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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

November 5, 1998

ALICE MARSHALL DIES AT 80
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Alice Hepner Marshall, 80, died here Oct. 30.
School teacher and office secretary, Marshall was "both a delightful and
fascinating person with her own interests and a fierce supporter of her
husband," said the Rev. Robert N. Bacher, executive for administration in
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Office of the Bishop.
     Marshall "married a college classmate in 1943, during his second year
of seminary," she wrote of herself.  Her husband, the Rev. Robert J.
Marshall, went on to become president of the Lutheran Church in America --
one of three church bodies that became the ELCA in 1988.  Robert Marshall
is now senior scholar in residence at the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago, an ELCA seminary.
     "Alice kept a creative tension between being the wife of a world
Lutheran leader and her own strong sense of self," said Bacher.  "We will
miss her.  We thank God for her presence among us."
     Alice Marshall was born of missionary parents in Osaka, Japan.  She
attended Canadian Academy in Japan, and she earned degrees in education
from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and National College of
Education, Evanston, Ill.  Wittenberg is a college of the ELCA.
     Marshall taught classes at Ashland High School, Ashland, Ohio, and
elementary schools of Bellwood, Ill.  She received an honorary doctor of
laws degree from Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kan., another ELCA college.
     Marshall served on the boards of the Seafarers and International
House, New York, and Wittenberg University.  She was a member of the League
of Women Voters, Chi Omega Sorority and Women of the ELCA.  She was an
officer of the Guild of Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
     A memorial service will be held Nov. 13 at Augustana Lutheran Church
in Chicago.  Alice Marshall is survived by her husband; a son, Robert E.
Marshall; a daughter, Peggy Niederer; a brother, Edward Hepner, and six
grandchildren.

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