Marjorie Ann Alldritt was born on July 1, 1921 in Winnipeg, Manitoba to William and Agnes Alldritt. She moved with her widowed mother and younger brothers Robert and David to Oak Bay in 1934, living at 2354 Dalhousie, 2617 Estevan, and 2377 Estevan.
She attended Willows School and Oak Bay High, consistently winning prizes for highest academic standing. After graduating from Oak Bay High in 1938, she completed a first year at Victoria College (then housed at Craigdarroch Castle), attended Sprott Shaw College, and worked for the Provincial Government with the High School Correspondence School, Department of Education in the early 1940s.
In 1946, she completed her second year at Victoria College (Lansdowne campus) and then UBC where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts First Class Honours in French and English in 1948. In 1949, she completed a post-graduate program at the University of Washington, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Librarianship, and worked in a two-year internship at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.
Marjorie returned to BC in 1951 and joined the staff at UBC Library (1951-1960), eventually becoming the Head of the Cataloguing Division. She married George (Jeff) Turner in 1958. The couple moved to Edmonton in 1964 and to Oak Bay, at 1762 Beach Drive, in 1983.
Marjorie Alldritt died at Victoria General Hospital on 5 Oct 1992. She is commemorated with a plaque at the Oak Bay Library.