Marlene Ann Powell, 75, a Hoquiam resident, died at Grays Harbor Community Hospital in Aberdeen on Saturday evening, January 19, 2013. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on March 22, 1937, the daughter of Arthur and Levina C. (Baars) Doree.
She graduated from high school in St. Paul and married Gary Nelson in St. Paul. They later divorced and she came to Olympia and then Hoquiam. She married James Powell in Montesano on June 12, 2005.