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Merle Marlette

Sept. 20, 1933-Sept. 7, 2018

CURRIE — Services for Merle Milton Marlette, 84, are at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Currie Presbyterian Church in Currie. Burial is at Slayton Memorial Gardens in Slayton. Military honors accorded by the Slayton American Legion Post and the Slayton VFW Post. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the church on Saturday. Totzke funeral Home of Slayton is entrusted with arrangements.

He died Sept. 7, 2018, at the Arlington Care and Rehabilitation Center in Arlington, S.D.

He was born Sept. 20, 1933, on the family farm near Currie, to Guy and Martha (Vahlsing) Marlette. He enlisted in the United States Navy and was stationed in Great Lakes, Ill. He retired from the Navy after 23 years of service.

Survivors include his wife, Connie of Hayti, S.D.; children, Greg of Hanley Falls, Pam Synhorst of Cottonwood and Teresa “Terri” Roepke of Cottonwood; five grandchildren; six great- grandchildren; and sisters, Lucille Bruns of St. Peter and Lois Osborn of Madelia.