Harry Clifford Marshall, 97, passed away November 14, 2010 at Westhills Village Health Care, Rapid City, South Dakota. He was born April 30,1913 to pioneer parents Harry A. and Jessie [Ferguson) Marshall. His grandfather, Charles Marshall, was one of the first settlers to the area and helped lay out the streets of Rapid City, then Dakota Territory. The family operated Marshall Brickyard and furnished bricks for numerous original Rapid City buildings. Harry attended Rapid City schools and the South Dakota School of Mines. As a youth he spent summers working on the Madison Ranch near Nemo with his friend. Gene Madison. He also worked in drug stores and department stores while growing up. After he finished school he worked for Brown Swiss Dairy and operated a Standard Oil service station in Belle Fourche. He then started working for Dakota Power Company, now Black Hills Power and Light. In 1936 Harry met his wife, Mrgaret Scott, from Bottineau, North Dakota. She graduated from North Dakota State University and moved to Rapid City to work with the South Dakota Soil Conservation Service. They were married May 22,1937. While working with the power company he learned to fly, obtaining his commercial pilot's license. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II began, he obtained his pilot instructor's license and was commissioned as an officer in the Army Air Corp Training Command. He went to California where he trained Army Air Corp cadet pilots. The later part of the war he spent in the Air Transport Command in the China, Burma, India (CBI) theater flying "The Hump" operations. After the war. Harry and Margaret returned to Rapid City and took over the Halley Airport located north of Rapid City where North Middle School and Rushmore Mall are now located. They operated Marshall Flying Service, which consisted of a flight instruction school, aircraft sales and repair, crop spraying and air ambulance and charter service from 1946 to 1958. Interstate 90 was constructed and caused the closure of the airport in l958. Harry joked that he went from the flying business to the real estate business at this time. For a few years after the closure of the airport he operated Rapid City Muzac business and then went work for West River Electric Association as the Branch Manager of the Rapid City office. He retired from there in 1978. Harry and Margaret had one daughter, Patricia (Marshall) Dewey of Rapid City. As a child she often accompanied Harry on short airplane flights. As a family they spent countless hours enjoying the Black Hills horseback riding or snowmobiling. They were also involved in showing Quarter horses and rodeos. He was an avid outdoorsman and sportsman as he enjoyed all kinds of hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and horseback riding, taking numerous trips around the United States and Canada. One of Harry's greatest sources of joy and pride was his grandchildren. He shared his love of the Black Hills with them, taking them fishing, horseback riding, and snowmobiling when they were growing up. He also was so proud of their rodeo accomplishments. He was also extremely pleased to be a great grandfather to their 3 great grandchildren. Harry and Margaret were married for 51 years, until she passed away in 1988 to breast cancer. Throughout their marriage they worked as partners. Harry was active in numerous civic and fraternal organizations: Rapid City Planning Commission, Pennington County Planning Commission, Rapid City Chamber of Commerce, Western Pennington County Conservation District, Civil Air Patrol, Airplane Owners and Pilots Association, National Rifle Association, American Quarter Horse Association, First Congregational Church, Range Days Board of Directors, Black Hills Boots and Saddle Club, Black Hills Trail Ride and Black Hills Snowmobile Club. He was one of the founders and charter member of the Western South Dakota Buckaroos and the Custer Trail Ride and would often be the "Trail "Boss" leading the rides. He was also a member in the Rapid City Elks Lodge, Masonic Lodge, Naja Shrine Air Patrol and Naja Shrine Horse Patrol, and the Veteran's of Foreign Wars. Harry is survived by his daughter, Patricia Dewey, Rapid City: two grandchildren, Todd Marshall Dewey and his wife Susan, Box Elder, SD and Tonya (Dewey)Nicolaisen and her husband, Schuyler, Phoenix, Arizona; three great-grandchildren, Tate Marshall Dewey, Box Elder, SD and Shae Lyn and Shelby Ann Nicolaisen, Phoenix, AZ. Also surviving are nieces and nephews: Sally (John) Talley, Keystone, JoAnn (William) Olsen, Rapid City, Rebecca (Larry) Carson, Colorado, Barbara (Andy) Knight and Dr. Arthur (Barb) Lampert, Rapid City. Harry was preceded in death by his parents, an older brother, Charles B. Marshall, his wife Margaret and his companion in later years, Betty Ranney. Visitation will be 5:00 to 7:00 Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 at Osheim & Schmidt Funeral Home in Rapid City. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, November 24, at the First Congregational Church, 1200 Clark St., Rapid City, at 1:30PM with burial at Black Hills National Cemetery. A memorial has been established.