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Shirley Benson Manning, age 86 of East Grand Rapids, passed away March 12, 2025. The daughter of Norwegian immigrants, Shirley was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938 to Axel and Margaret Bensen. Shirley was crowned the first "Miss Norway of Greater NYC" in 1954, or as she liked to remind her...
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