March 8, 1928 - January 8, 2017Mardell was born in Plymouth, Minnesota, one of seven children enjoying a farm life. He attended local schools becoming the photographer for his high school annual. He served in the National Guard as a cook, bragging that he could make 100 pancakes at a time flipping the last before the first burned. He met Esther Greenberg in the late 1940s and they moved to California where they married and made a home in Yreka for 35 years. [...]
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