Pemel Marshall Obituary (1927

Pemel Marshall, age 87 of Prosser, entered into rest on March 9, 2015 at Kennewick Life Care Center. She was born on March 23, 1927 in Stillwater, Oklahoma to Oscar L. and Jeanette (Holmes) French. At the age of nine, she lost her mother, as well as her baby sister, due to child birth complications. She was raised and educated traveling across the United States with her and siblings and father, following his job from state to state. Pemel met her future husband, Charles Forrest Marshall, in La Grande, Oregon where they were married on April 8, 1950. They made their home in La Grande and started their family. They moved to Payette, Idaho until making their home in Prosser in 1950. The young couple raised seven children on their dairy farm located on Old Inland Empire Highway. Pemel enjoyed being a farm wife and mother. She loved animals of all kinds and enjoyed playing bingo. Pemel is survived by her daughter, Bobbie Gagner; her sons, John Marshall and Danny Marshall; her brother, Johnny French; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles; her daughters, Margaret and Pamela; and her sons, Oscar and Samuel. A private family graveside service was held on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at the Prosser Cemetery. Afterglow I’d like the memory of me to be a happy one. I’d like to leave an afterglow of smiles when life is done. I’d like to leave an echo. . . whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days. I’d like the tears of those who grieve to dry before the sun of happy memories that I leave when life is done.