Anneta Marlene Corbin, 92, of Lampasas, died peacefully on Dec. 16, 2025.
Services will be held at First Street Church of Christ at 2 p.m. Dec. 22, with visitation one hour prior. Burial will follow at Nix Cemetery.
Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel has charge of arrangements.
Marlene was born at home on March 19, 1933, on Jackson Ranch in Lampasas County to Marlin Lewis and Annis Oleta O’Hair Machen.
She graduated from Lampasas High School in May 1951.
She married Gladden Corbin on Aug. 17, 1951. Shortly after their wedding, she joined the garden club to connect with the townspeople and make friends. Once their children Matt, Clark and Anneta were in school, she began working.
Marlene worked parttime as a secretary/clerk for the Justice of the Peace Office. After 10 years with Lampasas County, she began full-time work for a home health agency to establish the first home healthcare services in Lampasas.
In 1976, she began work with Hill Country Community Action Association to assist in forming a community service center. She became director of the Senior Citizen Center. During her 19 years there, she earned her Texas State License and Baccalaureate of Social Work.
In 1995, she decided to retire. That lasted two years before she began teaching parenting classes and working with the RSVP Program to recruit senior volunteers. She decided in 2000 to retire for good to spend more time with her family and painting. She taught art classes as well.
She was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ and was active at First Street Church of Christ.
She was preceded in death by her husband.
Survivors include her siblings Donald A. Machen (Charlotte) and James M. Machen; her children, Madison (Beth), Clark (Carmen) and Anneta (Ralph); grandchildren Grant Corbin (Tabitha), Kelly Morton (Stephen) and Selena Bailey (Bob); and great-grandchildren Violet and Elyse Corbin, Cason and Asher Morton, and Rhys and Honor Bailey.
