Marilyn B. Hutchinson
February 2, 1932 ~ March 8, 2022
Marilyn B. Hutchinson, 90, of Lincoln, passed away on March 8, 2022, in Lincoln. Marilyn has arranged to donate her body to the Anatomical Board of the State of Nebraska. Memorial Services will be held 11:00 A.M. on Monday, April 11, 2022, at Wyuka Funeral Home with Debbie Way officiating. A reception will follow the service in Wyuka’s Garden Room. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Nebraska Public Media by visiting https://donate.nebraskapublicmedia.org/.
Marilyn Ann Burton was born February 2, 1932, in Grand Island, NE, to Wilburn Francis Burton and Maude Frieda Andersen Burton. She attended public schools in Kearney, NE (K-12). During high school she was secretary of the student council, on Girls Club Council, National Forensic League, National Honor Society, state president of Y-Teens and Kearney’s delegate to Cornhusker Girls State. She was appointed to serve as State Chemist and was co- valedictorian of her class in 1950. She was also winner of the State Elks Scholarship and the scholarship to a church-related college in Nebraska.
On September 3, 1950, Marilyn married Duane D. Hutchinson in the Methodist Church in Pauline, NE, where Duane was student pastor. He transferred to Hastings College where she was already registered and together, they attended there in 1950-51. Marilyn won the Freshman Oratorical Contest for which she received an additional scholarship. Duane continued at Hastings College the next year while Marilyn taught grades 5-8 in the Pauline Public School. Duane transferred back to Kearney State Teachers College the next year for his last semester and graduated there in January 1953. Their first son, Stephen Kent, was born November 10, 1952.
They then moved to Dallas, TX, where Duane attended Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and graduated in 1956. During that time Duane served a church near Lewisville, TX, and Marilyn graduated with honors in 1955 from Texas State College for Women.
The Hutchinson’s then moved to Chicago where Duane worked toward a doctorate in theology and counseling at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. During that time, he also served the three churches of the Kankakee Parish in Indiana. Marilyn taught fifth grade in nearby Ray Elementary School and then served as secretary at the University of Chicago Nursery School.
In September 1957 Duane accepted appointment to the Methodist churches in Chester and Hubbell, NE, which he served until June 1961 when the family moved to Lincoln, NE.
Marilyn graduated from the University of Nebraska College of Law in 1970 and started her 33 years of law practice: three years in the private firm of Cline, Williams, Wright, Johnson and Oldfather, one year as clerk to Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Hale McCown, and 29 years as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Nebraska. She was honored by the Women and Law Section of the Nebraska State Bar Association 2009 “in recognition of her outstanding contribution to advancing the rights women law.”
Marilyn was preceded in death by her husband; mother; father; son James, and sisters Darlene Smith and Marlys Nelson.
She is survived by son Stephen Hutchinson and wife Susan; Daughter-in-law Nona Hutchinson Dana and husband Roger Dana; four grandchildren and spouses: Katherine and Richard Gluckselig; Claire and Christoph Kofler; William and Betsy Hutchinson; and Wesley James Hutchinson; six great-grandchildren: Clara and Amelia Gluckselig; Thomas and Liam Kofler; Alice and Jane Hutchinson.
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