Marvin Marker

Wow! What a shock as well as a blast from the past. I marched with LBJCB in the fall of 1973. I marched the Hollywood Christmas parade twice. I joined at the age of 12. Marvin Marker and LBJCB helped me get through some of the hardest times of my life as a young girl. My Uncle Raul Saldaña marched as well playing the Ttumpet. I was a "pageantry" dancer and also carried the tall flags. R.I.P. Marvin Marker.

God be with you Marvin, till we meet again. Long practices, cold nights, hot days and uphill parades that have forged us all !! Good times, good friends and British Eight. Who can forget the Shrine performances, motels in Vegas and the bus fumes. Thanks for the hard work ethic you expected from all of us. We love you.

I drove for THE BAND for a couple of years back in the late 70's. I was always so proud to be associated with them. I still have two of their LP's.
Thank you Marvin for the opportunity to be with a great bunch of kids.
Joyce (Mathias) Waddell

Though it has been well over 50 years since I joined Marvin's LBJCB, I still think of Marvin and what a great man he was all the time. I'll never forget him.

And I still remember his fearsome glare and sometimes comical rolling of his eyeballs if he caught me ad-libbing or jazzing up anything we were playing. I think he secretly liked people jazzing things up once in a while but he wouldn't admit it lol.

Marvin and the band were definitely the highlights and some of the very...

I have stood with a few giants in my life; Marvin Marker was my first. He was a friend; he was a mentor; he was a driving force. I am a better person because of him.

In 1959, I left the Long Beach Youth Band and joined Marvin's band. I wanted to be in the best band in the land and that was the Long Beach Junior Concert Band. I remember Marvin as a nice guy. He always had an open door policy at his home where a bunch of us crazies would show up unexpectedly and there would be Marvin with cokes and snacks for everyone. Thank goodness he also had a great sense of humor when we stuffed an entire pail of stinky, slimy grunion fish into his front door mail...

I lived next door to Marvin for 13 years. He always had a smile on his face and was very optimistic about all things. My very first Halloween as his neighbor I remember there were kids lined up to get to his house. After waiting my turn, I found out the reason why; he gave king size candy bars. Both my family and I were deeply saddened by his passing and we still remember him fondly. He not only impacted my life with his generosity, kindness, and patience but the lives of many people all...

Marv and I served together in the USAF reserve at March AFB between 1960 and 1965. We were members of the 24th Medical Service Squadron Medical Laboratory. When I knew him he had the band and was working at Disneyland. He was a real nice guy. Rest in Peace Marv.

I was first tried out in front of mrvin 1967 and i was a nervous wreck until Marvin told me to just calm down and play. I did and I made the band in the trombone section. Will never forget that part of my life.