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Marilyn S. Waldeck died peacefully at her home in Courtyard Senior Living Facility in Oak Ridge, TN.
She was proceeded in death by her father Arvid V. Swaningson, Mother Jessie Louise Woodruff Hooker Swaningson, husband Edward Waldeck, and sister Arline J. Franklin.
She is survived by niece Victoria Bedo of Rosenberg, TX and nephew Douglas Franklin of Rogers, AR.
Marilyn was born on July 22, 1929, in Massapequa Long Island, New York. She graduated from Hofstra College, now University of Long Island with a bachelor’s degree in English. After graduation she moved to Venezuela and married Frank Lazzari, a bush pilot and owner of an aviation company servicing international visitors to the interior of the country. After her divorce, from Lazzari, she returned to New York, married Edward Waldeck in 1960 and spent her working life at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company home office in Manhattan, New York. She and her husband moved to Daytona Beach, Florida after their retirement and eventually landed in East Tennessee to live closer to family. Recently Marilyn volunteered as a docent of the Oak Ridge Museum of Science and Energy. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in Knoxville.
A private ceremony with family will take place at the gravesite sometime in January 2024. The family would like to thank the staff at the Courtyards Senior Living in Oak Ridge Tennessee and well as Amedisys Hospice for her care. In lieu of flowers donations to the ASPCA or the Alzheimer’s Foundation may be made in Marilyn’s memory.
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