Isabelle Mary Mickey Marshall

Isabelle Mary Mickey Marshall, age 95, died on August 10, 2001 at Morningside Manor in San Antonio. She was born on June 4, 1906. Called "Bella" by her family and "Mickey" by others, she was the last survivor of the ten children of Patrick and Alice McCann Quinn of Belfast, Ireland. As a young girl, she was an apprentice seamstress in the Linen Mills of Belfast. On an errand for her mother, she was grazed by gunfire from the unrest in Northern Ireland that persists until today. In 1922, as a teen, she was sent by her parents to join her older brothers and sister in the United States. Initially, she lived in Michigan, but moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1930, where she worked as a hostess for the Stouffer Restaurant chain and became a U.S. citizen. In Cincinnati, she met and married her husband, Edgar A. Marshall, Sr., who was an auditor for RKO Motion Picture Theaters. In 1933, they honeymooned in San Antonio, where RKO owned the Majestic, Aztec and Texas theaters. With the demise of motion-picture studio owned theaters, they moved permanently to San Antonio in 1950. In San Antonio, she was an active member of the Central Catholic High School and Texas A&M Mother's Club. She also reconnected with her seamstress training, joining the millinery department of the Frost Bros. Downtown store. Later, she moved to the Frost gift shop on the riverwalk. In retirement, she and her husband traveled, often as apart of a San Antonio Little Theatre group or with the Irish Cultural Society. She was an early member of Holy Rosary Parish and lived in her University Park home until she was eighty-eight. She moved to Morningside Manor in 1995. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ed, Sr., in 1980. She is survived by her son, Col. Edgar A. Marshall, Jr., USA Ret. and his wife, Joan of Alexandria, Virginia and Saxeville, Wisconsin; grandson, Major Edgar Jeep Marshall, USA and his wife, Kristi; and great grandson, Nicolas of Wahiawa, Hawaii; granddaughter, Erin Robinson and her husband Bill; and great grandsons, Kenneth, Nathan and Brian of San Antonio; grandson, Patrick Marshall and his wife, Ann; and great grandson, Collin of Dallas; and numerous nieces and nephews located in Michigan and along the east coast.