David Marcial
March 15, 1946 - Sept. 10, 2024
David Marcial, a much loved father, friend, and musician left this plane of existence on September 10, 2024. After a difficult seven month battle with an aggressive brain tumor David was finally able to rest, surrounded by love and music in his final moments.
David was born in Peterborough, England on March 15th 1946, to English mother, Sheila Lavinia Catmull and Puerto Rican father, Torrido Marcial who met during World War II. David and his brother Jack emigrated to the US with Sheila after the war. He grew up in New York City and later in upstate New York where his sister Jayme was born. His many professions included oil rig worker, teacher, taxi driver (Chicago, New York, Seattle) and others but in the last 30 years of his life he was proud of his long career as a phlebotomist. He worked in many contexts from the hospital neonatal intensive care unit at Swedish to in person home exams.
More than work, David’s life was shaped by social movements and his untiring and sometimes unrelenting commitment to seeking truth and justice in an unjust world. He read everything, his shelves were full of books on the environment, the economy, the military industrial complex, histories of racism and colonialism
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