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Alberta Marshall

GREENWICH - A ful and extraordinary lady has left our lives. Alberta Marshall died at the Wes-el-edu-in ley Health Care Center in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 17, 2017 at the age of 93. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 17, 1923, the dest child of Gertrude and Albert Farler. She was cated in Winnipeg public schools and was the first her family to graduate from the University of Manitoba, with a degree in education. She used the knowledge gained as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse on the Manitoba prairie.

While at the university berta met husband-toher be, Alexander Marshall (in a canoe, as she liked to tell it). They were married on September 18, 1946, after which they moved to Louisville, Kentucky for a job in the insurance industry for Alex and as a schoolteacher and librarian for Alberta. She became a naturalized American citizen. Several years later they relocated to California, where their four children were born. In 1968 they moved to Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, where they lived for seven-re 2001 teen years. They traveled widely in the U.S. after tirement before settling in Tucson, Arizona. In Alberta moved to a senior community in Bennington, Vermont, and then to Dia York. mond Ridge in Troy, New

Alberta was a person of many talents and interests. She loved life and loved people, and in return was loved by many. She was a voracious reader, a lover of music and talented pianist, an energetic walker, a determined housekeeper who earned the fond sobriquet “tidy lady,” a committed member of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) on whose behalf she traveled world “fam remembered. wide, an avid gardener, and the family historian. In addition to all this, she was the manager of ily laughs,” for which she will be long and lovingly

She was predeceased by her husband Alexander and by her son Rory Neil Marshall.

She is survived by her sister Edna Lent le of Win Lau Cali-grand chil great-grand chi land-nipe-g; daughters rel Cleary and husband Robin of Brentwood, fornia and Fern Bradley and husband Tom Cole of Cambridge, NY; son Barry Wayne Marshall and wife Jeri Burns of Philmont, NY. She has seven dren, six dren, and many nieces nephews, all of whom she took time to know.

In lieu of flowers, rial donations may be sent to the National Wildlife Federation or the Wesley Foundation.