Amos Marston

Amos Marston IRON MOUNTAIN - Amos Wilbur Marston, 96, of 903 Park Ave., Iron Mountain, died early Friday, Dec. 27, 2002, at home in his sleep. He was born July 8, 1906 in Chicago. After graduating from high school in Wheaton, Ill., he attended Wheaton College where he received his bachelor's degree in 1928. He began teaching high school that year in Channing, where he also coached football, basketball and baseball. He completed a master's degree in school administration at Columbia University in New York in 1931. He taught school in Leland, lower Michigan, for one year before returning to Channing in 1933 as superintendent of schools. He began teaching junior high school in Iron Mountain in 1940. He entered the U.S. Army in 1942 at the time of World War II. He served 3 1/2 years, including six months in the European Theater. He married the former Lucy Carleton Wilds of Oxford, Miss. in November, 1945. He returned to Iron Mountain as principal of the junior high school. Over the years, he assumed various teaching and administrative positions in the Iron Mountain school system, and he became the principal of East Elementary School in 1963. He coached tennis and was a lifelong enthusiast of the sport. He retired in 1972. He was a devoted member of Immanuel Baptist Church in Kingsford. He was also an active member of the Iron Mountain Rotary Club and the Gideons. He did volunteer work in the Dickinson County prisons and, with his wife, conducted volunteer religious services for many years at Highland Nursing Home and Manor Care Nursing Home. He was preceded in death by a sister, Marion Corwin; and three brothers, George Marston, Edwin Marston, and Arthur Marston. He is survived by his wife, Lucy Marston; one daughter, Mem (Bill) Lloyd of St. Paul, Minn.; four sons, Walter (Susan) Marston of Grand Rapids, lower Michigan, John Marston of Mexico City, Mexico, James Marston of Iron Mountain, and Samuel (Heidi) Marston of Severn, Md.; seven grandchildren, Katie, Laura, and John Marston, Bill and Michael Lloyd, Logan and Ethan Marston; and many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Erickson-Rochon & Nash Funeral Home in Iron Mountain and on Monday, from noon until 1 p.m., at the Immanuel Baptist Church in Kingsford. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at the church. Rev. Ron Wolfe and Rev. James Danielson will officiate. Burial will be in the Iron Mountain Cemetery Park. A memorial will be established at the Immanuel Baptist Church in his memory. Condolences may be expressed on-line to the Marston family at www.ernashfuneralhomes.com The family has entrusted the arrangements to the Erickson-Rochon & Nash Funeral Home in Iron Mountain.

Amos Marston

December 29, 2003