Life down on the farm has been good for former BJ photographer Tom Marvin. So has 26 years of marriage to Kay Ann Shaffer Marvin, a Coshocton gal, as of Sept. 30. 

They met while working in the Ridgewood school district – Tom as transportation supervisor and Kay as school secretary – before his 2001 retirement.

Tom and Kay live on their Guernsey County farm near Kimbolton, Ohio and Salt Fork Lake State Park.

Tom and Kay have been to every state and have taken their camper on 3,000-mile trips, with Tom strumming his guitar at nights around the campfire. The last state was Alaska, where, Tom writes, "We took a slide-inn truck camper and traveled 41 days seeing nearly everything in Alaska."

Tom and Kay have seven children between them.

His are Steve Marvin, a bank assistant vice president who lives in Cambridge, Ohio; Brian Marvin, who lives in Worthington, Ohio 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.

Former Monroe Township trustee Tom and Kay have eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Former BJ tech Mark Kovach lives on an adjacent farm to Tom and Kay.

You can congratulate Tom via email at his new address, tmarvin7471@gmail.com or phone him at (740) 498-7471 or drop him a note at:

Tom Marvin

74321 Birch Road

Kimbolton, OH 43749

Tom has the same sentiment that orders have forward to me about the BJ Alums blog: "Nice to read about our old friends."

Indeed, Tom. That's why the number of hits on this blog spike when there's an article about a former BJ employee.