Dorothy Marlene Thompson Age - 78 - Santa Fe Scovel

Dorothy Marlene Thompson Scovel, 78, a resident of Santa Fe passed away on Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Marlene Scovel was born in Leadville, Colorado in 1934, part of an Austrian immigration to work the mines. They moved to work in the Bisbee Cooper Queen and the gold mines of Grassvalley, California. During the Second World War she was put into a convent at the Sacred Heart Church in Grassvalley, CA while the rest of the family went to San Francisco to work. There her father died of black lung. She married James Lee Scovel when he graduated from the West Point Military Academy in 1954 and became an Army Wife. In 1956 she brought her two children, Clint and Johnny on the troop ship carrying her husband. There, feeding times were military style at: 6, 10, 2 and 6 o’clock. She worked as a legal secretary until she moved to Santa Fe to be near her two sons in 1990, when she worked in Uli’s boutique both in Santa Fe and Los Alamos. She lived for two years in Guanajuato and San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. She enjoyed Mexico and the Mexicans very much. She was preceded in death by her mother, Francis Fink; father, Otis Merle (Slick) Thompson; sister, Georgie Shannonhouse and husband Russel; son, George Benjamin Scovel. Marlene leaves behind her sons: Clint Scovel and his wife Annie of Nambe, NM, and Johnny Scovel of Rowe, NM; grandchildren: Jessica Scovel, Nia Scovel, Mesa Lange-Scovel and Katrina Riboni. She also leaves behind THE two cutest great-grandchildren: Zen and Emmy Paz Dutcher – which come from the marriage of Katrina to Benito Dutcher. She leaves behind her nephew, John Shannonhouse; sister, Millie Clark and husband Jack Clark of Grassvalley, CA and two nieces, Millicent Clark Beattie and Susie Clark. Cremation is being planned. The family invites all friends and relatives to a service on Saturday, June 23, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. at the Scovel’s residence in Nambe. The family of Marlene Scovel have entrusted the care of their loved one to DeVargas Funeral Home & Crematory of the Española Valley.

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