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RARE \"First Lady of Radio\" Hazel Markel Signed 3X5.5 Card: $349.99
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ES-2650 Hazel Kenyon Markel's rich life included singing and dancing in vaudeville at age 7, teaching French at the University of Washington and becoming a distinguished commentator once known as the "First Lady of Radio." Services for Mrs. Markel, who died at home Sunday after a long illness, were held yesterday. She was 92. During her long journalism career she worked as a columnist, correspondent and executive for print and broadcast-news organizations. She spoke nine languages, interviewed celebrities, presidents and kings and started a popular radio show called, "Dateline D.C." She was born in Pendleton, Ore., on Sept. 11, 1899, and attended the University of Washington, University of Oregon, The Sorbonne in Paris, New York University, and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Mrs. Markel served as a lieutenant commander for the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II and was director of the Women's Radio Chaplain Corps. She won several honors for her work with the radio corps and worked with singer Kate Smith. She married Daniel Bond Markel, an assistant of Washington Sen. Warren Magnuson, in 1949 in Washington, D.C. Her career is chronicled in the 1974 edition of edition of Who's Who of American Women. She interviewed the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish and accompanied Grace Kelley on the steamship to her wedding in Monaco. Her scrapbooks were full of photographs of her with famous people. Her many jobs and posts included: station director and manager of KBPS in Portland; education director of KIRO-TV in Seattle; program director of WTOP in Washington, D.C.; news commentator for NBC; columnist for The Washington Daily News' Diplomat Magazine; Washington correspondent for Palm Beach Life Magazine; and White House correspondent for the National Radio News Service. She also held positions in a number of organizations, including being a founding member of U.S. Savings Bond Commission, president of the board for the Women's Medical College, and member of the Animal Welfare Institute. She received dozens of professional and service awards. Mrs. Markel's husband died shortly after the couple moved to Seattle in 1974. Despite battling Alzheimer's disease the past nine years, she remained active with the help of her care-givers until she was homebound four years ago. "When she would perform her vaudeville act for me she would always sing `Never the Less,' " said Andrea Hays, one of three women who cared for her in the final years. "She said, `Audiences always really liked that number.' She was always so vivacious and funny. She'd hear the steel bands at Westlake Mall and start dancing," said Hays. Lauren Melville, who tended Mrs. Markel the past nine years, said the walls of her downtown Seattle apartment were filled with photos of the Kennedys, Bess Truman and others she had interviewed. But Melville said it was Mrs. Markel's grace the past few years that impressed her most. "I feel so fortunate to have spent those years with her and for the way she opened her life to me," said Melville.
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