Marjorie “Marge” (Westwood) Chance passed away on March 15th, 2018. Marjorie and Harold Chance were married for 63 years before his passing in 2010. She was by his side when he founded Chance Manufacturing Company in 1961. Harold and Marge raised five children while building what would become America’s largest amusement ride manufacturing company. When Harold retired from the company in 1985 his son Richard Chance took over the family business. Marge was instrumental in the early days of the family’s ventures into the amusement industry. Harold had purchased a traveling carnival in 1954 where Marge operated the cotton candy wagon.
As the Chance Manufacturing Company began to celebrate more success Harold and Marge fell in love with a vacation destination that ultimately became their second home in Treasure Cay, Bahamas. Even after Harold’s passing Marge continued to spend about 6 months of the year living in their Bahamas villa.
Marge is preceded in death by her father John Westwood and mother Marian Westwood, her brothers John and Jerry Westwood and sister Marian Flattery, her husband Richard “Harold” Chance, daughters Katherine Marie Chance and Nancy Stadnyck, and grandsons T.J. Hernandez and Michael Chance. She is lovingly remembered by her brother Joe (Sharon) Westwood, her son Richard (Carol) Chance, daughters Susan (Bill) Chew, Judy (Bruce) Nielson, and son-in-law Doug Stadnyck, twelve grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren as well as nieces, nephews and other relatives as well as many, many friends.