MARION VAN HARKEN, 92, passes on

[Guest guest]

Wow, 92, and from the small bits of info I could find of her online,

3'6 " and supposedly one of the founding member of the LPA too.

Did anyone know her?

RIP n, grady

PS-Tho this is not very recent, because she passed on in early March,

I did not learn of it til today.

Her obit here, scroll down to her name once there:

http://tinyurl.com/ys9y9k

The small bits I did find on her I just copied and pasted for you all

here, as all were subscription based newpapers and they would let me

view any of the articles without paying:

35 'LITTLE PEOPLE' MEET IN JERSEY; Hold Convention IN...

$4.95 - New York Times - Jul 23, 1960... chairman' of The

organization is Miss n Van Harken, of Hawthorne, NJ today,

wearing a card identifying herself, she welcomed arriving members...

Coshocton Tribune, The (Newspaper) - July 25, 1960, Coshocton, Ohio

Subscription - Coshocton Tribune - NewspaperArchive - Jul 25, 1960.

n Van Harken, a 3-foot-6, spokesman for The annual convention,

of The Little People of America, explaining one of the problems lps

have...

The Post Crescent (Newspaper) - August 1, 1976, Appleton, Wisconsin

Subscription - Post Crescent - NewspaperArchive - Aug 1, 1976, n

Van Harken, " I'm small. I'm black. I'm beautiful. We are the in

thing. "

The ville Intelligencer (Newspaper) - July 25, 1960 ...

Subscription - ville Intelligencer - NewspaperArchive - Jul

25, 1960. PATERSON, n Van Harken, a 3-foot-6-inch spokesman for

The annual convention of The Little people of America, ex National

convention...

[Guest Jmcgowancpa]

Marion Van Harken was my grandmother's sister and she was probably the most remarkable person I've ever met! She was the first Sunday school teacher my cousins and I ever had at Preakness Bible Church. I remember visiting her gift shop on Haledon Avenue and one day dreamed of owning my own store (she made it look so easy)!

She never wanted for a sense of humor. One Christmas we had blizzard roll through, and as always, the entire extended family was to visit us in North Haledon. My little sister called her to see if she could still come, and she replied, "Well it sounds like the snow could be over my head,"

When my friends would visit us and first meet her and stare, she would say, "See what happens when you start smoking as a child?". (Who knows how many cases of lung cancer she prevented?)

I have many piece of her "miniature" art on jewelry which I will always treasure. What beauty she could create from those little hands!

Her faith was unceasing, and her spiritual life had to be a key factor in her longevity -- she outlived all ten of her siblings.