- Date Of Birth: May 8, 1923
- Date Of Death: June 14, 2016
- State: Connecticut
Marie Lillian (Jenkins) Carlson, 93, of Manchester, went to her heavenly home on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, from the White Oaks Retirement Community.
She was born May 8, 1923, in Somerville, Mass., to H. Allen and Lillian (Taylor) Jenkins. The second eldest of eight children, she graduated from Howe High School and, at age 19, married high school sweetheart Arthur Carlson in a double wedding with her older sister, Dorothy, and Bernard McDewell while Arthur and “Bud” were home on leave from the U.S. Navy.
Thus began a Navy odyssey for Marie and Arthur that took them to Idaho, Hawaii, California, Rhode Island, California again, and finally, Norfolk, Va., where they retired. They had been married for 51 years when Arthur passed away in August 1994.
