Obituary of Marianne Margareta Hagglund

Marianne Margareta Hägglund, 82, passed away peacefully on November 20, 2024, at her home in Shohola, Pennsylvania, surrounded by her family.

Born on a farm in Ytterjeppo, Finland on November 22nd 1941, Marianne was the daughter of Vilhelm and Gunborg Hägglund and the sister of Leif Hägglund. Her family relocated to Sweden when she was nine years old. After completing her education, Marianne’s adventurous spirit took her to Ireland, where she worked with special needs children, and later to New York City as an au pair.

While working at a restaurant in New York, she met her former husband, Bernardo Teheran, and together they had two children, Bjorn and Andrew. In 1974, the family settled in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where Marianne worked as a horticultural manager at Pathmark for 30 years.

Marianne and Bernardo built a log cabin by hand in Shohola, Pennsylvania in 1980. The Pocono Mountains were one of Marianne’s most cherished places. She moved to Shohola in her retirement, where she embraced her love of nature and the outdoors.

Warm, loving and practical, Marianne had many passions, including gardening, knitting, and Siberian Huskies. She was famous for her hand-knitted “fammo(grandma) socks,” which kept her family warm during the winter, and her thin, crispy Christmas gingerbread cookies, a tradition everyone eagerly awaited each holiday season. She was also a devoted fan of the opera and an advocate for the environment.

Marianne is survived by her children, Bjorn and Andrew (and his wife, Catherine); her grandchildren, Rafael, Markus, Ronan, and Simon; and her dog, Lumi.  She was predeceased by her parents and her brother, Leif.

A memorial will be held in South Orange, NJ on January 18, 2025 to celebrate the life of Marianne. Details to come. 

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations in Marianne’s memory be made to the Sierra Club—an organization she supported—or to an environmental cause of your choice.

As you remember Marianne, picture her gliding across a frozen lake on cross-country skis with a Siberian Husky trotting at her side.