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She received an associate's degree from Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah in 1939. That year, she married into the Marriott family, which had started restaurants and later hotels in the Washington area.

In the early 1940s, she was secretary to the personnel director of the Hot Shoppes restaurant chain.

Her husband, Russell S. Marriott, whom she married in 1939, died in 2001.

Survivors include three sons, Russell S. Marriott Jr. of Salt Lake City, Douglas Marriott of Provo, Utah, and Philip Marriott of Mapleton, Utah; a sister; 16 grandchildren; and 32 great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Jacqueline S. Mahan Montgomery County Teacher

Jacqueline S. Mahan, 67, a substitute teacher in Montgomery County public schools for more than 20 years, died Dec. 13 at her home in Rockville. She had breast cancer.

Mrs. Mahan started her substitute teaching in the early 1980s and mostly worked at elementary schools. She also was a second-grade teacher at the Hebrew Day Institute in Montgomery County in the mid-1990s.

Jacqueline Seglin was born in Chicago and raised in Hammond, Ind. She was a 1963 education graduate of Indiana University, where she also received a master's degree in sociology in 1966.

She settled in the Washington area in the early 1970s and had a second home in Lewes, Del.

She was a docent at the National Museum of Natural History and did volunteer work at the Jewish Social Services Agency and So Others Might Eat. She was a school board member at Temple Emanuel in Kensington.


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