NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP — Grace E. Parolini, age 84, of Negaunee Township, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025, at the Mill Creek Senior Living Community in Marquette.

Born on July 28, 1941, in Trimountain and raised in Painesdale, she was the daughter of George and Lois (Key) Kilmer. As a child, Grace loved the outdoors, she enjoyed fishing and playing baseball and basketball with her friends and children from the neighborhood. She attended South Range Elementary and graduated from Jeffers High School with the class of 1959.

After high school she began working in the kitchen at the Copper Country Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Hancock. During this time, she met Clarence, her future husband. They made their first home in Negaunee Township and together raised two children, daughter Wend

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