Marcia S. Daniel (1953-2018)
Apr 17, 2018Mohr) DanielEnlargeMarcia S. Daniel, who during a more than three-decade career at the FBI worked on the Oklahoma City bombing case and helped authors and screenwriters navigate the public records process, died March 17 at Heritage Village of Waterville. She was 64.She had Alzheimer’s, with which she was diagnosed at 53 and prompted her departure from the FBI, her sisters said.Ms. Daniel held many roles within the bureau — organizing and labeling evidence and artifacts, testifying in court about criminal cases, and even one time leading the interior design for a new FBI building, sister Karen Shelt said. She spent years as an information agent for the FBI’s Freedom of Information Act office, conducting research of public documents for journalists, authors, and others, sister Leanna Rearick said.Gregg Herken in his book Brotherhood of the Bomb about scientists in the Manhattan Project thanks Ms. Daniel, saying she was “a ‘FOIA angel’ at the FBI and deserves all the awards the bureau can possibly give her.”Late in her career at the FBI, she developed ways to streamline the FOIA process for authors, and received a commendation from then-U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno for her work, Ms. Shelt said.Among the movies she helped conduct research for was Mississippi Burning, about the FBI’s investigation into the 1964 murder of three civil rights workers.“She was very confident and bright and able to see lots of sides of things,” Ms. Shelt said.Born Marcia Mohr on Oct. 5, 1953, to Robert and Rose Mohr of Wauseon, Ms. Daniel graduated from Wauseon High School in 1972.She left home soon after she graduated, heading to Kansas City first for an airline’s stewardess training program, before she was recruited by the bureau, said Ms. Shelt, who was 18 and her sisters 7 and 6 when their mother died. Ms. Shelt said she essentially took over raising her sisters when their mother died, but understood and was supportive when Ms. Daniel left for the city.“To make the complete break that she did, and she felt that she n... (Toledo Blade)
