Tom Marvin still barn-building

Former BJ photographer Tom Marvin, when he isn’t traveling thousands of miles through Canada, Mexico and the United States or strumming the guitar for more than six decades, builds barns on his farm near Salt Fork State Park.



Tom Marvin (inset & on right at barn)

As for his third barn-building, on son Brian's property near Johnstown, Ohio, Tom explains:  

“My two sons, Steve and Brian, and I did almost all of it. We had help from my son-in-law Craig Geese and my brother-in-law Bob Lecraft putting up the roof trusses.

“A real family affair, even my wife and daughter-in-law helped at times. This is the third barn that I have built, two of them on our farm near Salt Fork.”

Tom and wife Kay Ann Shaffer Marvin of Coshocton live on a farm in Guernsey County, just north of Salt Fork State Park, near I-77 and north of Cambridge, and is a former Monroe Township trustee.
 
They met when Tom was transportation supervisor and Kay was a school secretary for the same school district. They will celebrate their 26th wedding anniversary Oct. 1.



Tom and wife Kay have driven 3,000 miles along the Gulf Coast and up through Appalachia and another 10,000 miles, most of it in Alaska, by spending months in their campers. Tom retired from the BJ in 2001.

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 former Hoover High School English and journalism teacher Pam McCarthy, with a son, Jackson Marvin Stevens.

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 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

Their neighbor is Mark Kovack, who handles computers for the BJ.