Our loving mother was released to the hands of the Lord, Jesus Christ on April 15, 2016.  Born on October 31, 1923 in Lomita California to Col. Floyd Bryan and Gertrude Boyle,  Marcella was raised in Southern California and Pueblo, Colorado and was the grand daughter of Colorado Senator George W. Wright.  Marcella graduated from Torrance High School, California in 1940 and attended the University of Southern California prior to her marriage to John E. Acord and made their home in Palos Verdes Estates, California, where she worked as a real estated broker.  Divored in 1962.  Marcella and John Acord parented five children:  John Patrick, Kenneth Joe, Susan Marie, Sherron Ann and Floyd James.  Floyd preceded her in death in 2001.  Marcella remarried Major Joseph Ortega, a survivor of the doolittle raid and had a son Sean O'Boyle Ortega.

Our Mother, grandmother and great grandmother was a minister of blessing to all with whom she acted, kind gentle, and constanty supportive of those with fewer opportunities and gifts.  To her children and their children she was always supportive, generous with her time affection and wealth.

Marcella in her long life lived in Calfornia, Colorado, Florida, Texas, London, Luxembourg and Panama where she cultivated numerous friends, always spreading the Good Gospel she so valued and lived.  She has been more than a good mother.  She was the most tenderest, loving and most affectionate of mothers.  Never have we known another human being, the perpetual object of whose life was so dedicated to do good.

Marcella was an active member of St. Lawrence Martyr Catholic Church, Palos Verdes, California and in Texas and abroad a member of the Society of Pope Pius X.  Marcellea is interred in the family vault at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery,  Hollywood, California