Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, August 7, 1995 TAG: 9508070084
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: HOUSTON LENGTH: Medium
``I learned a great many things from him,'' said Jay Grubb, who knew Marshall for 40 years and worked under him at Union Texas Petroleum.
``He's done a number of wonderful things for a lot of people, a lot of companies, his government and the universities,'' he said.
Marshall, who earlier this year suffered from pneumonia, died Saturday at Park Plaza Hospital in Houston. He was 90.
Marshall's third marriage in 1994 to Playboy's 1993 playmate of the year ``ought to go to the backfront,'' Grubb said. A battle over Marshall's estate - reportedly worth about $550 million - has been brewing for months.
The model and Marshall's son, Pierce Marshall, went to court in February to fight over the fortune. Court papers filed then described the senior Marshall as ``an incapacitated adult.''
The money wound up being put in a trust and Smith largely was cut off from the funds. The same week, Smith complained of financial trouble on a tabloid TV show. She professed her love for Marshall and said she performed her ``wife duties.''
Marshall was a board member at Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries and Houston-based Coastal Corp.
``J. Howard Marshall II made legendary contributions to the energy industry in America,'' Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., Coastal's chairman and chief executive, said through a spokesman.
Born in Philadelphia, Marshall earned a bachelor's degree at Haverford College and attended Yale Law School, where he became an assistant professor.
In 1933, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes asked Marshall to work for the government. He co-wrote the Code of Fair Competition for the Petroleum Industry that year and drafted the executive order creating the National Petroleum Council in 1946.
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