Martha was born in 1922. She was the daughter of Roscoe Stokes and Mabel F. (Bartlett) Stokes. She died in 2001.
"MARTHA STOKES ESKELUND, 79, of Round Pond Road, a retired columnist and TV personality, died Friday at home. She was the wife of Mogens Eskelund. Born in Cranston, she was a daughter of the late Roscoe Nelson and Mable (Bunny) Bartlett. Mrs. Eskelund was a weekly columnist for The Providence Journal and former Evening Bulletin, writing "Letters from Marnie," and had also been the coordinator for the Jay Kroll show on WJAR-TV, interviewing celebrities such as Phyllis Diller, Liberace and Lorne Greene. She was a graduate of Stephens College in Missouri and a member of St. Andrew's by-the-Sea Episcopal Church. Mrs. Eskelund was a Cub Scout den mother in the 1950s, a former member of the Barrington Players, and was active with the Altar Guild at St. John's Episcopal Church in Barrington and St. Andrew's by-the-Sea, Little Compton. She was a member of the Sakonnet Golf Club, and a past member of the Sakonnet Garden Club and Little Compton Historical Society. Besides her husband, she leaves three sons, Eric C., Lance S. and Peter M. Eskelund; a sister, Dorothy Mulcahey; and five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren..." -- Providence Journal, Dec. 27, 2001.
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