1933 – 2016

AUBURN— Marjorie “Marni” Pulkkinen Carter, 83, a resident of Schooner Estates and formerly of Livermore, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, at Hospice House of Androscoggin in Auburn.

She was born Jan. 21, 1933, in Lewiston, the daughter of Arve Pulkkinen and Evelyn (Clough) Pulkkinen. In her childhood years, Marni grew up in Livermore and her family later moved to Hamden and then to Island Falls. Marni was a 1951 graduate of Island Falls High School. She married Harold Gerow Jr. and they made their home and raised their two daughters, Peggy and Carmen in Island Falls. Harold drowned in May 1958, leaving Marni widowed early in their marriage. Following his death, Marni went to Husson College in Bangor, earning her associate degree.

On Aug. 6, 1960, in Bangor, she married her husband of 52 years, Harry Carter. They moved to Moravia, N.Y., where Harry was a teacher and Marni worked in accounting. Marni and Harry lived in New York for a number of years and is also where their daughter, Susan, was born. They moved to Scituate, Mass., in 1968, where they lived for 30 years. Marni worked in the Scituate and Cohasset school system. They went to Spain for a few years for overseas teaching and did much traveling while they were there. After their retirement, they moved to Livermore and they wintered in Florida. Harry later died in 2013. Marni later moved to Schooner Estates in Auburn.

She is survived by her daughters, Peggy Ann Gerow and Carmen Gerow Simmons, both of Albuquerque, N.M., and Susan Carter Dunham of Brunswick; grandchildren, Joshua Weldon, and Thomas, Hayley and Mitchell Dunham; her brothers, Richard Pulkkinen and his wife, Barbara, of Millinocket, Walter Pulkkinen and his wife, Joanne, of New Braunfels, Texas, and Danny Pulkkinen and his wife, Pamela, of Naples; her sisters, Elaine Meiser of Parkton, Md., and Johanna Pulkkinen of Portland; her goddaughter, Ingrid Meiser Carr; and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husbands; and her brothers, John and David Pulkkinen.

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