Marilyn R. DuPre's Obituary
Marilyn R. DuPre, our beloved Auntie Marilyn, passed away peacefully on June 7th 2015 in Palo Alto, California.She was born on May 5th, 1926 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents Harold B.and Maude Ramsey. She had an older brother, Roger, and an older sister, Dorothy.After graduating from High School, she went to Business College and then went to work for the Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce. Near the end of the Second World War she came out from Minnesota to visit her sister Dorothy and family in Carmel, California and never left.She became a Travel Agent for University Travel in Palo Alto, and was able to enjoy many exciting trips by sea and air. We fondly remember her saying many times during the years, “That’s when air travel was fun!”She married her husband, H. Franklin DuPre, in 1961 and they had many more adventures traveling in their R.V. Clarabelle (and later Clarabelle Jr) after they joined the “Elks On Wheels” in San Mateo.She loved to entertain friends and family in her lovely Belmont hills home, overlooking the San Francisco Bay Area.In her later years, Marilyn LOVED playing the card game, UNO, and the board game played with marbles, called Aggravation. She was such a good and competitive player that she would often try to lose on purpose so that her opponents wouldn’t get discouraged and want to stop playing with her.She wants it to be known that she STILL had all her marbles, right up to the end.She also enjoyed driving over to the Coast, looking at the ocean and having lunch with her family or friends at Nick’s Rockaway Beach Restaurant in Pacifica.Marilyn was a faithful member of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Belmont and enjoyed lunching with her Church Ladies.She leaves behind her step children, Laura and Nick (and their children and grandchildren), beloved sister-in-law, Peggy Ramsey (Chuck), grand nephew, Michael, loving nieces Sharon (Bob) Marilyn (John), Joyce, Roz (Jim ) and Susan (and all of their numerous children and grand children), and lastly her wonderful neighbors Terry and Bob Ball and good friend Mary Lake.She never met a stranger, or missed a party if she could help it.
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