OBIT: Marian Edna (CLARK) DICKERSON, 1944, native of Somerset County, PA

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MARIAN E. DICKERSON

  Marian Edna (Clark) Dickerson, beloved wife of Dr. Donald Dickerson of 
Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of 
Meyersdale, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
  Surviving are her husband; two children, Donna Marie Dickerson, a student of 
St. Mary of the Pines School, Mississippi, and John Clark Dickerson, at home; 
also these brothers and sisters: Francis, Cuyahoga Falls, O.; Cpl. John Thomas 
Clark and Sgt. James Brady Clark, with the United States armed forces in 
England; Pfc. Donald Leo Clark, dental technician in Larson General Hospital, 
Atlanta, Ga.; Mrs. William Leslie Stilson, Cristobal, Canal Zone, and Mary, Mrs. 
Irvin Purnell, Occoquon, Va.
  Mrs. Dickerson was born in Meyersdale, May 30, 1909, and was graduated from 
Meyersdale High School, after which she took a course in nursing.  After 
graduating as a registered nurse, she received an appointment as a nurse through 
the efforts of the late Rep. Samuel A. Kendall and was assigned to the 
government hospital at Cristobal, where later she was united in marriage with 
Dr. Dickerson of the United States Medical Corps, stationed there.
  Dr. and Mrs. Dickerson have had their home in Cristobal ever since.  No 
particulars as to her death and funeral arrangements had been received by her 
parents at the time of the writing of this obituary, the only news they received 
being a brief cablegram announcing the mere fact of her passing.

Meyersdale Republican, February 10, 1944