Marshall missed by his Printex family

CHILLICOTHE – A man who worked for years to help those around him while building a Chillicothe staple business out of nothing passed away July 4.

Jeff Marshall, owner of Printex Same-Day Printing, will be missed by all who knew him.

“He was the kind of boss that if you had a problem, even if it was outside of work, he would help you out,” Gabriel Lung, production manager and flash press operator for Printex, said.

Lung began working for Marshall in 2001. He said he will remember Marshall as the man who had breakfast ready for he and his then 7-year-old son Josh at 6 a.m. for Josh’s first hunting trip on Marshall’s farm in Waverly.

“He took us to the tree stand where he thought we would have the best chance of seeing a deer,” Lung said. “My son missed, but we did see a deer. He (Marshall) drove all around to find us a deer for Josh to get. I think he was more disappointed than Josh.”

Marshall was named the Chillicothe Ross Chamber of Commerce’s 2012 Entrepreneur of the Year. He began the business, known then as Chillicothe Graphics, in 1976 in the living room of his and his wife’s home after selling his airplane to buy his first printing press, according to the Chillicothe Ross Chamber of Commerce.

By day, Marshall worked at BancOhio in corporate marketing in Columbus to get by, and returned home to print for his customers at night for the first five years of his business.

Chillicothe Graphics was renamed Printex Same-Day Printing when Marshall decided to move it to its current location on East Main Street.

From there, Lung said Marshall was always on the cutting edge of printing.

“He always strove to do the newest things here,” Lung said. “He had a real knack for knowing what was going to work.”

Amongst Marshall’s other attributes was a need to donate to those around him. Organizations like the Chillicothe Paints, Rock for Toys, Ross County United Way, the Ross County Humane Society, the Ross County National Rifle Association and fundraisers benefited from his work. According to the chamber of commerce, Marshall donated over $500,000 to the community.

“He was really quiet when it came to stuff like that,” Lung said. “He was never one to look for a pat on the back.”

Marshall leaves behind his wife Laura, children Jeffrey and Katherine and three grandchildren.

“We are really going to miss him,” Lung said. “It is going to be different not having around the shop every week.”