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Ex-Justice Overton's wife dies, was volunteer
By Times Staff Writer
Published June 22, 2005
Marilyn S. Overton, a docent at the Governor's Mansion in Tallahassee during the administrations of five governors and the wife of retired Florida Supreme Court Justice Ben F. Overton, has died at 77.
Mrs. Overton, whose volunteer work also included two decades in the intensive care waiting room at Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, died Friday (June 17, 2005) at Shands at the University of Florida Hospital in Gainesville.
A Kirksville, Mo., native, she lived in St. Petersburg from 1927 until the early 1970s, when she moved to Tallahassee. She moved to Gainesville in 2004.
Her husband, a former St. Petersburg lawyer and circuit judge in Pinellas and Pasco counties, was named to the high court in 1974, the first justice appointed under the state's merit selection process. He retired in 1999.
Survivors in addition to her husband of 54 years include two sons, Pinellas County Judge William H. Overton, St. Petersburg, and Robert M. Overton, Tallahassee; a daughter, Catherine Overton Mead, Atlanta; and two grandsons.
Anderson-McQueen Funeral & Cremation Centers-NE, St. Petersburg, handled arrangements.
Information from Times files was used in this obituary.
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