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I 'm pleased to welcome you to my blog "Obituaries", which I started last year, going back about five years to extract obituaries from The News-Reporter pertaining to the deaths of people related to me, friends of mine, or just people I've known or should have known.

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Marian Garrett Confer

Marian Garrett Confer, 66, a native of Wilkes County, died Saturday, May 26, 2007, in Granada, Spain, following a brief illness. Details of a memorial service will be announced later.

Mrs. Confer was the daughter of the late Enoch Garrett and Lillian Garrett Skinner. She graduated from Washington-Wilkes High School in 1958 and attended Auburn University and the University of Georgia where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Following a career in media research in New York with the McCann-Erickson Company and with publications, including Family Circle and The New Yorker, she retired as vicepresident of Magazine Publishers of America and moved to Connecticut and later to Spain.

Survivors include a brother and sister-in-law, Bobby and Ellamarie Garrett of Sandersville; and two nieces, Susan Garrett Cato of Sandersville, and Elizabeth Garrett of Los Angeles, California.
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