Catching up with . . . Tom Marvin

Former Beacon Journal photographer Tom Marvin lives on a farm in Guernsey County, just north of Salt Fork State Park and surrounded by trees packed into the countryside, and is winding up eight years as a

Monroe Township trustee – he didn’t run for re-election -- before he and wife Kay head for Florida and an 11-day January cruise in the Caribbean.

Tom and Kay also have traveled to Hawaii, Canada and often to Mexico and have been to every state except Alaska, and that’s on their bucket list. “We are thinking about a trip to England and would like to go through the ‘Chunnel’ to Paris,” Tom writes.

“My wife,” Tom writes, “is Kay Ann Shaffer from Coshocton. We both worked for the same school district before we retired. I was Transportation Supervisor and she was a school secretary. We have been married 21 years.”

Former BJ photography department chief Bill Hunter found Tom for me after I asked for his help. Tom’s email to Bill:

WOW !!! Nice to hear from you.

I am still at tmarvin@sota-oh.com. It is fun to hear from all of those I used to work with at the Beacon. My neighbor is a Beacon Journal employee and drives 80 miles every day.

I am married to Kay. We are both retired and we travel a bit. We have been in every state except Alaska, and we are planning a trip there now. We have seven kids between us and nine grandkids, two great-grandkids.

I have been retired since 2001 and loving every minute of it. I have had an amazing life, both before and after my Beacon Journal years. I would love to see you sometime. Please feel free to contact me anytime. We have kids in Louisiana, Florida, California and Ohio, so we may not respond right away, but we will get back to anyone who calls or e-mails us.

Our address is

74321 Birch Rd
Kimbolton,Oh 43749
Phone 740 498 7471

I would love to see you sometime,
Tom

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At my request, Tom provided additional information.

Tom’s neighbor who works at the BJ, “a computer person,” is Mark Kovack. “They bought the land next to our farm 3 or 4 years ago,” Tom writes. “They built a new house and barn and have lived here full-time for the last 3 years.”

Tom and Kay have seven children between them. His are Steve Marvin, a bank assistant vice president who lives in Cambridge; Brian Marvin, who lives in Worthington and is a Reynoldsburg police detective; Misty Bellon, a registered nurse living in Eunice, Louisiana, who is married with a son, Nick; and Beth Marvin Stevens, a Los Angeles attorney, from Tom’s marriage to former BJ staffer and retired Hoover High School English and journalism teacher Pam McCarthy.

Kay’s children are Tim Wilson, an electric company forester in Florida; Debi Geese, who lives in Fresno, Ohio and is married with two children; and Brett Wilson, a contractor in Coshocton.

Tom and Kay have eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Click on the headline to see a 1974 photo of Tom Marvin with Tom and Kay Suchan and Mickey and Suzanne Porter at the opening of the Richfield Coliseum, then-new home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Coliseum replaced a cornfield and was demolished after the Cavs moved to downtown Cleveland in what now is called Quicken Loans Arena.

Click on Tom Marvin's email address highlighted in orange if you want to drop him a note.