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Marilyn Joan Dean, the daughter of Clarence and Charlotte Dean, was born on February 24, 1931, in Schenectady, New York. She graduated from Scotia Glenville High School and was a member of Girl Scout Troop 40.
Marilyn enlisted in the United States Navy in 1952 and held the rank of Seaman. Marilyn was sent to a navy hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when she was attending basic training at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center in Maryland. On December 20, 1952, she passed away from Addison's disease-related complications. Marilyn is buried in Park Cemetery, Scotia, New York.
Sources: The Schenectady Gazette, Find A Grave, Ancestry
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
For the Fallen
Laurence Binyon