Marshall Louis Page

Marshall was born in Walnut Springs, Texas, on December 29, 1920, at his grandmother’s house. He grew up in Temple, Texas where his father was the local telephone manager. Just after his twelfth birthday, his father was transferred to Austin, Texas, where Marshall graduated from Junior High and High School, and received a B.A. degree in Spanish in 1942. World War II was going on, and in September of that year he was inducted into the army and sent to Georgia, Louisiana, California, and Missouri. In 1944 his group was sent to England to join the signal group that was sending and receiving messages for General Eisenhower. In October his group was transferred to Versailles, France, and ten months later they were moved to Frankfurt, Germany after the war was over. He arrived at his parent’s home in Walnut Springs, Texas on August 1, 1946, where he began to teach music in the school there. In 1948 he joined the Original Texas Wranglers of Hamilton, Texas, and played with them until the end of 1952. While playing, he met his future wife, Geraldine, and they were married in Gustine, Texas on December 17, 1950. Their son, Bobby, was born in Gustine on April, 1953. Marshall had started working for Temco Aircraft in 1952, and the family moved to Grand Prairie. In 1955, Marshall left Temco and started working for General Portland Cement Company in Dallas, where he worked as an insurance clerk and then shipping clerk for 30½ years, retiring at the end of 1985.

Marshall got his first guitar on his 12th birthday, and he learned to play it and joined a group playing on the radio in Austin. He also learned to play the mandolin and piano, and he played different instruments during this time. After moving to Grand Prairie he started giving music lessons to a lot of young people. He still played in three bands, entertaining the seniors. Geraldine, his wife, had health problems and was transferred to a nursing home across the street from his house, where he visited her daily. In December of 1995 she quit eating, and she was taken to the local hospital. When she was X-rayed, she was found to have cancer, and she died nine days later. She was buried on Marshall’s seventy-fifth birthday in a cemetery in Walnut Springs, Texas.

Marshall, Geraldine, and Bobby were members of the First Methodist Church in Grand Prairie, and he was still a member of the Memorial Class, as well as a member of the choir.

Their son Bobby, married Carolyn in 1974 and they have two sons, Clint Louis Page born June 6, 1981 and Zachary Dale Page, born 1998, they live in Waxahachie. Great grandchildren: Jasmine Rebecca Page, Adam Louis Page, and Melanie Grace Page.