Walter “Red” Marlin, a 71 year old Trenton, MO resident, passed away at 6:08 p.m., Sunday, March 18, 2012 at his residence while under hospice care.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at the Whitaker-Eads Funeral Home of Trenton, MO. Rev Ron Ratliff will officiate. Burial will be in the Shelbourn Cemetery. Visitation will be open on Wednesday, March 21, with formal visitation March 21, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Mr. Marlin was born on April 29, 1940 in Jamesport, MO the son of Walter and Geneva Pouge Marlin. As a young man he worked at Reed Seed Inc., in Jamesport, Mo and then moved to Dillon, CO where he worked for Blue River Construction. Upon returning to Trenton he was employed with TMU as a lineman and retired as a Foreman in 1991.
He was married to Shirley Lovell in 1964, they had two daughters, and were later divorced in 1975. For the past 13 years he was very close to his companion, Mary Wallace.
Surviving relatives include his daughters Tammy Pipes of Laredo, MO and Teresa Chaulk and her husband, Jim of Kemmerer, WY; his mother, Dolly McClaskey of Pleasant Hill, MO; and two sisters, Gracie Cook and her husband, Merlin of Pleasant Hill, MO and Brenda Dunbar and her husband, Ricky of Stuttgart, AR; five grandsons, Cody, Lance, Nick, Sidney, and Jackson; and one great grandson, Danik, and nieces and nephews and great nieces and great nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father and one great granddaughter, Janessa.
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