Richard Folsom Marple

October 16, 1910 – January 10, 20

Richard Folsom Marple, retired United States Army Colonel and retired employee of the Internal Revenue Service, passed away in San Antonio, Texas on January 10, 2013 surrounded by his loving family. He was 102 years old. Alert and active until almost the end of his life, Richard was a humble man never heard to say a cross word, generous, deeply thoughtful of others, and loved and revered by all those who knew him. Born in Seattle, Washington, on October 16, 1910, Col. Marple spent his childhood in Seattle and Mercer Island. He was the youngest son of Lucius Elliot and Martha Folsom Marple’s five children, Warren Hilliard Marple, Elliot Marple, Catharine Thayer Marple Webber, and Marcia Tracy Marple Weston, who all preceded him in death. Col. Marple graduated from the University of Washington, and in April 1941, he was called to active duty in the U.S. Army and serve in the Quartermaster Corps during WWII. In 1946, he returned to Seattle and continued serving with the U.S. Army Officers Reserve Corps and was employed in the Federal Excise Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service until 1970. In 1974 he moved to San Antonio, Texas. He was preceded in death by his wife of 45 years, Marjorie Elizabeth Turner Marple. Survivors include a daughter, Gloria Sowell and son-in-law David Sowell, of Uvalde, Texas, a granddaughter, Monica Bowden and her husband Eric Bowden, great grandchildren Andrew Richard Oshiro, Danielle Nicole McVarish, great-great granddaughter Paige Courtney Craig, and great grand nephew John Stowers and his wife Mary Stowers, all of San Antonio, and many nieces and nephews.

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