Franklin Marshall Case

Franklin Marshall Case September 9, 1917 - April 10, 2005 Franklin Marshall Case, age 87, of Troy, PA, died peacefully at the Troy Community Hospital on April 10, 2005. He was born at St Joseph's Hospital in Elmira, New York, on September 19, 1917, the only child of Anna M. (Bottcher) and George Frank Case of Troy, PA. Marshall graduated from Troy High School in 1934. He studied Forestry at Penn State University at the Mont Alto campus and received his BS in 1938. On August 2, 1941, he married Jean Elizabeth Rishel of Farmers Mills, PA, whom he met at college. She preceded him in death in 2000. Before their marriage he restored the Fall Brook Road house built by his great-great-grandfather, Elihu Case. They lived there for fifty-nine years. Marshall Case operated a sawmill on Fall Brook Road in Troy and, upon his father's retirement, became the president of F.P. Case & Sons, a general contracting and hardware firm. He served in World War II where he drove a tank in Italy and is a member of the VFW and American Legion. He is a 32 degree Mason and Past Master of Trojan Lodge # 306. He attended the Olde Covert Church on Armenia Mountain. He served on the board of directors of several local organizations including the Alan F. Pierce Memorial Library, the Bradford County Heritage Association and Farm Museum of Troy, PA, the Robert Packer Hospital, the First Bank of Troy, and the Glen wood Cemetery Association. He was a member of Rotary, a Paul Harris fellow, and he and his wife hosted many foreign exchange students through Rotary International. As a boy, Marshall traveled with his parents across country in a Model A Ford. Marshall was keenly interested in early American history and industries, especially logging and lumbering. He restored a nineteenth-century log house that he relocated from Liberty, PA, to Fall Brook Road. He was a charter Member of the Penn-York Lumbermen's Club, and one of the founders of, and a contractor for, the Lumbermen's Museum in Denton Hill, PA. For many years he was master of ceremonies for the annual Woodsmen's Carnival in Cherry Springs, PA. By invitation of the Smithsonian Institution, he organized a logging and lumbering exhibit on the Washington Mail for the Bicentennial Celebration, and, for the Smithsonian's oral history program, traveled to Idaho to interview loggers. He was an avid bridge player, reader, conversationalist and member of the Armenia Mountain Debating Society and the Genealogical Society. He is survived by their four children, Sally Anne Case of Millheim, PA; Marcia Elizabeth Case of Aaronsburg, PA; William Rishel Case of New Cumberland, PA, and Nathan Marshall Case and his wife Joy (Ayres) of Troy, PA; seven grandchildren, Melissa Jean Case, Stuart William Case and his wife Sue, Lydia Anne (Case) and her husband Keith Bury, Lynda Marie (Case) and her husband John Beers, Juliet Elizabeth Daring, Matthew Nathan Case and his wife April, Danielle Marie Case, and Leis Rename Case, and three great-grand daughters, Rebecca Mae Spencer, Sarah Marie Bury and Allison Jean Beers. Family and friends are invited to the Gerald W. Viceroy Funeral Home, 110 West Main Street, Troy, PA, 16947 on Thursday, April 14, 2005, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM; and also on Friday, April 15, 2005, from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM with the funeral service being held immediately following visitation. The Reverend Kenneth Maple will officiate. Interment will be held at Glenwood Cemetery following the service, then there will a time for fellowship and refreshments at the Olde Covert Church on Armenia Mountain. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to the Bradford County Heritage Association, Farm Museum, P.O. Box 265, Troy, PA, 16947, or to a charity of one's choosing.