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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Newspaper clipping, Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon, Alfred Soldier, 1945



Capt. Joel Y. Marshall, Army Medical Corps, Killed in Action Mar. 15, 1945 in Wessel, Germany

Military funeral services for Capt. Joel York Marshall, USA Medical Corps, son of Mrs. Elizabeth Y. Marshall, Oak street, Alfred, and husband for Mrs. Jennie M, Marshall of Ashtabula, O., who was killed in action Mar. 15, 1945 in Wessel, Ger., will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 at the Marshall home in Alfred.  Rev. . .
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From other partial clippings:

Capt. Joel York Marshall, 32, Army Medical Corps, son of Mrs. Elizabeth York Marshall, RN, and the late Dr. Sumner B. Marshall of Alfred, was killed in action in Germany, Mar. 15, according to word received Friday by his mother.  A Sanford High School graduate in 1929, Capt. Marshall spent his summers in the offices of Drs. Stephen A. Cobb and H. Danforth Ross here while studying for his medical degree at Canadian College, University of Western Toronto, London, Ontario.

Also included on this week's. . .
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. . . was awarded his medical degree in 1941.

He was graduated from 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 Sept. 1942.  He married 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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