Tri-City Ledger -

Marianne Rose Roman Eddins, 79, died Wednesday, April 24, 2019.

Mrs. Eddins was born Jan. 11, 1940, in Flushing, N.Y. and worked for IBM Corporation, where she met her future spouse, for many years. The two moved several places with their jobs before they relocated to Alabama, where she enrolled at USA in Mobile and studied chemistry and biology, graduating cum laude as bachelor of science. She worked with the Baldwin County Commission to establish the county's first mosquito control project before she and her husband established a 50-acre muscadine vineyard and 100,000 gallon winery in Per...