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Show A2 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1999 lAROUIUDlDAVIS CLIPPER TODAY Women should flee abuse, mom says City attorney Gary Crane receives award from state BY TOM BUSSELBERG Clipper Today News Editor - LAYTON Layton City Attorney Gary Crane has been honored as one of two recipients of the Utah Appointed Official of the Year - A Clearfield CLEARFIELD woman who lost her daughter to a brutal, abusive relationship which ended in murder is sounding a plea: I am writing this in hopes that those women who are being abused by husbands or boy friends will get out of the relationship before they end up and believe me as my daughter did it happens more frequently than award. Gary Crane was honored recently during the organization's annual banquet in Salt Lake City. Tremonton City Manager Richard Woodworth was also honored. Nominated by their peers and selected by a volunteer committee, Crane and Woodworth tied to receive you think." Those are the words of Jeanne Bodily, w'ho lost her daughter five years ago. "It has been five long years since my daughter. Maria Louise Bodily Anderson, age 27, was very brutally beaten to death in Evanston, Wyo., in the early morning of Oct. 8. 1994. She was six weeks pregnant with her fourth child at the time." Good the annual Making Government Better award for their contributions to their cities and to the Utah League of Cities and Towns as appointed officials in municipal government. The two received their awards in front of approximately 700 municipal officials. Bodily's daughter's In a resolution signed by Governor Leavitt, Crane was praised for his service as Layton City Attorney since 1993. During that time he has integrated cases a pretrial system for non-jur- y that has resulted in substantial savings to the city and established a working group with the Second District Court judges to insure that all cases are treated consistently from one judge to another. Crane also volunteers as a pro tempore judge to assist the courts and provide citizens a valuable service in small claims court. In addition, he has been an important part of the ULCT Legislative support team. Both Crane and Woodworth received $500 for use by their cities. Prior to coming to Layton City, Crane work in the legal department drove from Evanston to alert her to the death. The murderer was her boyfriend's brother. W Dennis Marshall, who had moved in with them about May of that year. They were all on drugs. The Clearfield woman belies es now is also an appropriate time to October is Awareness share her message Violence Domestic Month. Her daughter. Louise, had been married and had a little baby girl. She left her husband and baby when the child was about 2, taking off with Dennis' brother, Alfred J. Marshall. She lived with him for about eight years, bearing two children, Bodily wrote. The three children at the time of her death were two daughters, 5 and 5 months, and a 3 year-ol- d boy. She had been beaten many times by these men but stay with them rather than move back home, live by family rules, and go through drug rehab, Bodily said. In addition, the daddy of the two little ones abused the little boy terribly many times but (Wyoming) family services could not prove it so it went on and on. The Clearfield woman continued: At her (Louise's) death my life turned upside down. I was in shock for a long time and am still on antidepressants. I was recovering from a mastectomy done that June. It was malignant breast cancer. After her death I had a physical and found out I had thyroid disease. I got custody of the two little one week after the death (the oldest was with the she added. It was two years before she got final cus- - OCTOBER is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Jeanne Bodily of Clearfield took the occasion to honor her daughter while personally forgiving her daughter's killer. letter oppos- After reading an tody. Louise is now a silent victim but my whole family became victims and I am a very' verbal victim of this hideous domestic violence as it has changed our fives forever The killer and was murder imprisoned on second-degre- e charges for 32 years, but can be released earlier for good behavior. For health reasons. Bodily could not care for her grandchildren on a long-terbasis. They have been home placed in a loving, with other children. They (grandchildren) were adopted two years ago and are very happy. The little boy, however, still has emotional problems from being abused," she wrote. Only weeks ago. Bodily went face to face with her daughter's killer. ing any consideration of leniency for the man, she shocked parole board officers by seeking a visit with Dennis Marshall. I want to know why you killed my daughter; she asked over the phone looking at him through a plate glass window. I don't know, I remember we had a fight the night before, then I took more drugs. I dont remember anything after that. It was drugs and booze! At his repeated claims not to remember, Bodily replied: You have ruined my life. This past year I have finally been able to laugh once in a while.. Jam not the same person I was. I haven't got much of a fife any plea-bargain- two-pare- nt Then she added, That is not what I really came here to say. I came to tell you that I forgive you for killing my daughter!' She added it was in Christ's hands to judge, her need was to forgive. He simply replied, Thank you. I know from the time she died that I had forgiven in my heat...I feel at peace with it all, because I've done what I should. She has been active in Wyoming memorial services and an Evanston candlelight vigil, among other related efforts. But most of all. 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