DOVER - Born in 1920, in Duluth, Minn., Marion F. Eliassen was one of the six children of Roy and Winifred Tobin. She was raised in the small community of Pequaming, Mich., situated in the Upper Peninsula. The town was organized around a remote Ford Motor Company plant that processed timber used in the construction of Ford autos and trucks in Detroit. Employment, housing, schools, churches, libraries, and social activities were provided by Ford. While a teen, Marion learned and taught complex fabric weaving and was part of the staff at Henry Ford's personal vacation lodge nearby. In 1936, Marion met her future husband, Swerre E. Eliassen, who lived and attended school in a nearby town. They were engaged, and during World War II she worked in a defense plant in Detroit while Swerre attended Army Air Corps flight school. Mr. Eliassen was trained as a pilot and flew B-24D Liberator bombers for the Eighth Air Force's 389th Heavy Bomb Group stationed at Hethel, England. Swerre flew thirty perilous, successful missions over enemy targets in Western Europe and Scandinavia. Through his letters to her, Marion knew that several times her fiancé had narrowly escaped death or serious injury. Safely returning home, LT Eliassen and Marion Tobin were married in San Bernardino, Calif., on April 19, 1945. Air Force life eventually took the couple many places over many years. Daughter Patricia was born in Dallas, Texas, daughter Ann in Great Falls, Mont., and son Craig was born in Dover. Swerre was a military air traffic officer and pilot with the 1607th Air Transport Wing. Marion and Swerre together raised their family and re-established their household in Occupied Japan, Casablanca, Morocco, and other places stateside until settling in Camden, and later Dover, in 1956. MAJ Eliassen retired from active duty in 1963 and became a civilian employee of Dover AFB until 1984. Marion developed life-long friendships with several families who shared their nomadic postings, and she was active in the Officers' Spouses' Club at the airbase. She enjoyed travel and visited China, Germany, Austria, Ireland, Norway, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She had a well-informed and razor-sharp interest in current affairs and politics, and enjoyed needlepoint and gardening as hobbies. Marion retained close ties to her relatives in Michigan, especially her only surviving sibling, John R. Tobin, Jr., of Bloomfield Hills. MAJ Eliassen passed away in April, 2010, ending 65 years of a loving and devoted marriage. Marion expressed boundless love, joy, and pride for her children, Patricia (Dana) Wegner, Ann (Edward) Dulin, and Craig (Judith) Eliassen; and her grandchildren, Courtney and Chad Shahan, and Katherine, Christine, and Caroline Eliassen. A Catholic service will be 7 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 21, at Pippin Funeral Home, 119 W. Camden-Wyoming Ave., Wyoming, where friends may gather one hour earlier. Burial will be private for family at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Millsboro. In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions in her memory to St. Martin's Ministries, 14259 Benedictine Lane, Ridgely, MD 21660.