Standing Room Only at GMHS Memorial for Richard Marsh, 16

Falls Church News-Press | Nicholas F. Benton

A standing room only assembly was held in the George Mason High School auditorium in Falls Church Sunday afternoon celebrating the life of Richard (Jack) Marsh, 16, who died last week. There, it was announced that the annual Thanksgiving youth basketball tournament of the Hoops for Youth Foundation will henceforth be named for Marsh because of the positive impact he had on all who knew him growing up in the Falls Church City School system.

Marsh, who died suddenly from complications of a heart-lung disorder, was a linebacker on the 2009 Mason varsity football team, grew up in the Falls Church schools and participated in a full range of sports, including Little League, the youth basketball programs of the F.C. Recreation Department and Mason lacrosse.

Present at Sunday's celebration were about a dozen of his former coaches and scores of his former teammates, along with an auditorium filled with his classmates and teachers over the years in Falls Church.
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