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American novelist (1914–1983)

For other people with the same name, see Katherine Marshall.

Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd (September 27, 1914 – March 18, 1983)^[1] was an American author of nonfiction, inspirational, and fiction works.

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She was the wife of well-known minister Peter Marshall.

Biography

Marshall was born in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1914.^[1][2] She was the daughter of the Reverend John Ambrose Wood and Leonora Whitaker Wood.^[1] From the age of nine until her graduation from high school, Marshall was raised in Keyser, West Virginia,^[1] where her father served as pastor of a Presbyterian church from 1924 to 1942.^[1]

While a junior at Agnes Scott College, she met Peter Marshall, marrying him in 1936.^[1] The couple moved to Washington, D.C., where her husband served as pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church and Chaplain of the United States Senate.

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