Marlene-Longenecker-Obituary

Marlene Blaney Longenecker

Columbus, Ohio

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Longenecker Marlene Blaney Longenecker, a long-time faculty member in the English department at Ohio State University, died at home in Redlands, California, on December 25, 2014, following a vigorous 21 month struggle with acute myeloid leukemia. A trusted advisor and mentor to students and...

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A brilliant and inspiring professor! Her seminar on Virginia Woolf was one of the greatest classes I ever took.

Great friend and mentor to me in the 1960's. Changed my life for the better.

I never had Marlene as a teacher but she was a force in the English Department that I felt viscerally. Her commitment to students and the life of the mind was a model for us all. PhD 2003

A dear friend with many gifts and much love to share. I will miss her as will so many others.

Forever thankful to you for being such a wonderful mentor and friend.

Marlene was the inspired and loving teacher every student dreams of, and the one I tried to emulate in my own career after Ohio State. I love and will miss her all my life.

Marlene was such a valued friend and mentor. It's hard to imagine that she's gone.

Marlene was one of those profs that seemed to get you to think harder, often for years afterwards, on topics the undergrad me initially thought were peripheral topics.

Marlene in August 2014

An amazing life, that touched so many others.