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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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Marian Martin Carroll
AKELEY - Marian Martin Carroll, 68, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, at her home in Akeley after a prolonged illness.
Marian was born in Staples June 15, 1941, to Ellsworth and Irene (Beaver) Martin, the eldest of their six children. She grew up in Staples and was a 1959 graduate of Staples High School. She was active in musicals and drama and played Annie in the Staples all school production of "Annie Get Your Gun." She attended Concordia Summer Theatre in Moorhead, Minn. She continued to sing in different clubs around the Twin Cities.
She enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1963 and received her recruit training at the U.S. Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Md. She received further training at Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes, Ill., and served as a Medical Corps Wave in Bremerton, Wash. She met and married U.S. Naval Missileman-Gunnersmate Billy Ray Thompson and they had a son, Billy Ray Jr., and a daughter, Tamara Ann. Later she attended nursing school and received an LPN degree while working and raising her children.
On July 20, 1985, Marian married Charles Emmett Carroll in El Cajon, Calif. In 1990 they moved to Minnesota and settled on the 11th Crow Wing Lake in Akeley where they lived until her death. She enjoyed the lake, boating, walleye fishing on the pontoon with friends. She enjoyed the community events in Akeley and the surrounding area and was active in the Auxiliary of the Harold Harris VFW Post 8508. She enjoyed being out among friends and relatives and will be sorely missed by all.
Surviving her are her husband, Chuck; her daughter, Tamara Ann (Jeffrey Bruce) Miller; her grandson, Joshua Bruce and wife Jessica Suzanne (Lockmiller) Miller; and great-granddaughters, Kylee Marie and Allison Miller; four sisters, Mugs (Ed) Mancuso, Big Lake, Kitt (Bob) Carroll, Tulsa, Okla., Margo (Steven Sr.) Hoemberg, Staples, Marjean (Howard) Meyer, South Carolina; one brother, Bill Martin, Fargo, N.D.; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her son, Billy Ray Thompson Jr., who died in 1994 at age 29; her parents; and one niece, Lena Glorene Erbe.
A memorial service will be held Sunday, Nov. 1, at 2 p.m., at the VFW, Hwy. 34 East at the junction of Hwy. 64 North, Akeley. A luncheon will follow the service. Internment will be Monday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. at Evergreen Hill Cemetery in Staples.
Arrangements entrusted to Northern Peace Funeral Home of Walker, Minn.
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