Marilyn J. (Lusk) Grover was born April 3, 1942, to Harold and Minerva (Flooding) Paulson in Rochester, MN, where she lived in the “little house that Dad built” and where she was raised with her two younger sisters Polly and Dawn. She married her high school sweetheart Richard “Dick” Lusk after they graduated from the new John Marshall High School in 1959 (Dick) and 1960 (Marilyn). She enjoyed working as a telephone operator in Rochester and Minneapolis while Dick attended Mankato State University and Brown Institute for radio broadcasting. Dick worked his way up in the Minnesota radio industry beginning in Albert Lea, then in Mankato for 6 years before moving to Marshall. For 18 years Marilyn and Dick worked side by side at KMHL in Marshall. Dick was the morning personality and manager, while Marilyn was the office manager, responsible for daily logs and bookkeeping. They then started radio station KIKV in Alexandria, where they moved in 1985, and worked until they sold the station and retired.