VICTOR W. AND ELEANORE B. [SUCHA] MARSHALL
Victor Whitfield Marshall, son of Charles and Mary Lundak Marshall,
was born November 3, 1897, in Niobrara. He grew up in the retail
merchandise business, his father having established a general store
in Niobrara some years earlier.
On December 26, 1922, he married Eleanore B. Sucha. The daughter of
Josef and Anna Souhrada Sucha was born in Verdigre March 17, 1898.
After graduation from Verdigre High School, she attended Wayne State
College and taught school in Niobrara and Verdigre. The couple had
two children, Mrs. Leo (Mary Anne) Soderholm (deceased) and Charles
J.
After their marriage the couple operated grocery stores in Verdel
and Spencer before establishing Marshall’s Store in Verdigre in
1926. The business was located first on Lot 10 of Block 16, now the
north part of the Jedlicka Hardware Hank complex, and then in the
large building on Lots 7 and 8 of Block 15. V. W. bought this
property along with the bank property during the depression. He
operated Marshall’s Store in the store building from 1937 until his
retirement in 1968.
Marshall was one of the men who formed the Verdigre Co-operative
Credit Association, which brought banking back to Verdigre in 1935.
In the fifties and sixties, he was president and major stockholder
of the Bank of Verdigre, formed upon the liquidation of the Verdigre
Co-operative Credit Association. After relinquishing the position
and majority of stock to his son Charles J., Whitfield remained as
Chairman of the Board.
A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the American Legion, of
the Masonic Chapter at Niobrara, the Improvement Club (in its
several incarnations) and of the Verdigre Development Corporation.
He served for many years on the Board of Education.
Eleanore Marshall was active in civic affairs. In her later years
she devoted much time and energy to collecting material for and
developing the genealogy of both her family and that of her
husband’s.
Eleanore died December 13, 1972. V. W. Marshall’s health continued
to decline after his wife’s death and he spent some months in a
nursing home before his death on November 27, 1975.
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