Marvel Eaton

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Born : 8 May 1916 DEATH: 26 Jun 1974 (aged 58) BURIAL Evergreen Cemetery Everett, Snohomish County, Washington, USA MEMORIAL ID 131731109 B40 -lot 206 both she and her mother appear to share a grave site?

When Marvel Rae EATON was born on May 8, 1916, in Everett, Washington, her father, Ray, was 31 and her mother, Lenora, was 30. She was married five times and had one son and two daughters. She died on June 26, 1974, in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 58.--- Newspaper clipping: The Everett Daily Herald 27 December 1932"Though his is the President- elect of a great country, Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT found time to acknowledge the sketch of him made by a young artist, many many miles away from his executive mansion at Albany, New York. Miss Marvel Eaton, 16, who lives with her mother, Mrs Lenore(lenora) at 3324 Lombard Avenue, sketched the smiling face of Governor Roosevelt from a Newspaper and sent the likeness to New York.The appreciative reply from Mr Roosevelt bore a signature that was not a facsimile: "Many thanks for the fine sketch which you so kindly sent me, congratulations and good wishes." Mindful of the season the nation's next president wished Miss Eaton a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" in his closing letter. - the letter is in the safe hands of her eldest daughter Arleen Croft Thomson.

Marriage Certificate copy 27041 to John Robert Croft, on April 17th 1934 witnessed by Lenora Ross McClure and Margaret(te) EllisMarvel

Played a Dobro guitar which was purchased for her on the birth of her daughter Arleen by her husband John Croft (Arleen has it now ) Arleen remembers her mother playing Hawaiian steel and contemporary music on it. she remembers her favorites were Love Letters in the sand and Willie Nelson's Nightlife.. as well as pieces like Aloha Oi and Hawaiian Wedding song (as a side note, Arleen recently (in 2015) met a woman whose mother Wrote the Hawaiian Wedding song).

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