Lela Marlene Barrick Orr was born January 8,1924 to Troy R. and Edna Pearl Barrick in Butler OK. She grew up in the Arapaho, OK area, attended school and graduated from Arapaho High School in 1942.
She married Howard Arthur Orr on May 30, 1942, and they were married 54 years when he died in 1996.
The family lived in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana. Marlene was a housewife, raising f…