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Friday, December 5, 2014

Alfred Medical Officer Killed In Germany


ALFRED, March 23 (Special)--Capt. Joel York Marshall, 32, son of Mrs. Elizabeth York Marshall, RN, and the late Dr. Sumner B. Marshall of Alfred, was killed in action in Germany, March 15, according to word received by his mother today.
The telephone message came from Captain Marshall's widow, Mrs. Jennie Marshall, who is Ashtabula, O., with their small child.
He was serving with an Engineer Medical Corps unit.
His father was for more than 40 years family physician in Central York County and Capt. Marshall was awarded his medical degree at Canadian College, University of Western Toronto, London, Ontario, in 1941.  During his studies there he spent his Summers in the offices of Drs. Stephen A. Cobb and H. Danforth Ross in Sanford.
He was graduated from Sanford High School in 1929, Hebron Academy in 1930 and Bowdoin College in 1934.  He was attached to St. Luke's Hospital in Cleveland, O., when he entered the service in September, 1942.  He was united in marriage to the former Miss Jennie McCready in Ashtabula a month before entering the service.
Besides his mother, he is survived by a brother, Sumner B. Marshall, in the service in England as a special technician in the Army Air Corps; and a sister, Mrs. Robert Sherwood Whitney of Governor's Island, N.Y. whose husband is also in the Army.

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