Rex Marshall

Unflappable announcer and program host who began his career on Boston radio in 1937. He was the 'voice' for the Reynolds Aluminum Company for twenty-five years, and he also announced for Esso gasoline, Auto-Lite spark plugs and Maxwell House coffee. In his final decades, his rich voice hosted one of the classiest of local radio shows on a station covering Dartmouth's tony hometown, Hanover, New Hampshire, where Rex hosted "Breakfast at the Hanover Inn," with interviews in the morning "coffee time." It was a great privilege for broadcasters to work for this always sharply dressed, superbly well spoken, tall, elegant gentleman. Rex was involved in the start-up of New York television station WPIX (Channel 11) in 1948, and he covered the Republican National Convention for the station that year; by 1949 he left to work freelance, then returned in late 1967 to anchor its 10 P.M. newscast, staying in that position until mid-1968. He was a resident of Woodstock, New York. In 1956 he purchased what became WNHV AM 910 in White River Junction, Vermont. While at his desk there on Tuesday, March 8th, 1983 he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. The next day he died at Veteran's Hospital in White River Junction. A memorial service was held in Hanover, New Hampshire on Friday, March 11th, 1983.