RALLS (Special) - Services for Lillian Marsh, 85, will be at 3 p.m. today in Ralls First United Methodist Church with the Rev. David Ray, pastor, officiating.Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
She died Saturday in Crosbyton Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Whitney. She married James R. Marsh on April 16, 1918, in Crosbyton. He died in 1964. She was a Methodist and member of the Joy Club. She was a past matron of Order of the Eastern Star. She lived in Crosby County most of her life.
Survivors include a son, Ray of Ralls; three daughters, Gwen McDuff of Ralls, Elwanda Cox of Lubbock and Faye Stevens of El Paso; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
Grandsons will be pallbearers.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 29, 1985
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

Funeral services for James Rubert Marsh, 65, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in Ralls First Baptist Church with Mr. C. M. Fields, pastor, officiating. Burial was in Ralls Cemetery.Marsh was killed and two other area men injured in a car-pickup collision Friday afternoon on FM Road 400 four miles South of Plainview.
Marsh, driver of the car, died 2:30 p.m. Friday in a Plainview hospital where he was undergoing emergency treatment.
Wyatt, 23, driver of the pickup truck and his passenger, identified as Dale Crooks, 21, both of the Happy Union Community.
A native of Parker County, Marsh moved to Crosbyton in 1916 where he lived until moving to Ralls in 1934.
Survivors include his wife, Lillian; a son, Ray Marsh, Ralls; three daughters, Mrs. W. C. McDuff, Ralls; Mrs. Valton Cox and Mrs. Faye Cato, both of Lubbock; 11 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, four great-grandchildren; a brother, Jack Cox, Crosbyton; five sisters, Mrs. Gordon Tyler, Crosbyton; Mrs. Lloyd Cox, Tucumcari, N.M.; Mrs. Curtis Davis, Dallas; Mrs. Bill Mayes, Crosbyton, and Mrs. Wilbert Ellison, Portales, N.M.
©Crosbyton Review, June 12, 1964
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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