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  Services for J.B. "Jocko" Marshall of Ralls were held at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 13, 2001, at Ralls First Baptist Church with the Rev. Floyd Haddock officiating and the Rev. Randy Bartley assisting at the cemetery.

Burial was in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.

He died on Sunday, Mar. 11, 2001, at Crosbyton Hospital.

He was born on June 30, 1925, in Paris, TX.

He married Minto Jones on July 9, 1943, in Cone.

He was a member of the Ralls First Baptist Church. He was a member and former Lion Boss of the Ralls Lions Club. He was a member of the Cone Round Table and the Crosby County Fuel Assn. Round Table. He farmed in the McCoy, Farmer and Cone areas since 1943. He served in the Army during WWII as a member of the 158th Regimental Combat Team in the Phillipines. He lived in Cone and Ralls all his life.

Surviviors include: his wife; one daughter, Melissa Marshall of Austin; one son, Chris Marshall; three sisters, Martha Joy Botkin of Floydada, Bobbie Nell Lee of Littlefield, and Sue Binder of Ralls; and two grandchildren, Cole and Carly Marshall.

©The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, March 23, 2001, page 6