Family, Friends & Fellow Officers Remember...

Patrolman Marshburn,
On today, the 60th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice for the citizens of the state of North Carolina. And to your Family and loved ones, I wish to extend my deepest sympathy.

BPA Mike Casey
United States Border Patrol(Retired)

September 19, 2024

Rest in peace always and know that your service and sacrifice will never, ever be forgotten by your law enforcement brethren.

Detective Cpl/3 Steven Rizzo
Delaware State Police (Retired)

September 19, 2020

Terrible tragedy and released from prison as well. Rest in peace Patrolman Marshburn.

Rabbi Lewis S. Davis

February 8, 2019

Met Jimmy in the fall of 1963, when we reported to the Institute Of Government in Chapel Hill for Patrol School. We roomed togetner for the first 6 weeks. Shared dreams and fears Mild mannered and caring person. A great friend for such a short time.

F/SGT Ward Kellum
NCSHP FRIEND

September 17, 2017

I grew up in Carolina Beach in the 50’s and 60’s and remember Jimmy Marshburn well. Although Jimmy was a few years older than I was he was like a big brother and would often come by the house and take me out riding in his car which was a big treat for a pre-teen back then.

In Dec. 1960 his father went missing after failing to come home late one night from work and it was believed that he had driven off the road into the Intracoastal Waterway at Snow’s Cut Bridge. I was there several days later when the divers brought up his father’s car from the murky waters. Being the oldest child and not one to shirk responsibility, Jimmy got a job driving a school bus to earn extra money for the family. That was the way Jimmy was - always looking out and taking care of others. And I’ll never forget how proud he was to get the job as dispatcher for the local Highway Patrol station. The last time we spoke he was counting the days until he was old enough to go to the highway patrol training center.

The one thing I remember most about Jimmy was his constant smile or grin. A really great guy.

Jerry Hardee

Jerry Hardee
childhood friend

February 21, 2011

Your heroism and service is honored today, the 139th anniversary of your death. Your memory lives and you continue to inspire. Thank you for your service. My cherished son Larry Lasater was a fellow police officer murdered in the line of duty on April 24, 2005 while serving as a Pittsburg, CA police officer.


Rest In Peace

Phyllis Loya

Anonymous

September 19, 2009

TROOPER MARSHBURN, YOU HAVE SERVED WELL. MAY GOD BLESS YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE. A HERO NOT BY HOW YOU DIED, BUT BY HOW YOU LIVED YOUR LIFE. MAY YOU REST IN PEACE. MAY GOD BLESS THOSE WHO STILL LOVE AND MISS YOU.

CHIEF RONNIE WATFORD-RET.
JEFFERSON POLICE DEPT,S.C.

September 19, 2007

Jimmy......

You always wanted to be a State Trooper. Even as far back as our late teens, you talked about it constantly when we hung around together at Carolina Beach during my summer vacations. You were one of the reasons I always had a terrific time as a visitor from "up North." I don't suppose that it hurt that our Moms grew up together. Then you got the job as clerk with the Highway Patrol, and you knew you were on your way to a career in law enforcement, just like you wanted.

Imagine my horror when I heard a TV announcer mispronounce your name and flash your picture on the screen in announcing your death on a Toledo station as I started to go to work one night. Your younger sisters and widowed mother were without a male provider, once again. I knew they were devastated.

Nonetheless, they persevered. Until she died, your Mom remained my mother's closest lifelong friend. Your little sisters are now gray or white haired, and all are getting by. What little hair I have left now is also gray, and I've retired and moved here to N.C., near where you grew up.

I suspect that your career choices and death in the line of duty have in some very subtle way deeply influenced my career decisions to this day. I heard this week of the line of duty death of my former next door neighbor and fellow officer from Toledo, and discovered this web site.

Once I found your memorial page, I had to leave you a tribute. After 33 years as a cop, I still think of my big, strapping friend, Jimmy, and the good times we had together. I wish we could have shared retirement as well. It'd be good to go fishing again.....

Dave

Lieutenant David L. Barkman
Toledo (OH) Police Department (retired)

February 24, 2007

Our community is truely a better place because of you and what you stood for, you did not lose your life, you gave it in service to others. A TRUE HERO you will never be forgotten trooper.

Detective Ben Smith
Red Springs Police Department

January 12, 2007

SEVERAL YEARS AGO MY FATHER TOLD ME ABOUT A GOOD FRIEND OF HIS THAT HE USED TO GO HUNTING AND SHOOTING WITH. HE SAID HIS NAME WAS JIMMY MARSHBURN. WHILE LISTENING TO MY FATHER I NOTICED THE SADNESS IN HIS FACE. HE WENT ON TO TELL ME THAT JIMMY HAD JOINED THE N.C. HIGHWAY PATROL AND THAT HE WAS KILLED IN A SHOOTOUT NEAR LUMBERTON. AFTER JOINING THE RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT, FELLOW OFFICERS TOLD ME OF ODMP. I FOUND TROOPER MARSHBURN. YOU ARE STILL MISSED BY MANY. MY DAD STILL THINKS OF YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE.

MASTER OFFICER DM FRISBEE
RALEIGH POLICE DEPARTMENT (DISTRICT 24)

November 7, 2006

The policeman stood and faced his God,which must always come to pass.
He hoped his shoes were shining just as brightly as his brass.
"Step forward now, policeman. How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To my church have you been true?
The policeman squared his shoulders and said.
"No, I guess I ain't because those of us who carry a badge can't always be a Saint."
I've had to work most Sundays
and at times my talk is rough,
and sometimes I've been violent,
because the streets are awfully tough.
But I never took a penny that wasn't mine to keep...
though I worked a lot of overtime when the bills got to steep.
And I never passed a cry for help
though at times I shook with fear,
and sometimes, God forgive me, I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place among the people here.
They never wanted me around except to calm their fear.
If you've a place for me here, Lord, it needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much, but if you don't...I'll understand"
There was a silence all around the throne where the Saints had often trod.
As the policeman waited quietly for the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, policeman.
You've borne you burdens well.
Come walk a beat on Heaven's streets.
You've done your time in Hell"

G. Houston
South Carolina

September 19, 2003

God Bless you for helping keep our State safe.

Officer
CMPD