Poetic Obituaries: [Marion] Hilberry, a former English instructor

and the wife of poet and former Kalamazoo College professor Conrad Hilberry, died Tuesday at 84.

Marion Hilberry taught English at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., Nazareth College, Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University.

"She was really a remarkable woman," said Kalamazoo poet Marie Bahlke, who has known the Hilberrys since the early 1960s.

from Kalamazoo Gazette: Wife of poet had 'wise eye and wise ear'

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