Clitus Harry Marvin III

News Death Notice

MARVIN III, Clitus Harry 85, died August 4, 2009 in Bruges, Belgium after suffering a heart attack on the ship Queen Victoria. Mr. Marvin was born July 7, 1924 in Urbana, Ohio to Clitus H. Marvin, Jr. and Lillian Seaschols Noell. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts in 1942 where he was captain of the golf team. He briefly attended Princeton University before joining the U.S. Navy where he served as an officer on a number of destroyers and other vessels during World War II. He earned his B. A. from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1948. Following college he worked for a number of years as a salesman for the W.H. Marvin Company in Urbana, Ohio, a family company specializing in prepared dates and mincemeats. In the late 1950s, Clitus began a new career thriving as a stockbroker with McDonald & Company, a Cleveland, Ohio securities firm. Clitus was an avid golfer, skier, piano player, and student of languages and the stock market throughout his life. He was an active member of Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield, OH. He is survived by his brother Charles N. Marvin of Wayzata, Minnesota, his sister Seascholls Starks of Louisville, Kentucky, his former wife Catharine Bieser of Dayton, Ohio, and their two children Clitus Harry Marvin IV and Courtenay Marvin Adams both of Jackson, Wyoming. He was much loved by his four grandchildren Lillian and Harry Marvin, Amelia and Cuyler Adams, all of Jackson, Wyoming. He will be much missed. Memorial services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday in Christ Episcopal Church at 409 East High Street in Springfield, Ohio. A viewing will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Thursday in Conroy Funeral Home at 1660 E. High Street in Springfield. Gifts in lieu of flowers may be made to the Springfield Museum of Art or Christ Episcopal Church of Springfield.