THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 27, 1996 TAG: 9609270478
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, D.C. LENGTH: 27 lines
Cmdr. John C. Marshall, U.S. Navy (ret.), 86, died Sept. 23, 1996.
A native of Macon County, Tenn., he was a son of the late Homer L. and Hassie Mae Hale Marshall. During the early part of World War II, he made four convoy escort trips to Murmansk, Russia, and later participated in the Normandy invasion. He was en route to Japan when the war came to a close. During his service career, he received the good conduct, American Theatre, European-African Theatre, Pacific Theatre, United Nations, Nation Defense Service and Korean Service medals.
After the war, he served in the U.S. embassy in France. Cmdr. Marshall was a graduate of George Washington University with a B.A. in political science and was a life member of Dawson Masonic Lodge (NU)16.
Survivors include his wife, Mandalene Swindell Marshall; two brothers, James T. Marshall of Lafayette, Tenn., Gerald B. Marshall of Springfield; a stepbrother, Edgar Sidney Zinn of Albuquerque, N.M.; and a stepsister, Evelyn Cromwell of Rodeo, Calif.
Funeral services with military honors will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in the R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home by Navy Chaplain Xenakis. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today.
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