By John Sellars
This month’s 50 for 50 honoree has been a great help to the museum and the community.Gwen Marshall grew up in Jackson, Mississippi and then Memphis, Tennessee where she graduated from Hamilton High School in 1966.An only child, both of her parents worked for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Her father was a chef. Her mother was a registered nurse.She dreamed of all her life of becoming a teacher. She heard about what was then called Southwest Missouri State College and came to Springfield and enrolled in 1967. She married and dropped out of college and raised her four children while working and attending college courses when she could.
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