Harriette Sargent Marshall

I Remember:

Her signature...I always loved it. Looking back, it personifies who she was to me; elegant, dramatic, a romantic sentimentalist (though far too dignified to offer that part of herself for general consumption) and, of course, exacting. She demanded the very best you had in you. There was no excuse for less than excellence.

She was a mentor, a mom, a best friend, a co-worker and head mistress of the "finishing school". I've always cherished the memory of the many late afternoons we spent together at the printers in Mission Beach, going over galley sheets, taking a turn at the linotype machine, laughing with the two crusty "old" men who put out our school paper the old-fashioned way; pulling letters from drawers of wooden font cases to build our headlines and running proofs for us on small hand presses while we struggled to avoid the printer's ink that was everywhere, on everything. The experience was a lot like that run-on sentence; a jumbled rush!

The lessons she taught me have been invaluable. I think it was Cam Lindberg who asked me at the reunion if "journalism class was anything I ever used afterwards". I have to say, "only every single day of my life in everything I've ever done." Her gifts to me were many. Of course I learned good writing skills, layout and design, interpersonal communication, salesmanship, and much more, but the personal life lessons she offered me were loving, humble, and generous and as a child, I didn't fully appreciate them until many years later. Now, I hold them close to me in fond remembrance of her many kindnesses.

She was truly a jewel among us.

Susan (Susi) McLane (m. Fredrick)

She met her husband, Theodore, at a football game. He was the manager of an opposing football team and she a hostess for the visiting team. They met again a few years later when both became teachers at San Diego High School. They were married 47 years until his death in 1983. They raised his daughter, Genevieve Marshall Gerstner, who passed away in 1991.

(Marshall) was a Red Cross Volunteer and ambulance driver during World War II. She served as a past President of the La Cadena Chaper of the San Diego Woman's Club and wrote the book, "Centennial History of the San Diego Women's Club" in 1992. She was an active member in the San Diego Historical Society, supported BPO Elks Lodge #168, a Native Daughter of the Golden West San Diego Parlor #208, as well as a member of the California Retired Teachers Association.

She is survived by grandchildren, Joseph and Catherine Gerstner, and great-grandchildren, Justin, Janelle, and Joshua. She will be missed by all. Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 9:00 a.m., Saturday, March 22, at St. Vincent de Paul, 4077 Ibis, in Mission Hills.

A "final cruise" with family and close friends will board at 1:00 p.m. at 1441 Shelter Island Drive at the Kona Kai Continental Club for her burial at sea. Donations may be made in her memory to the San Diego Chapter of the American Red Cross.