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Marian Frances Siddall Dockhorn
10 Aug 1908 – 25 Oct 2000
| Birth | 10 Aug 1908 |
| Death | 25 Oct 2000 |
| Cemetery | Middletown Friends Cemetery Langhorne , Bucks County , Pennsylvania , USA |
| Added by | Little P on 30 Nov 2008 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31767816 |
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Wife of Wayne A Dockhorn
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"Marian Dockhom, 92, on October 25, 2000, ar home in Southampton, Pa. Marian Frances Siddall was born on August 10, 1908, in East Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Oberlin College and earned a Master's in Religious Education from Columbia University. Marian moved to Philadelphia in 1933 and took a job with YWCA, where she began working for racial integration at the local and national levels. She and her husbandto-be, Wayne Dockhorn, participated in 1934 in the first workcamp in the United States, organized by AFSC in Westmoreland, Pa. ln 1935 she and Wayne married in Marburg, Germany, where Wayne was an exchange student. Upon their return to Philadelphia, they worked ar Bedford Center, a Quaker-led settlement house. In 1940 Marian and Wayne joined with 12 other families to found Bryn Gweled Homesteads, an interracial, cooperative community in Southampton. That year they became Friends by joining Middletown Meeting in Langhorne, Pa. In 1947 they were among the founders of Southampton Meeting and remained members there for the rest of their lives. During World War II and the posrwar years, Marian and Wayne opened their home to refugees from Europe and to Japanese Americans from the West Coast who had been placed in internment camps. Marian worked for many years as membership secretary of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. During the 1950s, she and Wayne were leaders in the high school program of Friends General Conference in Cape May, N.J. After Marian's three children were grown, she became a community worker for rhe Frankford Branch YWCA in Philadelphia, where she organized civic groups, a community cupboard, and an interfaith response to hunger, enlisting the support of the rwo Friends meetings in Frankford. Marian founded the Bucks County Peace Fair in 1958, and after she and Wayne retired in 1975, she revived it. It drew up to 5,000 attenders with nationally known speakers and performers. During the 1970s she became a prison visitor for men at the maximum security U.S. penitentiary in Lewisburg, and for women at rhe state prison in Muncy, both upstate Pa. She was recorded as a prison visitation minister by Southampton Meeting. In 1983 her dream of a Bucks County Peace Center became a reality. During the 1980s she was led to become a war tax refuser. In 1987, at age 78, she went on a threeweek trip to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace, where she and a group of much younger companions maintained a friendly, nonviolent presence in the mountains, sometimes near gunfire and fighting. Upon her rerum, she adamantly spoke our against military support for the Contra rebels by the United States. Despite various health problems, Marian remained clear and firm in her desire to stay in her Bryn Gweled home for her final years, and she was able to do so with loving support of her family and caregivers. Her husband died in 1977. Marian is survived by her three children and their families: William Dockhorn and Carol Wengert of Southampton and their daughter, Catherine; Robert and Roma Dockhorn of Philadelphia and their three sons, Carl, Julian, and M ichael; and Elizabeth Hinchman ofF airfield, Iowa, her husband, David Hinchman, and a stepson, Brooke Hinchman." -Friends Journal (March 2001)
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