Longtime Detroit TV personality Marilyn Turner dies at 93

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I remember watching Marilyn when I was a kid on WJBK TV 2 Detroit back in the 60's

Marilyn Turner, a former Detroit weathercaster who went on to host two popular local talk shows with her husband, John Kelly, has died. She was 93.

WXYZ -TV (Channel 7), where Turner worked for more than two decades, reported Wednesday evening that Turner's family had confirmed her death. Neither the date nor cause was revealed.

Turner grew up in Ontario and became a weathercaster on Detroit's WJBK-TV (Channel 2) in 1957, according to the Detroit Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Detroit.

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1. Always liked her. Happy that she lived to an old age. RIP

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2. I did too...

I waited on her in the 80's at Sweet Lorraine's Cafe in Southfield.

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3. Thanks for the reminder of

how old I am.

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4. Same here...

I will be 65 this month!, I think this was the lineup for me: John Kelly, Jac LeGoff, Marilyn Turner and I forgot who did sports.