Marion Lucille Wilks

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• Name: Marion Lucille Willison
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-83009
• Misfortune: 1952; sucide

Notes:

"At Home" For Daughter

Langdon Wilks of "Langdon Hall", Blair, arranged an "at home" at her spacious residence Saturday afternoon in compliment to her debutante daughter, Mss Marion Wilks, whose coming out party will be a smart event at the Royal York hotel on Nov. 23. Large numbers of guests were present from the Twin City and Galt and they were received by the hostess and Miss Wilks in the drawing room where chrysanthemums in yellow and rich sumac tones lent touches of glowing color to the backgrounds. Mrs. Wilks wore a gown of copper velvet and Mas Wilks chose poudre blue velvet. Miss Anne Wilks and Miss Catherine Wilks were also present minging with the guests, the former wearing Royal blue velvet and the latter in brown crepe. Mrs. Wilks and her daughters all wore dainty corsages of tea roses. Assisting in the tea room were Miss Sally Peppler and Miss Carolyn Peppler of Toronto.

Waterloo Chronicle 8 Nov 1938, p. 5

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Canadian Heiress From Galt Found Dead in Gotham Hotel

NEW YORK, (CP)-Mrs. Marlon Willison, 32, found dead in bathroom of her hotel room here Tuesday, was reported in Galt Ont, today to be the daughter Mrs. Langdon Wilks of Galt and member of the family of Hetty Green, famed American recluse heiress. It was said she inherited
$25,000 of the Green fortune. New York police reported that Mrs. Willison apparently had taken an overdose of a sedative.

A note was found saying that she couldn't go through another day" and asking "please watch over my the daughter, Toni." Mrs. Willison was said to be the widow of a Toronto , soldier, Lieut. William Willison, of missing in the 1941 evacuation of a Dunkerque. Her daughter, 12, is living with an aunt in Canada.

Mrs. Willison was reported in Galt to be the niece of Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks, the former Howland Green and daughter of the heiress Mrs. Wilks died in New York Feb. 5, 1951, leaving a small part of her $125,000,000 fortune to Mrs. Willison.

Marion — Second Lieutenant William Archibald "Bill" Willison. William was born 20 May 1917; died 27 May 1940; was buried , Dunkirk Memorial, Dunkirk, Departement du Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet]