Marian Elizabeth Harrison Frazier
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Marian Elizabeth Harrison Frazier died peacefully April 17, 2021. Born on Dec. 15, 1922, she was 98.
Marian‘s early years were spent in the Sacaton area outside of Phoenix, Ariz. At the age of 9, she and her parents moved to Shafter, California. After graduating from Shafter High School in 1939, she attended her beloved Pomona College and received a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1943. Following college and a stint clerking for the local rationing board during World War II, she made her way to Berkeley, where she was employed at UC Berkeley in the nematology department. It was there that mutual friends introduced her to her future husband, Norman Walter Frazier.