A Community Servant

Originally printed in the Muncie Star, March 19, 1963

Dr. Lloyd C. Marshall, Mt. Summit's beloved physician and leading citizen, is dead at the age of 75.

The "country doctor" in the fullest sense of the word, Dr. Marshall served the people of Mt. Summit and a much wider territory for 50 years. As a young man of 25 he began practice in his native county and for the rest of his life devoted himself to the profession.

In an interview some years ago Dr. Marshall disclosed he had traveled by horse and buggy, had used seven Model T Fords and an assortment of other cars in carrying on his practice. During World War II when physicians were scarce on the home front he covered a much wider territory and on one trip traveled 140 miles. Just this winter during the bitterly cold weather Dr. Marshall recalled the severe winter of 1935-36. On the coldest day of that period he delivered three babies, all of them in homes.

A farm boy, Dr. Marshall was born near Blountsville, was graduated from Blountsville High School and went on to Indiana University for his A.B. and M.D. degrees. After a year's internship at an Indianapolis hospital he established practice in Mt. Summit in 1913. Two years later he married a young nurse, Miss Bernice Hoy, whom he had met while he was interning. He and Mrs. Marshall reared their family of four in Mt. Summit.

In 1954 when the people of the community celebrated the town's one hundredth anniversary they dedicated the centennial booklet to Dr. Marshall who "for nearly half century has unselfishly ministered to the bodies and spirits of most of our citizens."

"He has been physician, advisor and friend to hundreds, and as a man he has been forthright example to all," the booklet said.

Such a tribute from his friends and fellow citizens, people who had known him many years, well summed up the good life and dedicated services of a man who prided himself on being a country doctor.