Louis Preston Marshall Obit
Hunt Co TX
Submitted by Brandon Darrow
Rites Today for Louis P. Marshall (Greenville Herald Banner, Thursday Morning, April 14, 1949)
Last rites will be observed this afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Shady Grove Methodist church for Louis Preston Marshall, 42, former Greenville resident who succumbed Tuesday night in a Dallas hospital.
Officiating will be Rev. George Casey, Rev. Richard Ausborne and Rev. P.G. Hightower. Interment will be in Forest Park.
Acting as pallbearers will be Guy Black, Roy Holder, Gus McHam, Benton Wolfe, L.B. George and R.H. Dickson. The Greenville K of P Lodge will have charge of graveside services.
The body has been removed to the home of his sister, Mrs. Ward Crisp, North Heights, by the James-Coker-Peters Funeral Home. It will remain there until shortly before time for the services.
Mr. Marshall was born in Hunt County on February 21, 1907. He spent most of his life in and near Greenville and was a member of the Greenville police force for seven years. He was at one time an employee of the Paris Grocer Company.
Seriously injured during the war while working in a war plant at Port Arthur, his health had not been good since that time. He was a member of the Orange, Tex., Methodist church and the Greenville K of P Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; his mother, Mrs. Mary B. Marshall of Dallas; two sons, Louis and James Marshall of Greenville; a brother, Howard Marshall and a sister, Mrs. Ward Crisp of Greenville; and one grandson. His father died on May 23, 1938.