Birtie Marsh of Albany died on Tuesday, March 20, 2012. She was 97. Born Birtie Elizabeth Case on August 12, 1914, she was the daughter of Roy Case and Lillian Spaht. She spent her childhood in King City and St. Joseph and on the farm of her grandfather, Otto Spaht in Northwest Missouri. Birtie lived four years in Omaha, Nebraska doing domestic work while getting her high school diploma. In 1933 she returned to Gentry County where she met and married Robert Lee Marsh. They lived on his mother's farm in the Gartin School district south of Darlington. Robert preceded her in death on August 9, 1990. In 1971, Birtie moved to an apartment upstairs in her present home in Albany and became the cook at Plainview Nursing Home where she worked for several years. In retirement, she was active in the Albany Senior Center, the Eastern Star and women's missionary group of the Albany Baptist Church. She was pianist for the Eastern Star and she played for birthday parties that the missionary group organized at Golden Living Center-Colonial Manor. Music was Birtie's life and she continued learning. At age 80 she learned to play ragtime. Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" was her favorite and she was always willing to share her talent. She is survived by two daughters, Elizabeth Clarke, Coconut Grove, FL; Anna Pearson/ Schloss of New York City; one grandson, Samuel Wennberg and his wife Lola, Doylestown, PA and three great-granddaughters, Claire, Lenna and Maren Wennberg.