Mr. Lukens was convicted in 1989 of offenses relating to paying a teenager to have sex, but he refused Republicans’ demands that he resign his House seat.

Marilyn P. Wilson MONTPELIER — Marilyn Pauline Lukens Wilson passed peacefully on February 20, 2023, of natural causes with her children by her side at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, VT.

MIDDLETOWN — In 1967, a group of teenage Republicans elected California Gov. Ronald Reagan as president of the United States and Donald Edgar “Buz” Lukens, of Middletown, as vice president.

Lukens sold her Palm Springs property in the 1910s to another character, Jessica Morgenthau, a widow of the prominent Morgenthau family of New York. Morgenthau built a little cabin known as the “Doll ...