Edward Clark Marshall Jr.

OBITUARY IN TRAVERSE CITY RECORD EAGLE

Edward C. Marshall, Jr.

Died January 28, 2000

EAST LELAND - Edward C. Marshall, Jr., 71, died quietly Friday in his home on Lake Leelanau of complications resulting from lung cancer. The son of Edward C. Marshall, Sr. and Edith Durrell Marshall, he was born on June 4, 1928, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

He is survived by his loving wife of forty years, Mary Allen (Mallie) Marshall; daughter, Elizabeth Collier Marshall of Ann Arbor; two sons, Edward Clark Marshall III of Greenville, S.C. and John Durrell Marshall of Seattle and Patagonia, Chile; two grandsons, Edward Clark Marshall IV and Joseph McKean Marshall of Greenville, S.C.; and his sister, Ann Whitley of Amherst, Va.

Ed attended Culver Military Academy of Culver, Ind. and is a 1945 graduate of Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati. He graduated in 1951 from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. with a bachelor of science degree in forestry. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He served with the U.S. Marine Corps from 1951 to 1953, fighting in Korea with the 1st Marine Division. Once a Marine, always a Marine.

He began his career with Champion Paper Company and was selected as their first sales trainee. He worked in sales in their Hamilton, Ohio, Houston, Texas, Philadelphia, Pa. and Canton, N.C. divisions. Later he worked for Lee Paper Company in Kalamazoo, Mich. In 1961 he returned to his home of Cincinnati and became a sales associate with Herron, Hansen and Rebhun Realtors.

He first came to Leelanau County, Mich. as a child in the 1920's, returning every year until he moved his family there permanently in 1966. He worked for the planning department of the City of Traverse City until he opened his own business, Edward C. Marshall and Company in Suttons Bay in 1967. He was a real estate broker, licensed appraiser, building contractor and registered forester. He retired in 1997.

In 1971 Marshall joined the Suttons Bay Rotary Club, serving as its president from 1974 to 1976. He started the Rotary Youth Exchange program in 1974 and participated locally until his death. He also served on the Rotary International District 6290 Youth Exchange Committee for 21 years. He was awarded the Paul Harris Fellow by his club in 1991 for his work on behalf of students everywhere. In the 1980's, he was one of several Rotarians who worked to keep the Suttons Bay Grange open and preserve it as a meeting place for the club.

Marshall was a member of several boards, clubs and organizations, including Traverse City Board of Realtors, Leelanau County Construction Board of Review, Leland Township Board of Review, American Society of Foresters, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Cadillac Sportman's Club, Snug Harbor Hunting Club, Military Vehicle Collectors Club and the Leland Yacht Club. Through 4-H, he taught Hunter Safety for many years. He was a life member of the National Rifle Association.

He was quietly passionate about improving zoning in Leelanau County and early on helped members of the Odawa tribe secure their right of access across private lands to ancestral burial grounds. After single-handling his sailboat from the Atlantic Ocean to Charlevoix, Mich., Ed operated one of the first charter yacht services in the northern Great Lakes. He always said that a "part of your pay is a view of the bay." Ed cared deeply about the land and his community, but his family always came first.

A visitation celebrating Ed will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. today at Martinson Funeral Home in Suttons Bay. Memorials may be directed to the Suttons Bay Rotary Club Youth Exchange Program.

Traverse City Record-Eagle Newspaper

Letter to the Alumni Office at the University of the South, Sewanee, TN informing them of dad's death.

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September 26, 2009

Mr. Yogi Anderson

Executive Director

Associated Alumni

The University of the South

Sewanee, TN 37383

Dear Yogi:

It is with great sadness that I write to tell you of dad’s passing. He was a lifelong Sewanee man, a friend of Abbo, classmate, fraternity brother and pal of Willie Cocke, Crow Elliot and many others. Growing up, I was regaled with stories of the mountain. It was dad’s love of the place that prompted me to check it out and at age twelve, decide that Sewanee was where I would go to college.

You probably don’t know that dad was kicked out of Sewanee before Spring break of his final semester senior year. In 1946, like many new students, dad was thrown in with a group of much older and experienced men home from the war. During his sophomore year, his father died. Their plans to go into business together were dashed. That same year, he traded a case of beer for an M1 carbine that a classmate smuggled home from Guadalcanal in a sea bag. During a drunken bout that fateful senior year, dad threatened a young man with it and the rest is history.

Six months later without his degree, he was drafted into the Marine Corps and went to Korea. In 1954, after taking organic chemistry at the University of Cincinnati and transferring the credits back to the University of the South, he became a Sewanee Man. He considered himself a member of the class of 1951. He never discussed this with me, and I found out from his sister, my aunt, while I was in school there.

Those years beginning with his father’s death, his departure from Sewanee, and time in Korea left their mark. At Sewanee, he began a battle with alcohol that plagued him his whole life. Thirty years later, I saw many of my own classmates follow in his footsteps, fighting their own battles. Not wanting to make his mistakes, I have had to be vigilant about my own situation.

I tell you this because there were many Sewanee men like dad. They loved the mountain, but took away bad habits along with their degree. Enclosed, please find a small contribution in memory of dad. Find a suitable use for it, perhaps to counsel a young man or woman who like dad, is learning some bad habits. Also, I have enclosed a copy of the obituary we placed in our local paper. Would you make sure that a notice of his passing is placed in the Alumni magazine?

Yogi, thank you for doing your job well. I personally feel connected to the university by the mere fact that you are our contact. In a sea of change, your constancy is so very welcome.

Sincerely,

Edward C. Marshall III, ‘87