Marilyn Elizabeth Van Duzer

Marilyn was born on November 19, 1925 in Goshen, New York to Clinton Wheeler Wisner, Jr. and Evelyn Van Der Beek Wisner. She grew up with her brother, Clinton, in the beautiful, bucolic village of Warwick, New York, where she was a descendant of many generations dating back to colonial and revolutionary America. Her family, and especially her father, loved to travel and Marilyn enjoyed a girlhood in the 1930s traveling to Florida and through the Panama Canal to California, and other farflung adventures. After attending Warwick Valley High School, and working briefly as a nurse's aide at St. Anthony's Hospital in Warwick, Marilyn met her husband of 48 years, James Clinton Van Duzer (April 2, 1922 – June 21, 1996). They were married in Warwick's Dutch Reformed Church on October 23, 1948. The church was designed and built by her grandfather, Clinton Wheeler Wisner, and Marilyn and Jim's daughters were also married there.

Marilyn and Jim had three daughters: Diane Carol White, Marjorie Louise Snyder, and Kathryn Anne Montemarano. All three daughters currently reside in Florida. Marilyn is survived by her brother Clinton of Hampton, Virginia, her granddaughters, Kelly Giesking of Tampa, Florida, and Rebecca Echevarria of Deltona, Florida. She is also survived by her three great grandchildren: Myles Echevarria, and Connor and Cora Giesking.

During her years in Florida, Marilyn was an active member of the Mission Hills Baptist Church in Temple Terrace, Florida and also enjoyed fun luncheon get-togethers with the Red Hat Ladies. She was also a member of the Omar J. Lightfoot Center in Temple Terrace where she enjoyed playing cards and attending seasonal events. She enjoyed cooking, laughing, singing and dancing, and also enjoyed creating occasional works of art in pencil, a talent she inherited from her grandfather who was an architect and artist in Warwick, NY.

Her granddaughters remember her fondly for her love, her sense of fun, her fiesty personality and her love of “ice cream and flirting with cute men.”

We will miss her dearly. Rest in Peace.