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Preston and Marion Painter with their family, 1963
Preston and Marion Painter and family, 1963

Marion Josephine Cranston Painter, the daughter of Christopher “Doc” Cranston and Bess (Campbell) Melby, was born on May 13, 1910. She married Preston Painter, and theirs was a large family: nine children.

Click a name to see the stories, letters, and photographs about each of them.

For more about Marion herself, see Marion Painter.

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