"Marilyn was a fierce tap dancer."
-- Mercedes Ellington – granddaughter of Duke and daughter of Mercer
Marilyn Taylor Gleason – widow of The Great One and sister of “Jackie Gleason Show” choreographer June Taylor – died Tuesday night at 93 in Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
“She was a woman ahead of her time. She was comfortable in her own life,” said Craig Horwich, Marilyn’s son from her first marriage, who spent his teen years living with her and Gleason in the family’s 14-room mansion at Inverrary Country Club in Lauderhill.
Marilyn Taylor was born Oct. 6, 1925, in Chicago, the daughter of Angeline and Percival Taylor and younger sister of June, who had dreams of being a dancer.
Read more at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.