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Marie Broadbent <I>Layfield</I> Harrington

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Marie Broadbent Layfield Harrington

Birth
Radnor, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
26 Feb 1965 (aged 45)
Goldsboro, Wayne County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Rosewood, Wayne County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
Plot
Sec A, Lot 157-B, Grave 4
Memorial ID
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Marie Broadbent Layfield, only dau. of James Edmund "Ed" Layfield and Lucy Broadbent, b. Sept. 29, 1919 at the family home at Radnor Twp, Delaware County, PA. She graduated from Radnor High School at Wayne, Penn. in 1937 and graduated from Pembroke College at Brown University at Providence, RI, Class of 1941. She subsequently graduated from the Rhode Island Hospital Nursing School as a Registered Nurse, Class of Sept. 1942 [re: Brown Univ. Archives and Rhode Island Hospital Nurses Alumni Association].

Following the close of W.W.II, on Nov. 22, 1945 Marie m. William Kenison "Ken" Harrington, eldest s. of Clarence Dunn Harrington and Mabel E. Kenison, b. Nov. 11, 1917 at Cranston, RI. He was the older brother of Marie's former nursing school roommate. During the war Ken had served in England with the U.S. Army Air Corps and subsequently was a career serviceman in the U.S. Air Force stationed at various locations in the U.S. and England. Marie and Ken had five children, all daus., four of whom are living, b. at the various AFBs at which Ken was stationed.

Marie died of heart failure Feb. 26, 1965 at Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery west of Goldsboro. At the time of her death, she was a nurse with the Wayne County Dept. of Health.

Data provided by Don Blauvelt.
Marie Broadbent Layfield, only dau. of James Edmund "Ed" Layfield and Lucy Broadbent, b. Sept. 29, 1919 at the family home at Radnor Twp, Delaware County, PA. She graduated from Radnor High School at Wayne, Penn. in 1937 and graduated from Pembroke College at Brown University at Providence, RI, Class of 1941. She subsequently graduated from the Rhode Island Hospital Nursing School as a Registered Nurse, Class of Sept. 1942 [re: Brown Univ. Archives and Rhode Island Hospital Nurses Alumni Association].

Following the close of W.W.II, on Nov. 22, 1945 Marie m. William Kenison "Ken" Harrington, eldest s. of Clarence Dunn Harrington and Mabel E. Kenison, b. Nov. 11, 1917 at Cranston, RI. He was the older brother of Marie's former nursing school roommate. During the war Ken had served in England with the U.S. Army Air Corps and subsequently was a career serviceman in the U.S. Air Force stationed at various locations in the U.S. and England. Marie and Ken had five children, all daus., four of whom are living, b. at the various AFBs at which Ken was stationed.

Marie died of heart failure Feb. 26, 1965 at Goldsboro, Wayne County, NC and is interred at Evergreen Cemetery west of Goldsboro. At the time of her death, she was a nurse with the Wayne County Dept. of Health.

Data provided by Don Blauvelt.


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