IN MEMORIAM: Arlene M. Woodin, 81;
Nationally Recognized Creative Baker

COOPERSTOWN – Arlene M. Woodin, a home-economics teacher nationally recognized for her creative baking, passed away Saturday morning, Oct. 10, 2015, at Fox Nursing Home in Oneonta. She was 81.
Born on July 23, 1934, in Marseilles, Ill., Arlene Marie was the only child of Joseph and Lena née Veronda Viviani. Following her graduation from Marseilles High School in 1952 she attended Illinois State Normal University where she received a B.Sc. in Education (Home Economics) in 1956.
She married Ernest Donald Woodin on Dec. 21, 1957, in their hometown of Marseilles, Illinois, and they settled in DePue where she worked as a home economics teacher. Her creative baking skills were recognized when she won a nationwide self-rising flour competition for her recipe for Lemon-Mace Crisps.
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