Mariners Cove Village came in sixth in the InterVillage Golf Challenge. Way to go!
Insert Mariners Cover photo 3 with caption: The Mariners Cove Village represented their community well in the InterVillage Golf Challenge.
Speaking of golf, congratulations go out to Stephen Fletcher who had a hole-in-one on #9 with a 5 wood. Good job Stephen!
music for the Easter service.
There were over 100 people who attended the Easter Worship service at Picnic Pointe on a beautiful but windy morning. Organized by Janice Purse for the fourth year, the music team was Jack and Janice Purse, with Rick Brown from Ariel. For the second year, Cindi and Joe Ferrini from Steamboat delivered a wonderful message.
Insert Mariners Cove photo 2 with caption: Rick Brown with Jack and Janice Purse (from left) provided the music for the Easter service.
The newly formed MCV Social Committee for the season 2025-26 is Janice Purse, Tanya Glattly, Grace Berg and Rachel Goldberg.
A new Habitat for Humanities home was dedicated recently in North Fort Myers. This home was built through the generosity of the legacy of Betty and Tom Marshall.
The Marshalls moved to Mariners Cove Village in December 2001 from Sabal Springs where they had lived for three years. Tom and Betty both passed away last year.
wonderful legacy.
Betty worked as a hair stylist for 15 and a half years and then, for another 15 a half years, as the first female, joined Tom to work at Pittsburgh Plate Glass where they made aircraft windshields. Tom, who worked there for 17 years, ran a machine to defrost and defog windshields.
Insert Mariners Photo Cove photo 1 with caption: Betty and Tom Marshall left a wonderful legacy.
The Marshalls married in Newport, KY on March 9, 1960, right after Tom coached his last basketball game for the Cincinnati Royals. Tom played five years, two in the military, and was a player/coach for six months and a coach for a year. Tom was the top draft choice for the Rochester Royals in 1954. He moved with them to the Cincinnati Royals, was traded to the Detroit Pistons, then was brought back to Cincinnati. They purchased a bar there that they ran for three-plus years.
Betty and Tom were boaters and fishermen in St. James City and in Mariners Cove. They both took up golf. Betty sold 57 of her oil paintings and Tom discovered the art of Intarsia, making many beautiful pieces of woodworking and working on jigsaw puzzles with up to 1,000 pieces.
