Marshall Thomas Slayton ’52

Marshall Thomas Slayton ’52, retired Navy captain of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, passed away on May 27, 2023, in Rye, New Hampshire. Marsh was born on May 1, 1931, in Manchester, New Hampshire. He graduated from High Mowing School in Wilton, New Hampshire, in 1948 and attended Dartmouth for three years prior to receiving a congressional appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated from Annapolis in 1955. In 1973 he also received a master’s in management from the University of Southern California. Shortly after graduation from Annapolis he married Patricia Winn and they had three children; their marriage ended after 13 years. Marsh was a career Navy office, serving for 28 years and retiring in 1983. He served as a line officer on several ships, mainly submarines. In 1970 he received a master’s in mechanical engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and was elected to the Sigma Xi Honor Society While at graduate school he met and married Lucy Sherman of Carmel, California. Following graduation he devoted the rest of his Navy career to submarine engineering and maintenance. Marsh and Lucy moved from Hawaii to Portsmouth in 1999. He tutored high school math from 2000 to 2011 in Portsmouth. He lost his wife of 47 years in 2015. He is survived by daughter Jane, sons Thomas and Ted, stepdaughter Laura, stepson Karl, four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.