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Marion E. BROQUIST

Nashville, Tenn., Illinois

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January 6, 2013
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Nashville, Tenn., Illinois
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BROQUIST, Marion E. Age 93 of Nashville, TN. January 2, 2013. Born in Rockford, IL, she attended schools there including Rockford College from which she received a BA degree. She taught art at Highland School until her marriage to Harry P. Broquist in 1942, then she did substitute teaching over...

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Marion and Harry Broquist displayed parent-like concern towards me. I met them first in 1964 when I was a graduate student at the Univ. of Illinois. We kept in touch over the years including the days in Nashville, where I visited them often. On these visits, Marion will always ask me about my wife, Cheryl, and then about each one of my children by name with a genuine concern of their wellbeing. Her paintings of landscape appealed me a great deal. I bought one of them (a view from the Shy...

Harry and Marion Broquist had a large impact on my life, and I will never forget either. I recall that I first met Marion in 1969, and I will always remember her as a kind and gracious lady through the years. It was a privileged to know her as a friend. Fred Guengerich