Former island resident Marian Nicholson Luedicke, age 83, died Nov. 20 in Olympic Care and Rehabilitation Center in Sequim.

She was born Oct. 9, 1919 in Milwaukee, Wis. to Ruth Morgan Nicholson and Joseph W. Nicholson. She graduated from Hartford Avenue School before entering Milwaukee University in 1934, where she was captain of the White Team and was voted Best All-Around Girl.

She attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., majoring in piano in the School of Music. She then studied at Prospect Hall Secretarial School in Milwaukee.

Durring World War II she was a stenographer at the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover. She resigned when she married Lynn C. Surles and moved to Texas to join him at the Air Force Base in Austin. The couple had three children, two of whom survive: Mark Surles of Bonny Doon, Calif., and Laurie Bendon of LaQuinta, Calif.

She divorced and was employed as executive secretary at Astronautics Corp. of America and subsequently at First Wisconsin Trust Co.

In August of 1976 she married Alex H. Luedicke, Jr. and moved to Bainbridge. Upon his retirement from Boeing Co. the couple moved to Sequim.

She was a member of Beta chapter of Alpha Phi Fraternity, an active parishioner of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church of Sequim, and a member of the Daughters of the King and of the Sequim Senior Center.

Graveside services will be held noon Nov. 25 at the Kane Cemetery on Bainbridge.

In recognition of her love for animals, remembrances may be made to any humane organization. Arrangements are under the direction of Sequim Valley Chapel.