Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Mike,

I have had the bittersweet pleasure of getting to know your wonderful wife. Bittersweet, because under normal circumstances, neither of us would have learned of Concerns of Police Survivors, nor had a need to become involved.

Rest in God's peace, sir; you will not be forgotten.

Brenda, daughter of Officer Cliff Miller
Rossford, Ohio, P.D., EOW 05/14/1966

January 26, 2007

I just want to thank you Officer Marshall for the service you gave the citizens of Omak. You made the ultimate sacrifice to protect those citizens,including ones who I really care about. That sacrifice will never be forgotten.May you rest in peace.

Jeff Moses
former Okanogan resident

November 28, 2006

Big Mike:

It has been 8 years and we just had a dedication of a memorial for fallen officers in Okanogan County. I can't believe the pain is still fresh...like yesterday. We miss you and still tell the "Mikey" stories, they make us smile. Just like they did when you were here with us. Thanks Mike, for being the guy you were/are.

friend/neighbor
Okanogan County

June 14, 2006

Eight years today.....

You're in a better place,
I've heard a thousand times.
And at least a thousand times I've rejoiced for you.
But the reason why I'm broken,
The reason why I cry,
Is how long I must wait to be with you.
I close my eyes and I see your face.
If home's where my heart is then I'm out of place.
Lord give me strength to make it through somehow.
I've never been more homesick than now.

M

March 26, 2006

Thank you Ofc. Marshall for your dedicated service and honorable sacrafice. Rest In Peace.

Ofc. Eric Chiang
San Francisco Police Department

December 9, 2005

Mike, The officers in Okanogan County, miss you so much. We are always thinking about you brother! Every time we drive by the location, we all stop and think about you and your family. Rest in Peace Brother.

July 27, 2005

Words on a page can't express how much you are still loved, every single day.

Mel

May 2, 2005

REST IN PEACE BROTHER YOUR A HERO.

SGT FOLEY
INGALLS PD (IN)

March 7, 2005

To the Family of Mike Marshall,
Even though this is 6-7 years later, I justd found this site and have to say something about that day, in the Brewster PD Patrol car in midst of all the other Patrol cars making the long journey up the hill.
I was a "99" Brewster Graduate and a Brewster PD Explorer. I knew Mike's son well at that time. I never thought a friend of mine could lose their father in something like that night. It was the first Police Officer's funeral that I attended, but was definately not the last. That day on the way to the cemetary, I made a career choice for my life. I knew Law Enforcement was for me. I thank you for the service you did in OC and the OPD, I wish there was more time for men like Mike to be on the earth. If he could touch me w/out knowing me, I know he could have touched so many more. Good luck Marshall's, God will look over you.

SSG Will Glover
USAF Security Forces

March 27, 2004

Mike, it's been over 3 years now, and thinking of that awful night still numbs me. The thoughts of your funeral, the overwhelming support showed by so many other agencies and officers still brings tears. I haven't been back to Omak since your death, but I could show anyone the telephone poll that so many people put flowers around to remember you. The alleyway in which you faced your last enemy will never change in my mind. It is there that we lost one of our best officers, and a great and close friend. When I would drive home from work, or any other time I would drive down the highway, I would always look at the tree they planted next to your burial plot. It was automatic. I couldn't drive by and not look.

And not quite a year ago, we lost another close friend and great officer in the agency I now work for. I'm sure you've met him, Officer Jason Cammack, unit 505. In a dispatchers bizzare and crazy world, the hardest thing is to lose an officer. No, to lose one of MY officers. To lose 2 of MY officers isn't any easier to deal with, except the experience to know what is to come and how to deal with it.

Losing you was hard, your funeral even harder. I'd say one of the worst things I've ever been through in my short 30 years of life. Then to go through it 2 years later. A third time is not acceptable, but inevitable.

I've made my decision to leave the radio room and follow in the footsteps of great men, like yourself and Jason and the thousands of other officers that have paid the ultimate price to do what they loved to do. I only hope that I can be 1/2 of the man you were.

Jerame Brown, Dispatcher
Former OCS dispatcher

I want all my brothers and sisters in blue to know that Mike was my mentor and he was a good cop.  Here is a poem that I wrote about Mike several weeks after his murder.

"Goodbye My Friend"

Today I say goodbye to a friend.  A friend that was always there to lend a hand.  To comfort, to hold and to listen.  Mikd was always there as a teacher and as a friend.  He corrected me when I was wrong and he praised me whaen I was right.  Mike was always optimistic about life and work.  He never ponderedon the little things in life, but always conquered the big things in life.  He taught me to be strong, but he also taught me to be compassionate.  Mike will be missed by all, but never be forgotten.  I say goodbye to you today my friend, but we will meet again.  For the Lord has called you home.  I do not fully understand why the Lord has called you home so soon my friend, but there is a reason.  Your death willl bring us all closer together,  I know your are looking down on us from heaven.  for the day will come when we all will meet again.  For the Lord has a plan for all of us.  We will all carry your legacy here on earth.  In the good times and the bad, I know you will be there.  Take care my friend!

Officer Mark Cole
Prosser P.D.

Mike,

Without you, I'd never be where I am today!!! You are missed, but not forgotten!


Don't grieve for me, for now I am free,
I am following the path GOD laid for me.
I took his hand when I heard him call,
I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day,
To laugh...to love... to work...to play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way,
I found peace at the close of the day.

If my parting has left a void,
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss,
Ah...these things I too will miss.

Be not burdened with time of sorrow,
I wish for you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My lifes been full, I savored much,
Good friends, good times, a loved ones touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all to brief,
Don't lengthen it now with undo grief.
Lift up your heart and share with me,
GOD wanted me now...He set me free.

Remember...to live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die

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