Marlin Kuykendall (1934/35 – January 17, 2021) was a

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Personal

Kuykendall was married to Tana, and has three sons. On November 11, 2010, while waiting to judge a parade, Kuykendall suffered a heart attack but later recovered. He died on January 17, 2021, from cancer.

Business Experience

Kuykendall opened the town's first

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dealership and later acquired the

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and GMC

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s there as well. He also built the Antelope Hills Inn, and ran it himself until 2007.

Military service

Kuykendall enlisted in the

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Army National Guard in 1953 and was put on

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with the

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in 1956. Kuykendall served 3 years before returning to the

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, where he was made the Prescott Unit's Commanding Officer in 1959. He later served as Tactical Officer of the Arizona Military Academy, as an aide-de-camp to the Commanding General of the

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, and as Northern Arizona Chair of the Defense Department's

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(ESGR), and escorted civilian VIPs on fact-finding tours across several continents.

Politics

Kuykendall was elected to the Prescott City Council in 1971 and was appointed to the council in 1991 to fulfill the remainder of an unexpired term due to a councilor's death. Kuykendall won the mayoral primary election in September 2009 against incumbent mayor Jack Wilson. Kuykendall won 7,365 votes to Wilson's 2,662 votes. Kuykendall won re-election in 2011 against challengers Mary Ann Suttles and Deborah Thurston. He won a third term in 2013 in a race against Bill Lindsay. He did not seek re-election in 2015 and was succeeded as mayor by Harry Oberg.

Personal

Business Experience

Military service

Politics

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