Obituary

Lifelong Plainview resident Marvin Ferrell Marshall, 60, died Jan. 9, 2007, at Covenant Hospital Plainview of heart failure. Services will be held at 3 p.m. today, Jan. 11, at First United Methodist Church with Dr. Lewis Holland and the Rev. Sam Medina officiating. Interment will follow in Plainview Memorial Park by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. Judge Marshall was born in Plainview on March 28, 1946, to Marvin Glenn and the late Elsa Jeanette Marshall. He graduated from Plainview High School in 1964. In 1969, he graduated from Texas Tech University with a bachelor of science degree in political science. He married Carolyn Sears on Nov. 19, 1971, in Plainview. In 1971, he graduated with honors from the second class of Texas Tech Law School and began work as a lawyer with the LaFont Law Firm, LLP, in Plainview. Soon afterwards, he was elected to an unexpired term as county attorney for Hale County and district attorney for the 64th District of Hale County. He was re-elected in 1976 and again in 1980. In 1981, he was appointed by William P. Clements, then governor of Texas, as state district judge of the 242nd District Court. That same year, he was honored as a distinguished alumnus of the Texas Tech Law School. He was re-elected to the 242nd District Court in 1982, 1986, 1990 and again in 1994, and served on the court until 1997. In 1997, he assumed the status of visiting judge and sat in courts throughout Texas, especially in the Lubbock and Dallas areas. In 2005, he returned to private practice with the law firm of Turner and Jordan, LLP, in Lubbock. Judge Marshall was a 27-year survivor of Hodgkin Lymphoma and a 10-year survivor of a heart attack. He enjoyed hunting, collecting Native American artifacts and being outdoors, and was a long-time collector and rebuilder of classic automobiles. An annual expedition to South Texas Hill Country to see the wildflowers in bloom was a favorite pastime of his. Marvin Marshall was a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church in Plainview. Judge Marshall is survived by his wife, Carolyn Marshall of Plainview; daughter Amanda Marshall of Oxford, England; daughter Kelli Marshall of Lubbock; father, Marvin Glenn Marshall of Plainview; sister and brother-in-law, Glenda and Glenn Mahagan of Kress; sister and brother-in-law Theresa "Tesa" and Tim Benefield of Jonestown; and brother-in-law Larry Sears of Lubbock. He is further survived by seven nieces and nephews and nine grand-nieces and nephews. Judge Marshall was preceded in death by his mother, Jeanette Marshall. Memorial funds have been established at Hale County State Bank, P.O. Box 970, Plainview, TX 79072; and at Plains Capital Bank, P.O. Box 271, Lubbock, TX 79408. Funds will be sent to Texas Tech Law School and to Duke University School of Medicine's heart disease research program.
Published in the Plainview Daily Herald from 1/11/2007 - 1/12