– On Friday afternoon, deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a residence located in the 200 block of Colfax in the unincorporated area of Griffith. When they arrived, they discovered three individuals who had been shot. It was determined that two of the persons had passed away at the scene, while the third individual was transported to the hospital due to being in severe condition. Both of the males were identified by the Lake County Coroner’s Office as Marshall Lawson, Jr., who was 69 years old and from Hammond, and Robert Secviar, who was 53 years old and from Griffith.
The preliminary findings suggest that both men died as a result of gunshot wounds sustained in a homicide; however, the reason for their deaths has not yet been conclusively established. According to the authorities, the third person who passed away was identified as John Stefanich, who was 67 years old and from Highland. The authorities did not disclose the initial manner of death, despite the fact that it is suspected that he died as a result of gunshot wounds having been sustained. For example, she was a member of the Chicago Yacht Club and the New York Yacht Club, both of which were among the many groups she was involved with in the different places she lived.
The Country Club of Virginia, the Biddeford Pool Yacht Club in Maine, The Storm Trysail Club, and the Hamble River Sailing Club in the United Kingdom, as well as the Ida Lewis Yacht Club in Newport, Rhode Island, were among the clubs that she was in membership with. She has been a one-design racing and blue sea sailor for her whole existence. She has competed in a number of offshore races in New England, cruised from Bermuda to Connecticut, sailed in a partial circumnavigation from Bermuda to the Marquesas in 1983, and competed in a number of Chicago to Mackinac Races.
She was the Women’s National Champion in Solings at the 1991 Adams Cup, which was held in San Francisco. She was also responsible for promoting women’s sailing on both the national and international levels through participation in a number of regattas. Throughout the course of her thirty-year marriage to her late husband, “Pete” Lawson, she worked with international teams to manage sailing events in team and ocean racing regattas in the Solent, Caribbean, Newport, Sardinia, and Tenerife. She also partnered with foreign teams to manage sailing events.
Between the years 2005 and 2015, she served as the Secretary of the International Maxi Class Association, where she was responsible for arranging regattas that were held at the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Sardinia. During the time that she resided in her stunning home on the lake at Pojac Point in Rhode Island, and up to the time that she passed away, she was a member of the Perennial Planters Garden Club, Providence. In addition, she was the Zone II Chairman and Recording Secretary of the Garden Club of America.
In addition to that, she served as the chief executive officer of the Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island. As someone who has played golf for her entire life, she has fond memories of playing at the Country Club of Virginia with her family and friends when she was younger, as well as at Royal Dornoch and other courses in Scotland, and at her most recent residence in Florida. Additionally, while Marshall was residing in Florida, she continued a program in which she and her friends and neighbors planted more than three hundred ornamental orchids in the trees that were located at the entryway to the condominiums.
Those who are left behind include her sister, Ann Coale Souder, who resides in Newport, Rhode Island; her brother, Basil W.C. Souder, who resides in Yarmouth, Maine, and his wife, Jay; her stepdaughter, Sara Lawson Viener, and her son-in-law, Adam Viener; her grandchildren, Addison, Riley, and Jolie Viener, all of Reston, Virginia; her nephew, Coale Souder and his wife, Lana, who reside in Chicago; and her step-siblings, Bill, John, and Lucy Correll.
