L. Dennis Marlowe |
| Posted 2009-06-26 by Judy Wight Branson |
| L. Dennis Marlowe Born in Exchange, West Virginia on May 7, 1917. Departed on June 26, 2002 and resided in Cottonwood, Arizona. L. Dennis Marlowe of Cottonwood, Arizona, died on Wednesday, June 26, 2002. He was born at Exchange, Braxton County, West Virginia, on May 7, 1917 to Lloyd Frank and Dinnie Gerwig Marlow. Note: Some of the family spell their name as Marlow and others spell it as Marlowe. He was graduated from Sutton High School, West Virginia in 1934. He received an A.B. degree from Otterbein College, Ohio in 1939 and another A.B. degree from Salem College, West Virginia in 1940. He received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the Ohio State University in 1967 which was a supplement to his law degree he received in December 1949, from that same university. He was a member of the Mountain View United Methodist Church, Cottonwood, Arizona. He moved with his wife and six children from Delaware, Ohio to Prescott, Arizona in December 1957, and to Phoenix in 1958. Marlowe served a little more than two years and eight months in the United States Army Air Force during World War II. He was admitted to the practice of law in Ohio in March 1950 and in Arizona in October, 1958. He taught business law and law for engineers and architects, part time, from 1950 until 1957, in what is now the Business College at Ohio State University. He taught real estate and business law, part time, off and on from 1959 until 1974 in the Business College at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. He moved from Tempe to Cottonwood in 1986. Marlowe's most well known practice of law was in the field of nuisance law. He represented some two hundred clients, including Del Webb, against the Spur Feed Company at Sun City, Arizona, and represented clients against five different feed lots in Tempe, Arizona. He represented Del Webb in Spur v. Webb case before the Arizona Supreme Court decided by the court in 1972. This case gained national attention because of the ruling of the Arizona Supreme Court that held the feed lots had to be enjoined but that Webb should indemnify Spur for the reasonable cost of moving or shutting down the business. This case was chosen for publication in the American Law Reports. The case is also included in Fundamentals of Modern Real Property Law by Edward H. Rabin, used for teach property and nuisance law in law schools. Marlowe served as Solicitor for Village of Powell, Ohio and he also served on the Board of Adjustment for the City of Tempe, Arizona. He taught Sunday School in West Virginia, Ohio and Arizona. He was also active in Partent Teacher associations in both Ohio and Arizona. Marlowe is the author of one book, Sarah's Journey Throu the Probate of Her Husband's Estate. He wrote a poem entitled To My Wife on the occasion of their fifty-fifth wedding anniversary. It was chosen for publication in the book America at the Millennium The Best Poems and Poets of the Twentieth Century. The short poem has four lines: ''There is no sunset, There is no sunrise, As beautiful as, The Smile in your eyes.'' He is survived by his wife, Barbara, whom he married in 1998. He is also survived by one sister, Mary Jean Andrews, Port Hueneme, Calif.; one brother, Frank Jr. Marlow, Sutton, W.V. He is survived by three sons, Charles, Walter and David, a daughter, Linda Lee, all of whom live in Ariz., eight grandchildren, and three gread-grandchildren and by his second wife, Barbara, and her five children, twelve grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by gis first wife, Martha Jane Moye Marlowe, whom he married in 1940, while teaching and coaching high school in North Carolina, and who died in 1997; two children, Dr. Lloyd H. Marlowe and Marilyn Jane DeNully, and by his well-known older brother, Dr. Bill Marlowe, of Prescott, Arizona, and a brother, Craig Marlowe, of West Virginia. Marlowe had two hobbies--reading and writing. He read and studied the Bible, religious commentaries, and history. He enjoyed writing commentaries. His commentaries included, amoung others, Making Decisions; Recognizing Problems; Problems, Some Terrible, of a Sixteen Year Old; The Struggle for Man's Mind As He Enters the Twenty-First Century; Courtship and Marriage After Age Fifty-Five and The Mind and Memory of Man. A visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 2nd at the Westcott Funeral Home, 1013 E. Mingus Avenue Cottonwood, Arizona from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Funeral Services will be private in Cottonwood. Please send no flowers. Interment will be at Green Acres Cemetery in Scottsdale, Arizona Westcott Funeral Home, Cottonwood and Camp Verde, Arizona. |
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