Marilyn Van De Mark

Longtime Prescott resident Marilyn Van De Mark died on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 in Prescott, Arizona. She was born in Dayton, Ohio on October 27, 1931. At the age of 6 she was sent to live with her aunt, Jeannette, Elivian who adopted her in 1945 after her dad’s death during World War II in an airplane crash. She attended Washington School, Lincoln School, the Academy and Prescott Junior High before moving with her aunt to Flagstaff and then Phoenix. She was a Freshman at Flagstaff High School and graduated from North Phoenix High in May 1949. Marilyn attended the University of Hawaii for one semester and then graduated with an AA in 1951 from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. Her next two years were at (then) ASC in Tempe Arizona where she graduated in May 1953 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Her next year was spent in New York City attending the Tobe Coburn School for Fashion Careers. Upon graduation in 1954 she was hired by Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, Texas where she worked for 3 years as a department head then Assistant Training Director. She returned to ASU to get certified as a teacher so she could apply for an exchange teaching in job in Europe. Instead of achieving that goal, she met and married Charles (Chuck) E. Van De Mark on December 27, 1957. They moved to San Francisco in 1958 where Marilyn worked for The Emporium, got certified to teach in California at San Francisco State, taught in San Francisco one year an the taught in the Jefferson Union High School District for 10 years. In 1970 they returned to Prescott, Arizona. That year Marilyn worked at Smith’s Fabric’s teaching sewing classes in the back room plus doing special local television programs for Teleprompter Cable. When Chuck returned for a job in Hawaii, they moved back to Phoenix, where she worked developing the training program for Goldwater’s and then went back to teaching at Tempe High School. She retired in 1990 and she and Chuck returned to Prescott. Chuck died in August 1994.   Marilyn was a great inspiration to all of her family and friends and will be greatly missed. No services are scheduled at this time.