• Services for Marion (Tom Gentry) Mydland, 88, of Groton will be 10 a.m., Monday, August 12 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Groton.  Pastor Elizabeth Johnson will officiate.  Burial will follow in Groton Union Cemetery.
•  Visitation will be held at Paetznick-Garness Funeral Chapel from 4-8 p.m. on Sunday with a prayer service at 7:00 p.m.  A private family service will be held on Saturday. Marion died August 8, 2013.
•  Marion Adeline Tom was born December 3, 1924 in rural Pierpont to John and Alma (Gunderson) Tom.  Marion was baptized and confirmed at Skudesnes Lu

theran Church.  She attended grade school in rural Pierpont and later moved near Britton, where she completed her schooling.
•  Marion was a child of the Great Depression.  Those lean years taught Marion how to make a meal from little and make the most of what she had.  She never complained.  As a young woman, Marion moved to Seattle, Washington.  During WWII, she worked as a riveter at Boeing Aircraft.  Her family lovingly pictured her as "Rosie the Riveter."  Marion was also employed in Seattle as a telephone operator. 
•  Marion married Raymond Joseph Gentry, Jr. on May 3, 1946. To this union two

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