Dr. Arthur Elliott Marshall, 87, of 65 Greenstoke Loop, Tryon died May 21, 2011 at the Hospice House of the Carolina Foothills in Landrum. He moved to Tryon from St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1999, when he married Jo Donna Sperry.
Arthur had practiced dentistry in St. Petersburg for 40 years after moving from Albion, Ill. He was active with the Masons, Rotary Club, dental associations and the Florida Archaeology Society. His place of birth and family home was in Fairfield, Ill.
Survivors include his son, Arthur, a federal judge in Arlington, Va.; his daughter, Valerie, a mediator/attorney in Orlando, Fla.; his sister, Margaret Walker of Austin, Texas, and his wife, Jo Sperry Marshall. Another sister, Anita Jackson, died in 2010.
Arthur is buried in Bay Pines Veterans Cemetery in St. Petersburg, where his first wife, Jacqueline Maixner, is interred.
There will be a brief informal gathering in the memorial garden of the Congregational Church in Tryon on July 3, 2011 at 12:15 p.m. for friends and relatives to pay their respects and honor the memory of his Tryon years. Dr. Robert Barrows will preside.
An online guest register is available at www.mcfarlandfuneralchapel.com.
McFarland Funeral Chapel, Tryon.