Patty Lee Marsh

Patty Lee Marsh was a wife, mother, grandmother and artist from Struthers, Ohio, remembered by her family and community as a warm, generous presence whose love for the people around her defined her life. She was not a public figure in the conventional sense, having no Wikipedia page or broad media profile, but her death was reported by local Ohio outlets and funeral homes, and this page draws on those published obituaries.

She was born on February 6, 1954, in Struthers, Ohio, the daughter of Beverly and Bob Raybuck. She grew up in Struthers and attended Struthers High School, where she met Edward Marsh, who would become her husband. The couple married at St Nicholas Church in Struthers and had recently marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary. After high school, she went on to study at The Pittsburgh Art Institute, graduating as a trained artist with a lasting interest in sketching and drawing that she kept up throughout her life.

Family was the center of Patty's life. She and Edward raised two daughters, Katie and Maggie, and in time she became a grandmother, known to her grandchildren Harper and Declan as Gigi. Much of the family's time together was spent at a cottage and later a lake house, places she treasured for the long hours of conversation and laughter they brought with extended family. Outside her family life, she was known as an enthusiastic and knowledgeable sports fan, following the Dallas Cowboys, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Cleveland Guardians and Ohio State's Buckeyes with a depth of knowledge that, by her family's account, often exceeded that of anyone else in the room.

Patty Lee Marsh died on Monday, October 5, 2026, at the age of 72. No cause of death has been made public in any of the reports or obituaries published so far, and this page will be updated if that changes. Her death was first reported through an obituary published by the Davidson-Becker Funeral Home of Struthers, which was carried by Legacy.com and by the Mahoning Valley outlet MyValleyTributes on October 8, 2026, three days after she died.

Her family has arranged a time of gathering for family and friends to come together in her memory. In the days since her death, tributes from those who knew her have focused less on public achievement than on her personal qualities: her capacity for making the people around her feel loved, and the lasting mark she left through simple, consistent kindness.