ASU remembers
Jocelyn Marshall Wallace
Jocelyn Marshall Wallace, 84, has passed away. She was the daughter of Clifford Benjamin Marshall, President of Standard Oil. Her formative years in India, Tucson, AZ and Canandaigua, NY gave her balanced but vivid perspectives of humanity, the environment and especially to the strength of family. She entered Syracuse University at the age of 15 and was still taking classes in Astronomy and Physics in her 40's. In 1948, she married Carl Peter Swartz, ambassador from Sweden and spent the following years in Stockholm and Paris. In 1958 she married Thomas Byron Gilchrist, Assistant U. S. District Attorney. She married Henry Brown Wallace, President of Pioneer Hybrid in 1980. Living in the high desert of Arizona and the Colorado Rockies, her quest in philanthropy and her battle for her own health began in earnest. She survived breast cancer, lung cancer and melanoma through alternative medicine as well as heart disease, hydroencephalitis and countless surgeries through standard medicine. At the same time she helped fund various causes including scientific research at ASU. She is survived by two daughters, four sons and five grandchildren.
October 26, 2012