OBITUARY: Marshall Kathan, 1906-2005, Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa 

Original version posted on www.mcpress.com - July 13, 2005




                            Marshall Kathan

Graveside services for Marshall Kathan, 99, were held at the National
Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Wednesday, June 22, 2005.  Marshall
passed away on June 19, 2005.

Marshall Kathan was born June 1, 1906 in Osage, Iowa to Charles and Emma
Kathan.  He had been a resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, for thirty-two
years since his retirement.

Marshall was a 1924 graduate of Osage High School, was a graduate of Iowa
State Teachers College and later attended the National Academy of Art in
Chicago, the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC, and studied in Paris
for one year.

He was a World War II veteran, having achieved the rank of Captain in the
U.S. Army. His career in art involved stage sets and costume drawing and
he spent many years working for the Government as an art illustrator for
the U.S. Weather Bureau, and the Dept. of Labor as a technical illustrator.

Preceding Marshall in death were his parents, a brother, Maurice Kathan, and
a sister, Grace Shumate.

His survivors include a niece, Colleen Gast, and a nephew, Gregory Kathan of
Iowa, and many grandnieces and grandnephews; also by his close friends Ray
and Millie Miller of Albuquerque, New Mexico.



                     Copyright 2005, K. L. Kittleson