to run his own company, died in 2000. Mrs. Cloud kept up her involvement in local organizations until moving to Arizona last year. In addition to her brother and daughter, survivors include another daughter, Darrah; and four grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. July 2 in the Evanston Golf Club, 4401 W. Dempster St., Skokie.
