She had two sisters, Carol Sue and Janice Kay, who shared one bike and rode the train to grandma’s house where they ate cookies while grandma sewed them dresses. She attended school in a one room schoolhouse where she was the only one in her class and later Sparta High where she was one of many. Her parents were John Markham and Ruby Ford Markham who died so long ago one needs a paid Ancestry account to keep track. To hear her tell it, you’d think she spent her youth washing mason jars.īut, of course, that’s not the whole story. Marilyn was born in the summer of 1934, in Centralia, Illinois, where the grass always needed cutting, the laundry needed washing, and the garden tending. Marilyn June Hancock went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
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