2006
Marie Nelson Duncan, 86, an executive secretary for the Essell P. Thomas printing and publishing company in Washington from
1962 to 1972, died June 2 at Iliff nursing home in Dunn Loring, where she had lived for the past four years. She had Parkinson's
disease and dementia.
Mrs. Duncan was a native Washingtonian and a graduate of Roosevelt High School. She attended Strayer College.
In the 1970s, she moved with her husband from Silver Spring to a farm in Trego, Md., near Hagerstown, where she canned,
froze and pickled home-grown fruits and vegetables.
Her hobbies included quilting and playing the piano.
Her husband, Marvin J. "Jack" Duncan, whom she married in 1938, died in 1991. A son, Allen Duncan, died in 1999 after two
kidney transplants.
Survivors include four children, Jean Dolan of McLean, Eileen Burke of Harrisonburg, Va., Warren Duncan of Orlando and Steve
Duncan of Columbus, Ohio; two sisters; a brother; 13 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.