Obit of Settle, Marshall - Creek County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.chickashanews.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. © The Chickasha Express-Star 30 Jul 2006 Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Memory Lane Cemetery--Anadarko OK © The Chickasha Express-Star Wednesday, 8 February 2006 Marshall Settle Funeral service for Marshall Settle, age 78 of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, February 10, 2006, in the Southern Oaks Church of Christ. Pat Brooks will officiate. Marshall Settle was born the son of Jimmy Settle and Laura Tuttle Settle on June 9, 1927, in Mounds, Oklahoma. He died on February 6, 2006, in Chickasha. Interment will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home ========= © The Chickasha Express-Star Thursday, 9 February 2006 Marshall Settle Funeral service for Marshall Settle, age 78 of Chickasha, Oklahoma will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 10, 2006, in the Southern Oaks Church of Christ. Pat Brooks will officiate. Marshall Settle was born the son of Jimmy Settle and Laura Tuttle Settle on June 9, 1927, in Mounds, Oklahoma. He died on February 6, 2006, in Chickasha. Marshall Settle was born in Mounds, Oklahoma. He grew up on farms in Caddo County. At the time Hitler began his march into Poland and across Europe, the family farmed west of Sickles, calling Eakly, Lookeba and Sickles their home communities. The Settles'contribution to the war effort during most of the 1940s was spent on farms near Washita, Oney and later Ft. Cobb where Marshall graduated from high school in 1947. Following high school, he attended Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, before enrolling in journalism and photography courses at Oklahoma A & M (OSU) in Stillwater. Then before joining life in the fast lanes as bookkeeper at a cotton gin in Ft. Cobb, he spent several months as a guitar playing country western troubadour singer on several radio stations across the state of Texas. From the cotton gin, he moved downtown at bookkeeper/teller for W. D. Finney at the Washita Valley Bank. Then on to life in the big-town as Circulation Manager for Wallace Kidd and Joe McBride at the Anadarko Daily News. After a couple of years, Marshall answered the entrepreneurial urge by establishing Settle Photography in Anadarko. In the early 1960s, he obtained sales and adjusters insurance licenses, sold the photography business to his brother, Manly, and bought an insurance agency in Chickasha. In the mid-1960s he passed the NASD securities exam and was appointed as a securities Representative by the financial services firm of Waddell and Reed in Kansas City. In 1975, Marshall and his wife, Fran, purchased the Star Publishing Company in Chickasha. They published The Chickasha Star, The Tuttle Times and The Minco Minstrel. In 1987, they purchased the Larned Publishing Company in Larned, Kansas. There they produced The Tiller and Toiler, a daily newspaper established in 1879. On September 1, 1993, they purchased the weekly Ellinwood (KS) Leader newspaper established in 1894. Along the way Marshall, not long out of high school and before he met Fran, borrowed money from the banker, Mr. Finney, purchased an airplane and began flying lessons in the summer of 1950. He soloed in August and obtained his private license in February of 1951. In 1982, he added a twin-engine rating. His love of flying lasted his entire life and he was honored as a Quiet Birdman. In 1955, Marshall married the former Frances Rose Reece, daughter of Bill and Elsie Reece of Anadarko. The couple raised two sons, Johnny and David, both graduates of Chickasha High School and active in the newspaper business. Marshall has maintained a Rotary Club membership since 1954, nine years with the Anadarko Club and the remaining years with the Chickasha club. He served the Chickasha club as president in 1969. In 1973-74, he served as Rotary International Governor of District 577. He served as Chairman of the Boy Scouts Stumbling Bear District in 1967-68. Marshall served on the board of the Oklahoma Press Association beginning in 1986. He served as President of the Oklahoma Press Association in 1994. Marshall was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist, Chickasha. He was preceded in death by his father, James Marshall Settle. Survivors include: Wife: Frances Settle of Chickasha; son and wife: Johnny and Paula Settle of Larned, Kansas; and son and wife: David and Anita Settle of Chickasha; six grandchildren: Katie, Lindsey, Kelly, Alana, Julie, and Peter; two great grandchildren: Logan, and Rhett Marshall; mother: Laura Settle of Anadarko; brothers and wives: Manly and Mary Settle and Ricky and Lola Settle of Anadarko; sister and husband: Doreen and New Gilliand of Boyd, Texas. Interment will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko. Memorial contributions may be made to the Chickasha Opportunity Workshop or the Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation. Services are under direction of the McRay Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.mcrayfuneral.com. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Creek County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/creek/creek.htm