Marion Helen Hadley, nee Mollison (1912 - 2000)
Marion Hadley was born at Napinka, Manitoba and was raised on a farm at Lauder. She graduated from high school there went to nursing school at St. Boniface in Winnipeg. Marion married James Hadley in December 1938 and came to the Klondike as a newlywed.1)
Marion returned to nursing in 1957 at the Dawson St. Mary’s Hospital for the Sisters of Saint Anne. When the hospital was cut back to a nursing station, Marion went to work at MacDonald Lodge until 1973.2) When she retired from nursing, Marion worked for Jack and Pretoria Butterworth at Butterworth’s Store in Dawson, and later at the museum.3) After the 1979 flood, Marion moved into the MacDonald Lodge apartment.4) Marion had daughters Myrna Butterworth and Margaret Van Dusen and sons Robert and Rainsford.5)