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Their daughter Marilyn, born in 1939, studied in Switzerland and married the son of a wealthy Chinese textile manufacturer. Called a jet setter by Algonans, she, along with her three children, spent time in Geneva, Hong Kong and Honolulu. It was gossiped that she shared Sophia Loren's gynecologist...
...most farm families whose children scatter, the Christmas holidays meant a time of reunion. So it was that on Dec. 30, 1987, Agnes Dreesman, a superb cook and flower arranger who frequently contributed culinary and horticultural creations to church and garden-club benefits, readied their house for a celebration. Marilyn, widowed in 1984, had flown in from Honolulu with the three grandchildren. Robert too would be home for dinner...
...This kind of tragedy crashes into our world without warning, a cruel uninvited guest," sermonized Father Hartz at the memorial service for Marilyn and her children. (A Lutheran service was held for John, Agnes and Robert.) "We can neither anticipate it before the fact, nor understand it after the fact...
...first the community was too stunned to react, clamming up protectively as the TV vans rolled into town. "It was as if we could hide this horror from the outside world as well as from ourselves," says Molly MacDonald, then editor of Algona's weekly newspaper, and Marilyn's lifelong friend...
Harvard spokesperson Marilyn L. O'Connell said that initial estimates indicate that the ban may last seven to eight months, leaving the University with a problem in organizing housing for next fall...