The money will pay for new, high-tech equipment at the 60-year-old facility where the company employs about 1,400 people, supplying metal parts for GM vehicles across North America.

The monument will be dedicated in Marion on Sept. 30 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of Dean's death. The actor died Sept. 30, 1955, in a California car crash at age 24 after appearing in only three movies: "Giant," ''East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause."